Dengue epidemic in Brazil

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table class="lt14" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="93%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="lt14"> RIO DE JANEIRO, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian health authorities on Friday reported the fifth death from hemorrhagic dengue fever.
The latest death occurred in Campo Garnde, the capital city of the southern state of Mato Grosso.
Some 53,000 people have been infected across <!--ADV_CONTENT-->Brazil in the first two months of this year, up 17 percent on the same period of last year.
Mato Grosso was the worst-hit province, accounting for about 53percent of all reported cases.
The country's southeast area has reported 64 percent of the overall dengue cases. The Brazilian government has formally recognized that the region faces an epidemic and has allocated an extra 300,000 U.S. dollars to Mato Grosso to fight the infection.


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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/03/content_5794861.htm

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Brazil reports 5th dengue death; 53,000 infected

Re: Brazil reports 5th dengue death; 53,000 infected

Brazil's dengue cases rise by 50,000 in two weeks

April 03, 2007

Around 135,000 cases of dengue fever have been registered in Brazil till March 26 this year, an increase of 50,000 from the accumulative total recorded on March 12, the Health Ministry reported on Monday.

Fourteen people have died of hemorrhagic dengue, the deadliest variant of the acute, infectious tropical disease, the ministry said. In 2006, there were 346,000 dengue cases and 71 deaths in the South American country.

Mato Grosso do Sul is the worst affected region, with more than 55,000 cases, or 59 percent of the total. Sao Paulo, the second hardest hit, has 12,000 cases, or around 9 percent of the total.

The dengue epidemic has been spreading in South America since the beginning of the year, with Brazil posting the largest number of cases. Other affected nations include Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.

The Brazilian government is promoting a dengue prevention campaign, aimed at reducing its incidence ahead of the July Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro, which are expected to attract a large number of tourists.

Dengue fever is caused by four closely related viruses and is spread by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which breeds in stagnant water. Brazil has serotypes one, two and three. Type three, the strongest, appeared in Brazil at the end of 2000, and has been spreading through Mato Grosso do Sul.

Source: Xinhua

http://english.people.com.cn/200704/03/eng20070403_363311.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dengue in Brazil

Re: Dengue in Brazil

Dengue Precedes the Pope

Sao Paulo, May 7 (Prensa Latina) Less than a week before the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Brazil, the city of Aparecida may be declared in a state of emergency due to dengue fever.

This municipality, with 36 thousand inhabitants and about 500 thousand tourists waiting for the Pope's visit, reported 104 cases of the disease, a situation that authorities consider serious.

The increased number of cases is troubling because the day before the State Secretary of Public health had reported only 68 persons infected by the virus in a city 160 km north of Sao Paulo.

The epidemic control department admitted that the most serious sectors infested are the central region and the Nuestra Se?ora del Perpetuo Socorro barrio.

A total of 200 police, 50 public health officials and 60 physicians have been dispatched to combat dengue after mosquito colonies were found in the national Cathedral of Aparecida.

This is precisely one of the places the Pope will visit May 9 to inaugurate the Latin American Ecclesiastical Conference.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dengue in Brazil

Re: Dengue in Brazil

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Brazil

Date: Thu 7 Jun 2007

Source: Diario da Noticia [in Portuguese, trans. Mod.TY, edited]
<http://www.diariodanoticia.com.br/noticia.php?id=1075>


The efficiency of the country in fighting dengue has worsened. In the
first 4 months of the year [2007], the number of cases of this
disease increased 20 percent compared to the number of cases during
the same period in 2006.

There were 246 833 patients infected, of which 288 were DHF
(dengue hemorrhagic fever). There were 38 deaths, between 10
and 15 percent more than in the same period last year [2006].

Concerned for this increase, a group of consultants from the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO) will travel to Brazil in July
[2007] to analyze the [government's] plan to combat dengue.

Fabiano Pimenta, acting secretary for Health Surveillance [Ministry
of Health], indicated that the increase in cases this year [2007] is
due to the combination of 2 factors: an increase in the intensity and
duration of rainfall and the explosion of cases in Mato Grosso do
Sul: 68 000 cases, just this year [2007].

