In Central America, at least twenty people lost their lives and more than 30,000 contracted the disease. dengue as a result of an outbreak. Guatemala and Panama register the highest number of deaths this year. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has recently warned about the situation, indicating that Latin America and the Caribbean will face its most serious dengue seasonwith a total of 3.5 million cases and more than a thousand deaths reported to date.
The most affected in the Central American region is Guatemalawith nine deaths and about 10,200 cases, including 38 seriously, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Last year 118 people died in Guatemala and 72,000 were infected by this mosquito-transmitted disease Aedes aegypti.
“One piece of information that we do have that is a little alarming is the amount of dengue that we have accumulated. […]this is closely related to the climate change“Guatemalan Health Minister Óscar Cordón said this week.
In PanamaAccording to official information, seven people have died and more than 3,200 cases have been recorded, 16 of them serious. In all of 2023, there were 18 deaths and more than 16,500 infected in the country.
“It is important to keep environments clean and thus avoid the increase in mosquito breeding sites.“warned the Ministry of Health of Panama.
In Honduras There are four deaths and 8,000 cases have been registered, according to official data. “There has been an increase from one week to the next of an average of 100 cases [a un promedio] from 800 to 900 something“, warned the spokesperson for the Honduran Ministry of Health, Miguel Osorio.
In Nicaragua, The Savior and Costa Rica There are officially no deaths from dengue this year. Managua reports 1,545 cases, but there are another 17,300 under investigation.
In The Savior There were more than 1,100 people affected by dengue. Last year there were 6,000. Costa Rica reports 6,000 cases.
Is “cause for concern, since it represents three times more cases than those reported for this same date in 2023, a record year with more than 4.5 million cases reported in the region“PAHO Director Jarbas Barbosa said last week.
“This will probably be the worst season of dengue that has been had in America”, he warned.
Source: Gestion
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