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Montevideo, May 18th 2025 - 03:13 UTC

Tag: dengue

  • Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 11:45 UTC

    Chikungunya kills 90 people in Paraguay so far this year

    Sequera also explained that chikungunya was on the rise in the provinces but decreasing in Asuncion and in the Central department

    Paraguayan health authorities last week confirmed at least 90 deaths this year had been caused by chikungunya fever, while Uruguay detected its first imported case of the malady. One more case was also confirmed in the last days of 2022, according to the latest report from Paraguay's Health Ministry released on Friday.

  • Saturday, April 8th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    Uruguay's Health Minister worried about travelers bringing home dengue

    “We have to take care of ourselves,” Rando said

    Uruguayan health authorities have issued a series of recommendations to nationals of the South American country traveling abroad, particularly to Argentina, for the Easter Weekend due to a surge in the number of dengue cases detected in the neighboring nation. Health Minister Karina Rando stressed that those returning from that country and from Brazil should be attentive to possible symptoms for 10 or 12 days.

  • Wednesday, March 29th 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    Dengue kills 6 in Argentina

    Between 80 and 90 cases of dengue are treated daily at one single Buenos Aires hospital and the number of infections is growing

    Health authorities in the Argentine province of Tucumán Tuesday reported three more deaths due to dengue, which after last week's casualties, brings the total number of fatalities to six nationwide.

  • Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

    Sanitary precautions upped in triple-border region

    Only 9 cases of dengue have been registered so far this year in Paraguay, against 1,244 cases of chikungunya

    Sanitary workers in the newly-created county of Fracrán in the Argentine province of Misiones have undertaken a house-by-house campaign to persuade people to get vaccinated against yellow fever, Covid-19, and measles, while residents were advised to up their precautions due to the increasing number of cases in neighboring Paraguay, where the first death due to chikungunya has been reported.

  • Wednesday, April 20th 2022 - 12:23 UTC

    Cases of dengue on the rise in Brazil

    Dengue is a seasonal disease with similar symptoms to COVID-19 during its early stages

    Brazilian health authorities Tuesday announced the number of probable cases of dengue fever nationwide had nearly doubled since the beginning of the year compared to the same period in 2021.

  • Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:26 UTC

    Argentina's disease concern is with dengue and the 3.000 cases reported so far

    “We have 152 cases confirmed in lab tests, of which 117 had previously travelled to Paraguay where the disease is endemic with the rainy season”

    Covid 19 might not be a priority in Argentina at the moment, although there are some cases under observation, but what is really threatening is the mosquito-transmitted dengue with 152 cases confirmed in the province of Buenos Aires and some 3.000 in the northern provinces of Misiones and Corrientes.

  • Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:31 UTC

    Mercosur urgent health ministers meeting to address dengue, measles and coronavirus threat

    One of the victims of the dengue outbreak is Paraguay's First Lady, Silvana Lopez Moreita, following on her husband, president Mario Abdo Benítez convalescence in January

    Mercosur health ministers will be holding an urgent meeting this week in Paraguay to address the spread of dengue, the outbreak of measles and the possible arrival of the China coronavirus to the region.

  • Friday, August 30th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

    Central America suffering the worst outbreak of dengue fever in decades

    Besides Central America other Latin American nations such as Brazil, Paraguay, Colombia and Belize are also affected, says the Pan American Health Organization.

    Central America is grappling with its worst outbreak of dengue fever in decades - and scientists say the disease is likely to spread and become more frequent in the future due to climate change.

  • Tuesday, May 20th 2014 - 08:48 UTC

    Brazil World Cup host cities with an early warning system for dengue

    The warning system specifically predicts the risk of dengue infections in 553 micro-regions of Brazil

    A heightened risk of an outbreak of dengue fever during the upcoming soccer World Cup in Brazil has prompted a high alert in three out of 12 host cities. For the first time, scientists have developed an early warning system that predicts the risk of dengue fever infections throughout parts of Brazil.

  • Monday, April 21st 2014 - 06:28 UTC

    Brazil attempts to combat dengue with GM mosquitoes

    Last year Brazil reported 1.4 million cases of dengue

    The world’s largest ever swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes has been released in a Brazilian town to combat dengue -- a leading cause of illness and fatality in several Mercosur countries, except for Uruguay.