2024-06-16 16:58:10
Textual content: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
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Greater than 3.5 million circumstances of dengue to this point in 2024 have been reported within the Area, which represents triple that of the identical interval in 2023. Added to this determine are the thousand deaths resulting from this transmitted virus by the chew of an contaminated mosquito. The numbers have raised many alarms amongst well being authorities, since America might be experiencing its worst epidemic.
Though the rise within the variety of infections is registered in all Latin American and Caribbean nations, the best considerations are concentrated in Southern Cone nations similar to Brazil (83%), adopted by Paraguay (5.7%) and Argentina ( 3.7%), which characterize 92.4% of all circumstances and 87% of deaths.
Sources similar to PAHO point out that the rise is as a result of season of best transmission within the southern hemisphere. Right here the unfold of the Aedes aegypti mosquito is increased as a result of heat and wet local weather.
Jarbas Barbosa, director of the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO), regional affiliate of the World Well being Group (WHO), acknowledged that 2024 might be “most likely the worst dengue season recorded in the USA.”
In truth, the epidemic might be fueled by international warming and the El Niño local weather phenomenon. Worldwide media additionally warn concerning the speedy inhabitants development within the space together with unplanned urbanization. Along with the housing situations and inadequate water and sanitation companies, which permit the looks of breeding websites.
“We see a rise in nations similar to Barbados, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Martinique and Mexico, the place transmission is often highest within the second half of the yr,” provides Dr. Barbosa, with considerations that some nations usually are not ready to take care of a rise in transmission.
There are 4 serotypes of dengue within the area, in as much as 21 nations there are two or extra in circulation, and this will increase the danger of epidemics and extreme types of the illness.
For its half, in Cuba, it isn’t widespread for the numbers of infections and deaths resulting from illnesses brought on by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the primary transmitter of dengue, to be made public.
Allow us to keep in mind that the Ministry of Public Well being (MINSAP) of Cuba acknowledged final December that dengue transmission existed within the nation in eight provinces, ten municipalities and 16 well being areas, with out giving way more particulars.