The Ministry of Health has alerted this Wednesday of the moderate risk of dengue in Spain. Specifically, the report published by the Health Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center (CCAES) indicates that they may appear cases in Ibiza between the months of May and November.
Dengue is a female mosquito-borne viral disease of the species Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus which, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), has spread to many countries in recent years.
The disease can present asymptomatically. Specifically, between 40 and 80% of infections are asymptomatically, according to a protocol of the Community of Madrid against dengue. When symptoms do appear, the clinical course is mild, although around 5% of cases can progress to severe dengue.
Most commonly, the patient notices a sudden onset of feversigns of pain (intense headache, retro-orbital pain, myalgia, arthralgia), asthenia, anorexia, nausea, vomiting and skin rash in 50% of cases.
In the case of severe dengue, symptoms such as breathlessness due to pulmonary edema, pleural and pericardial effusion, hypochondrium pain from ascites, hypovolemic shock, severe bleeding, or major organ damage.
Alert for the expansion of dengue
As the Community of Madrid indicates in a protocol against dengue, “it is one of the main vector-borne diseases in humans and the mosquito-borne viral disease that has spread the fastest throughout the world in recent decades.”
According to this report, dengue fever “has multiplied by 30 and it has gone from being endemic in 9 countries in 1970 to more than 100 today.