2024-04-02 10:21:55
The climate with abundant rain and high temperatures has facilitated mosquito reproduction.
Dozens of people go to emergency rooms every day in Buenos Aires in the midst of a historic dengue outbreak in the country, where there are already about 151,000 infections and 106 deaths in the last seven months.
According to data from the Ministry of Health of the Nation, compared to 2023, infections multiplied by 11.3%.
The management of the hospital located in the City of Buenos Aires told the media Interference how they live in their own flesh national phenomenon.
In the first 10 weeks of 2024 the country registered 102,898 casesa figure that reflects an exponential increase compared to the same period of the previous year, when the mark was 8,343.
The disease has already claimed the lives of 79 personaswhere “the majority of them presented pre-existing comorbidities“, they explain.
Likewise, the infections detected in these first months of 2024 They represent 86% of all cases registered in 2023. Because of this, this year can become one record in infections.
The refusal of a vaccine despite the Dengue outbreak
From the Casa Rosada the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adornitold the media Internacional that the Government “does not see necessary” include vaccination against dengue in the national calendar.
“Vaccinating now would imply that you will achieve immunity within 4 months.” when the mosquito is not a problem“, he asserted.
Following this same line, Mario Russothe Argentine Minister of Health, in a recent article in the newspaper La Nación, stated that “in the coming months We are going to define if vaccination will be implemented (against dengue) in the next season.”
During February, the Pan American Health Organization (OPS) issued an epidemiological alert due to the increase in dengue cases, calling on intensify control actions for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the main transmitting vector.
The climate with abundant rains and high temperatures has facilitated mosquito reproduction. Argentina’s meteorological trends seen in recent times They brought forward the epidemic this season.