Bolivia records 11,495 contagious accumulated dengue so far this year, with 39 deaths as a result of this evil, according to the last part presented by the Ministry of Health of the South American country.
He health institution pointed out that the fatality rate in Santa Cruz is 1.1 percentwhile in the department of Beni the data confirm 0.6 percent, Tarija 2.3 percent and La Paz 0.7 percent.
According to the Bolivian organization, there is “a drastic reduction of contagiousbut you have to stay alert”, while calling for the help of the population in the face of the epidemic.
The Health portfolio pointed out that with the passing of the weeks the incidence of dengue cases in the country has gone diminishing. In the department of Santa Cruz, in the fifth week of this year, the incidence rate of cases rose to 5.4 for every 100,000 inhabitants.
He dengue It is a virus transmitted by the bite of the mosquito Aedes Aegypti. And its symptoms are high fever, headache, vomiting and skin rashes, and in its hemorrhagic form it can become mortal.
The health authorities stressed that one cannot lower one’s guard because in the event of an oversight they can increase people sick. To do this, they called for sanitization work in the territories, in order to eliminate the breeding sites of the mosquitos.
Source: TeleSur