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Increase in dengue cases in Brazil poses threat to Argentina
Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 20:15 UTC
A leading Argentine scientist believes that the increase in the number of cases of dengue reported in neighboring Brazil requires action from local health authorities amid threats of local outbreaks.
According to Biologist Fabricio Tejerina from the Research Group on Mosquitoes in Argentina (Gima), the Aedes Aegypti mosquito is one of the species most researched after homo sapiens sapiens.
But “unfortunately, these diseases continue to advance because they have to do with social conditions and how we generate favorable conditions for this mosquito to adapt to the places where we live,” explained Tejerina, who heads the Institute of Epidemiological Surveillance and Vectors of the Municipality of Posadas, in the province of Misiones.
One of the Institute's main tasks is to prevent the recurrence of an outbreak, after the last one in 2019-2020 recorded nearly 54,000 cases.
In the last 10 to 15 years, the dengue--causing mosquitoes spread southward, reaching the provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires, and the Cuyo (Mendoza, San Juan, and San Luis) region, Tejerina also pointed out.
In 2020, a major outbreak was recorded in La Rioja City with the same number of cases as Misiones (10,000)...
Increase in dengue cases in Brazil poses threat to Argentina
Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 20:15 UTC
A leading Argentine scientist believes that the increase in the number of cases of dengue reported in neighboring Brazil requires action from local health authorities amid threats of local outbreaks.
According to Biologist Fabricio Tejerina from the Research Group on Mosquitoes in Argentina (Gima), the Aedes Aegypti mosquito is one of the species most researched after homo sapiens sapiens.
But “unfortunately, these diseases continue to advance because they have to do with social conditions and how we generate favorable conditions for this mosquito to adapt to the places where we live,” explained Tejerina, who heads the Institute of Epidemiological Surveillance and Vectors of the Municipality of Posadas, in the province of Misiones.
One of the Institute's main tasks is to prevent the recurrence of an outbreak, after the last one in 2019-2020 recorded nearly 54,000 cases.
In the last 10 to 15 years, the dengue--causing mosquitoes spread southward, reaching the provinces of La Pampa, Buenos Aires, and the Cuyo (Mendoza, San Juan, and San Luis) region, Tejerina also pointed out.
In 2020, a major outbreak was recorded in La Rioja City with the same number of cases as Misiones (10,000)...