Tag: Jorge Lemus

• Saturday, January 23rd 2016 - 08:28 UTC

  Argentina now denies dengue outbreak is an 'epidemic'.

  

  Even as the number of new cases of dengue fever continued to rise in Argentina, the Health Ministry performed a rapid about-face and disavowed a statement made on Wednesday that the outbreak constituted “an epidemic.”

• 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.