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More than three million dengue cases in the Americas in 2019
Washington, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) More than three million people suffered from dengue fever in the Americas in 2019, the year with most cases in the region's history, the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) reported.
According to PAHO's latest epidemiological update, those numbers exceeded 2.4 million patients in 2015, when the previous worst epidemic in regional history broke out.
Despite the increase in the number of cases in 2019, hard work in the countries succeeded in keeping the mortality rate (percentage of cases that ended in death) under the expected 1%, said the director of the Transmissible Diseases and Environmental Health Determinants Department at PAHO, Marcos Espinal...
More than three million dengue cases in the Americas in 2019
Washington, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) More than three million people suffered from dengue fever in the Americas in 2019, the year with most cases in the region's history, the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) reported.
According to PAHO's latest epidemiological update, those numbers exceeded 2.4 million patients in 2015, when the previous worst epidemic in regional history broke out.
Despite the increase in the number of cases in 2019, hard work in the countries succeeded in keeping the mortality rate (percentage of cases that ended in death) under the expected 1%, said the director of the Transmissible Diseases and Environmental Health Determinants Department at PAHO, Marcos Espinal...
