Honduras: 2015 Chikungunya - 8,000+ cases

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Fear-of-Chikungunya-Epidemic-in-Honduras-20150120-0043.html

Fear of Chikungunya Epidemic in Honduras
Published 20 January 2015 (12 hours 5 minutes ago)

The virus that causes malaria and dengue like symptoms is becoming a major worry in Honduras with more than 50 reported cases in 2015 already, compared to 18 in the previous four months.


The chikungunya virus is rearing its head again in Central America, with an increase in cases in Honduras as reported by the Honduran General Hospital on Tuesday...

...Roxana Araujo, Chief of Health Surveillance Department of Honduras? principal public hospital highlighted that they ?only have the capacity to take 30 patients in the pediatric ward? and if the outbreak of chikungunya continues to increase, it could overload resources.

Currently, in the capital of Tegucigalpa there is an average of 5 cases daily of chikungunya. San Pedro Sula sees up to 7 or 8 a day. The patients usually come from the poor neighborhoods where there are no sewers or water services.

In 2014 the majority of chikungunya cases were reported in the village of San Francisco, 30 kilometers from the capital, and few cases in the capital.

This year there has already been several cases from the south, and from the bigger cities of San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortes...

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Health: Dengue and Chikungunya are already epidemic

MARCH 6, 2015 - 7:31


Due to the rapid growth of Chikungunya and dengue disease, this has already become an epidemic, therefore urgent action is needed immediately.
For some specialists, these epidemics will be got out of hand and the Ministry of Health in view that the measures were not taken in time, much less has been an awareness campaign among the population.

By nature Hondurans are indifferent to such evils and just start cleaning their yards and batteries when one of the family members is infected.
For the former Minister of Health, the authorities must declare an alert because the two diseases are now practically an epidemic which can be controlled if immediate steps are taken.

THOUSAND CASES

In the last hours, the authorities of the Ministry of Health reported that an average of one thousand cases of people infected with chikungunya virus are recorded weekly in the country and so far in 2015, totaling more than eight thousand cases and since disease at least 14,000 reported infections were detected.

 

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3855141&Itemid=1

Over 31,000 People Infected with Chikungunya in Honduras

Tegucigalpa, Jun 1 (Prensa Latina) Over the last 11 months at least 31,468 people contracted the chikungunya virus in Honduras, reports today the Ministry of Health.
According to the Head of Surveillance of the Ministry of Health Bredy Lara, in Honduras the first case was detected in July 2014 and in December of that year the total number amounted to 5,338.

So far in 2015 26,130 patients have been reported nationwide, for a total of 31,468 people affected, he added...