2023-12-22 17:15:00
Panorama general. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on the increase in dengue cases in the world and raised the risk to high after announcing that more than five million infections were reported.
Of the figure given by the WHO, 5 thousand infections were fatal. One of the reasons for the increase in contagion, according to the organization, is climate change that expands the habitat of mosquitoes that transmit the disease. The arbovirus expert from the WHO epidemic and pandemic prevention department, Diana Rojas, indicated that about 4 million people are at risk of becoming infected with dengue.
What you should know. 80% of the cases that have been recorded this year were reported in America, followed by Asia.
The country with the most infections on the continent is Brazil with 2.9 million cases, followed by Peru with 271 thousand and Mexico with 235 thousand. In the case of Guatemala, more than 64 thousand cases have been reported, six times more than the infections reported in 2022. The WHO asks the member countries of the organization to strengthen case monitoring mechanisms.
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