Argentina has reported nearly 200 deaths from dengue fever since the start of the season.
Argentina’s health ministry reported a total of 197 deaths from dengue fever since the start of the season, after adding 36 new deaths over the past week.
The number of dengue cases reported so far this season (since last week of July 2023) is 269,678 which implies an increase of 36,682 cases compared to last week’s report. Of the total, 643 were classified as serious.
The ministry reminds that “deaths were recorded in 93 cases.” accompanying illnessesthe most common of which are diabetes, heart disease, obesity, chronic neurological diseases and chronic kidney failure.”
90 percent of cases are local and 3 percent are imported, with the rest under investigation. “The accumulated incidence for the season is 573 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants,” the department explained.
The document states that according to “country-level dengue epidemic curve analysis, reject by the number of weekly cases in the penultimate week analyzed compared to the previous one.” The drop was 32 percent, the organization said, highlighting that there had not been such a decline since the 50th week of last year.
However for late loading of data “Cases in recent weeks should be treated with caution as they may be subject to change depending on the consistent integration of information by notifiers,” he said.