Tag: Aedes Aegyptis

• Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 11:33 UTC

  Yellow fever is spreading in Brazil infecting and killing monkeys and humans

  

  Yellow fever, a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is spreading through Brazil, infecting and killing both monkeys and humans. According to the latest reports from local scientists, several thousand monkeys -- most of them howler monkeys -- have been killed by the virus since the outbreak began in late 2016.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2016 - 09:32 UTC

  First case of zika confirmed in Texas

  

  Texas health officials have announced Monday their first case of Zika virus, making it the second US state to report such an occurrence after Florida. The victim is a woman who is not pregnant and has not traveled anywhere a Zika affected area in recent times, it was announced.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 07:17 UTC

  Argentina admits ”epidemic of (mosquito-borne) dengue fever”, including Buenos Aires city

  

  The first cases of Dengue fever struck Buenos Aires City this week as a spate of outbreaks in Greater Buenos Aires and across Argentina’s northeast were labeled “an epidemic” by Health Minister Jorge Lemus.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2015 - 07:45 UTC

  Brazil on alert on possible link between Zika virus and micro-cephalic babies

  

  Brazilian health authorities, who alerted the nation Monday to the rapid spread of the Zika virus, confirmed that up to now it has caused one death and that another six victims are in critical condition and under medical examination.

• Monday, February 9th 2015 - 12:43 UTC

  Dengue cases 'explode' by 57% in Brazil during January

  

  Dengue cases in Brazil rose by 57% in January, an increase that the Brazilian government partially attributed to the water crisis in the country's southeastern region. In the first four weeks of the year, Brazil registered 40,196 cases of dengue, compared with 26,017 in the same period of 2014, the Brazilian Health Ministry said.

• Friday, November 14th 2014 - 08:03 UTC

  Fears of a new Chikungunya viral strain in Brazil with the coming of summer

  

  The Chikungunya outbreak which continues to affect thousands of Caribbean residents since it first appeared in St. Martin last year has been relatively self-limiting in the United States, due to the fact that the current strain only spreads through the Aedes egypti mosquito vector, which is uncommon on the US Eastern seaboard.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 06:58 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro admit a dengue epidemic: over 50.000 cases and 12 deaths

  

  The Brazilian ‘marvellous city’ of Rio do Janeiro officially declared it is suffering an epidemics emergency of the mosquito transmitted disease of dengue, following confirmed reports of over 50.000 cases so far this year, and 500 in the last week.