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Dengue kills at least 39 dead and 42 000 patients in CentroaméricaDengue this year is wreaking havoc in Central America, which has left at least 39 dead and more than 42 000 patients, while health authorities reinforce educational campaigns to prevent and eliminate bad the mosquito that transmits it.
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
AFP
Cases of dengue are fired each year in the rainy season in Central America (May to November), but this year, hospitals and clinics in Honduras and Costa Rica have collapsed because the cases multiplied.
"We can not lower our guard, we must continue to destroy the breeding" of mosquito, called the Costa Rican Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila.
Various factors - including poverty - preventing eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the disease in its classic and hemorrhagic varieties (which is much more severe), which can be fatal if not received prompt medical attention.
Dengue this year has left 19 dead in Honduras, 13 in Guatemala, five in Nicaragua and two in Costa Rica. In the latter country, which has the best health indices of the isthmus, disease cases have increased by 590 percent compared to 2009.
In El Salvador and Panama have been no deaths, but cases have also multiplied, almost eight times as compared to 2009, in the case of El Salvador.
The health authorities have recorded 16 000 500 cases of dengue fever in Honduras, 12 000 in Costa Rica, 6000 197 in El Salvador, 6000 in Guatemala, Nicaragua 500 thousand and a hundred in Panama.
Dengue is a viral disease causing fever and headaches and joint pain. The hemorrhagic variety causes bleeding and clotting disorders, which raises the risk of death.
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Dengue kills at least 39 dead and 42 000 patients in CentroaméricaDengue this year is wreaking havoc in Central America, which has left at least 39 dead and more than 42 000 patients, while health authorities reinforce educational campaigns to prevent and eliminate bad the mosquito that transmits it.
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
AFP
Cases of dengue are fired each year in the rainy season in Central America (May to November), but this year, hospitals and clinics in Honduras and Costa Rica have collapsed because the cases multiplied.
"We can not lower our guard, we must continue to destroy the breeding" of mosquito, called the Costa Rican Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila.
Various factors - including poverty - preventing eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the disease in its classic and hemorrhagic varieties (which is much more severe), which can be fatal if not received prompt medical attention.
Dengue this year has left 19 dead in Honduras, 13 in Guatemala, five in Nicaragua and two in Costa Rica. In the latter country, which has the best health indices of the isthmus, disease cases have increased by 590 percent compared to 2009.
In El Salvador and Panama have been no deaths, but cases have also multiplied, almost eight times as compared to 2009, in the case of El Salvador.
The health authorities have recorded 16 000 500 cases of dengue fever in Honduras, 12 000 in Costa Rica, 6000 197 in El Salvador, 6000 in Guatemala, Nicaragua 500 thousand and a hundred in Panama.
Dengue is a viral disease causing fever and headaches and joint pain. The hemorrhagic variety causes bleeding and clotting disorders, which raises the risk of death.
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