"In the state, there have been a large number of [mosquito] breeding
sites, and the people have no immunity to dengue [virus type] 3.
This has produced an explosion of cases." he observed.

Pimenta recognized, however, that in other localities where the
population was also susceptible to dengue [virus type] 3 the epidemic
could be contained. This was the case in Minas Gerais.

"it is an example that, with good field work and the cooperation of
the people, it is possible to avoid an explosive number of cases," he affirmed.


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[Gert van der Hoek]

Dengue in Brazil

Dengue in Brazil

Archive Number 20070706.2156
Published Date 06-JUL-2007
Subject PRO/EDR> Dengue/DHF update 2007 (26)


DENGUE/DHF UPDATE 2007 (26)
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In this update:
[1] Brazil (Sao Paulo)
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[1] Brazil (Sao Paulo)
Date: 19 Jun 2007
Source: Jornal da Manha [in Portuguese, trans. & summ. Mod.TY, edited]
<http://www.jornaldamanha.com/visualizar.php?not=19052>


Yesterday [18 Jun 2007] Municipal Epidemiological

Surveillance totaled the number of dengue cases
since the start of last week [10 Jun 2007]. From
the data provided, the [municipal] health units
recorded an additional 15 victims [clinically
diagnosed as dengue] plus the 6 that had
laboratory diagnosis by the Adolfo Lutz Institute.

These data bring to a total of 1809 cases of this
disease this year [2007]. In the first days of
the month [Jun 2007] 21 [cases] were registered,
the same number [of cases] as were announced
yesterday.

In the last week of May [2007] there were 61
cases, in the previous [week] 75, and before that
84 and 153. The progressive decline in the
numbers of cases indicate that the epidemic is
easing and may be drawing to an end.

Of the total cases up until the present, 972 were
laboratory diagnosed (serology) and 837
clinically by physicians, based on symptoms.
Despite the dry season, which does not favor the
accumulation of water, essential for the
proliferation of the mosquito _Aedes aegypti_,
the vector of dengue [virus], the population must
remain on alert.

"As temperatures go higher, that is positive for
_Aedes_ breeding. As people permit water to
accumulate, the numbers of dengue cases diagnosed
will continue," affirmed the coordinator of the
Municipal Secretariat of Health, Danilo Bigeschi.

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[There is an old saying that characterizes
persons [living in] poverty: "they sell their
lunch in order to buy dinner." This is how public
health [addresses] dengue control, counting
case-by-case and the accompanying trends as
though there were a stock market. One case more
or one less does not make a difference -- what is
important is that every 3 or 4 years we will live
through another [dengue] epidemic. - Mod.LJS,
trans. from Portuguese Mods.TY/JW]

[It is extraordinarily difficult to get the
public to continue to eliminate _Aedes aegypti_
breeding sites long after the dengue epidemic
ends, to prevent recurrence of dengue virus
transmission and a new outbreak.

Marilia is located in the western sector of
greater Sao Paulo, Brazil. A map of Marilia can
be accessed at:
<http://www.fallingrain.com/world/BR/27/Marilia.html>. - Mod.TY]

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[2] Guyana: suspected
Date: 22 Jun 2007
Source: Stabroek News [edited]
<http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=56522970>


Cases of dengue fever have been reported in the
Lethem area, but while authorities are seeing
many persons with signs and symptoms they have no
kits to test them, Acting Regional Health Officer
(RHO) Eugene Xavier says.

When contacted, Xavier confirmed that there was a
number of cases. He said up to last week Friday
[15 Jun 2007] they had kits and they had
confirmed some 11 cases, but the kits have run
out. Since then, they have seen a number of
persons with signs and symptoms who have come up
negative for malaria when tested. He said this
means that more than likely, those persons have
dengue fever, but there is no way to prove this.

