RIO DE JANEIRO, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Brazil has surpassed a record 5 million cases of dengue so far this year, with nearly 3,000 confirmed deaths from the disease, the Ministry of Health said Tuesday. According to the most recent data, 5,145,295 probable cases of dengue have been regist...
Dengue epidemic hits Rio de JaneiroMICHAEL ASTOR
Municipal health workers and volunteers are seen in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb. 7, 2024. Local public health officials in Rio have been scouring the city's neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay ...
Destination Expert for Rio de Janeiro 36,249 posts 139 helpful votes 5. Re: Dengue news Feb 24, 2024, 1:18 PM Save “Dengue: the situation is ‘high risk’ in the capital of Buenos Aires and cases are growing in the province of Buenos Aires. The outbreak of the disease contin...
A health worker prepares a dose of vaccine against dengue at the Super Carioca Vaccination Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb. 23, 2024. Brazil on Feb. 9 launched its vaccination campaign against dengue fever in the Federal District, targeting 521 municipalities nationwide identified as pr...
Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend to the ever-growing needs of its
Dengue virus type 3 was isolated for the first time in the country as an indigenous case from a 40 year-old woman presenting signs and symptoms of a classical dengue fever in the municipality of Nova Iguau, State of Rio de Janeiro. This serotype has been associated with dengue haemorrhagic...
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RIO DE JANEIRO , Jan . 23 ( Xinhua ) - - At least 794 people in Brazil died of the mosquito-borne diseases dengue , chikungunya and the Zika virus in 2016 , the Ministry of Health said on Monday y .
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Genetically modified mosquitoes, released in Brazil by British company Oxitec, have succeeded in reducing cases of dengue by 91 percent in a year, according to official sources on Thursday. Oxitec breeds genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to combat ...