New dengue fever attacks South America

"Aedes aegypti" dengue fever attacks most South American countries, causing 18 deaths in Paraguay, 20 deaths in Bolivia and thousands of cases this year.

Ivan Allende, head of the Asuncion Department of Hygiene and Hygiene confirmed 1 8 deaths in Paraguay and 2,500 cases of which 1300 were hospitalized. The disease reappears more seriously during the rainy season from the end of December.

Dengue fever is attacking most South American countries (Artwork)

Mr. Allende also said that in previous years, there were never too many people hospitalized like that.

In Bolivia, the number of deaths is up to 20 and the number of cases is 1,670. The eastern regions of the country, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, bordering Brazil and Paraguay have just declared " emergency hygiene ".

Although this number is lower than the record recorded in 2009 with 22 deaths and 50,000 cases of infection; However, Nilda Heredia, Bolivian Minister of Health, expressed concern and worried that a new strain of the disease had invaded Bolivia from Brazil, which was different from the strain of two years ago.

Meanwhile, the latest epidemiological report from the Venezuelan Ministry of Health showed that there were 124,931 dengue cases last year, almost double 65,869 cases in 2009. Heamorrhagic hemorrhage cases can be fatal in 2010 is 10,279 ca.

Dengue fever transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes causes high fever, headache, fainting, vomiting and heamorrhagic-hemorrhagic death.