Contact was made with Director of Disease Control
Services, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud, who told Stabroek
News that he had not heard any such reports. He
said usually the ministry would contact RHOs and
collect data on a weekly basis and it had not
received any such reports. He expressed surprise
that officials could say definitively that it was
dengue fever, since, according to him,
confirmatory tests for dengue had to be done by
the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC).

He said the kits to which Xavier referred were
used to test for antibodies. If a person was
exposed to any of the viruses that cause dengue
fever previously, the antibody would show up. As
a result one should wait until the definitive
test was done by CAREC to diagnose dengue.

Persaud explained that if his department was
informed it would have advised the region's
officials on vector control measures since there
was no specific medication for treating dengue
fever. The public would be advised to cover their
water supply since the _Aedes_ mosquito, which
transmits the disease, thrives in fresh water.
Also, the public would be advised to use insect
repellent and mosquito nets to minimize being
bitten by mosquitoes. Dr. Persaud had promised to
contact the regional officials and had advised
this reporter to call him back but when calls
were placed to his office he was not there.

According to Xavier, no one was hospitalised at
the moment, but the situation was worrying. He
said persons were treated for some of the
symptoms and since most of them live in Lethem
they were being monitored. He said that the
neighbouring Brazilian town, Bon Fim, did not
have a dengue outbreak. On Wednesday [20 Jun
2007] he met the town's Chamber of Commerce head
who informed that while there were cases of
malaria there was no dengue fever. The
authorities there were said to be in the process
of fogging the area. The acting RHO expressed the
need to have the Lethem area fogged as well.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dengue epidemic in Brazil

Brazil declares dengue epidemic; over 480,000 cases reported

Posted : Wed, 17 Oct 2007

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 17 - With 481,000 cases reported in the first nine months of this year, Brazil is facing an epidemic of dengue fever, the Spanish news agency EFE quoted Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao as saying.

'It's already an epidemic really. This year 121 people have already died,' Gomes Temporao said Tuesday while launching a new national campaign to combat the disease in the city of Belo Horizonte.

'It is a disease that kills and can only be dealt with effectively through a large-scale mobilization of society,' the minister said.

The numbers up to September indicate that 2007 could be one of the country's worst years for the number of people who get sick and who die from dengue.

Until now, Brazil's highest toll from dengue fever came in 2002, with 794,000 reported cases and 150 deaths.

As of last July, when the number of cases was already 45 percent over 2006, the government refused to admit that the country was facing an epidemic.

'Dengue is a serious problem and it kills. This year 1,076 people had dengue hemorrhagic fever, which is the worst strain of the disease,' Gomes Temporao said.

'The scenario this year is negative and for that reason we are launching a campaign before the rainy season, when the mosquito carrying the virus proliferates,' he said.

'We still have time to take preventive measures, but the results depend on everyone doing their part,' he said.

The National Campaign for Mobilization against Dengue launched Tuesday plans to transmit information on radio and television, as well as through the distribution of booklets with recommendations on how to prevent it, chiefly in the southeastern and central-western regions of the country.

The chief recommendation is to avoid leaving objects outdoors in which stagnant water can collect, such as bottles, tyres and deactivated swimming pools, which serve as breeding grounds for mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/125653.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Dengue epidemic in Brazil

Over 55,000 dengue cases registered in Rio de Janeiro

October 19, 2007


Some 55,467 cases of dengue have been registered in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state since January, more than in the four years prior put together, according to statistics reported on Thursday by Brazil's Health Ministry.

The most affected municipality is Rio de Janeiro with 20,378 cases. "We clearly face an epidemic in the state. There has been a 50-percent growth in the number of cases in 2006, just like the rest of the country," epidemiologist Edmilson Migowsky said.

The situation could get worse, Migowsky said, because only one third of the people affected presented defined symptoms and normally only 10 percent of the cases are officially notified.

Dengue is an illness with symptoms similar to colds, transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito that can be mortal in its hemorrhagic form. So far, 18 people have already died in Rio de Janeiro state.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90880/6286805.html