2023-12-17 22:30:00
A mosquito invasion worries the inhabitants and visitors of the tourist city of Punta del Este, Uruguay. So far, there are no signs that the Municipality of Maldonado is planning fumigation campaigns to address this problem. This phenomenon coincides with health alerts in the region due to confirmed dengue cases, as well as the warning of an imminent hello of heat.
Residents of Punta del Este expressed discomfort over the mosquito invasion that began days ago following a heavy rain and weeks of very hot. “It’s impossible,” said a resident of the tourist city to the portal. Infobae.
Health professionals recommend taking individual precautions, such as applying repellent and putting up mosquito nets. However, the businesspeople y those who work in tourism They also express their concern regarding this situation, since affects reputation from Punta del Este as place to vacation.
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Members of the local community warned Infobae that the authoritiesThey are not fumigating and there is no plan for this specific situation like other times when campaigns have been activated for confirmed cases of dengue.”.
Although similar situations have been recorded in previous summers, the current combination of a rise in dengue cases along with high temperature warnings places communities in a more delicate position.
Predicted high temperatures favor mosquito reproduction, underscoring the need for authorities implement preventive measures and effective controls to stop the spread of the virus.
The Ministry of Public Health of Uruguay, on May 8 of this year, reported that they identified the first case of dengue transmitted within the country since 2020. Since that time, three indigenous cases have been identified.
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In a press conference, the head of the Unit of the Global Program for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the WHO, Raman Velayudhan, and the technical leader of Zika and chikungunya, Diana Rojas Alvarezthey talked regarding the great expansion of the mosquito.
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“With the climate change, have been increasing by altitude and latitude. So now we are seeing transmission where we didn’t see it before. So, for example, in South America, in Argentina, in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and so on. And if we go to the northern hemisphere, there are now autochthonous cases reported in southern Europe, for example,” they noted.
This shows, he added, that climate change “has played a key role in facilitating the spread of the vector, the mosquitoes, to the south.” In that sense, the expert said that it is normal for these three viruses to “co-circulate in the same regions because they have the same vector,” the mosquito. Temples of the Egyptians.
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In recent decades, dengue has expanded in several countries around the world. Its appearance was limited to tropical and intertropical climates but In more than ten years it broke into subtropical and temperate regions. The viral infection is already endemic in more than 100 countries in the regions of World Health Organization (WHO) Africa, America, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific.
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The WHO stated that “20,000 people die every year from dengue,” mainly in Asia y South Americaand experts warn that the viral infection might increase considerably product of high temperatures in different countries globally, to the point that said organization evaluates it as a emerging disease capable of becoming a Epidemic.
According to the WHO survey, the disease transmitted by mosquitoes the house of Egypt It has a case fatality rate of one death per 100 patients and just under half develop symptoms.
Argentina It exceeded 132,000 cases and reported 66 deaths. “The epidemiological outbreak of dengue in 2023 is the largest recorded both in magnitude and persistence compared to the epidemiological outbreaks of the 2015/2016 and 2019/2020 seasons,” they indicated from the Argentine Ministry of Health.
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Dengue is considered one of the main health threats in the region given that the native climatic conditions favor the reproduction of the species and put millions of inhabitants at risk.
WHO Scientific Director Jeremy Farrar warned that “we need to really prepare countries for how they will deal with the additional pressure that will come in the future in many large cities.”
In this sense, in the framework of an interview he warned that “dengue might spread to the south of the United States and southern Europe before the year 2030.”
Dengue statistics in Argentina
Authorities of the Ministry of Health of the Argentine Republic have notified that until the end of September 20232,306 cases of Chikungunya virus have been detected in National territory and, of which 1,700 were classified as autochthonous336 were registered by people who entered the country and 270 are under investigation.
So far this year, nine jurisdictions have reported vernacular viral circulationthe City of Buenos Aires, the province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Misiones, Santa Fe and Salta.
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