Costa Rica: 2013 Dengue cases

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Costa Rica: 2013 Dengue cases

Costa Rica dengue epidemic not slowing down in a record-breaking year
Posted: Friday, November 15, 2013 - By L. Arias
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Cases of dengue virus in Costa Rica have continued to climb past the previous all-time record. This week, the total cases for the year reached 46,779, according to a report from the Health Ministry released Friday.

Health officials last week registered 655 new cases of dengue, that is 51 more than the previous week, the Health Ministry's director of health surveillance Mar?a Ethel Trejos said at a press conference.

In September, the country surpassed the previous record of 37,798, which occurred in 2005.

Out of all the cases diagnosed this year, one person died and 136 suffered from the more advanced form of the virus, also referred to as hemorrhagic dengue.
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http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/...-record-breaking-year_Friday-November-15-2013

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Costa Rica: 2013 Dengue cases

google translated;

Dengue broke record
ANGELA R. AVALOS | ?NGELA ?VALOS - Updated on December 22, 2013 at: 12:00 am
Since summer saw coming, but no one-not the Ministry of Health nor the people-paid attention. Until the epidemic burst.

The last record of the Ministry of Health speaks of 49,089 patients in 2013, 148 of them seriously and officially confirmed dead. These are the numbers of dengue, in a year that broke the record .

Before the 2005 boasted that sad honor with 37,798 patients and two deaths.

The numbers continued to grow, especially in Puntarenas and Guanacaste, the two most affected provinces today.
The managers of the Ministry of Health said it was foreseen, as in the country three of the four circulating serotypes (1, 2 and 3) and this increases the susceptibility of the population, accustomed to hearing from the disease for 20 years.
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The struggle now is to prevent history from repeating next year. Until September, the attention of accumulated sick ? 5.000 million (around $10 million - Ro) . Amount, today, probably several billion higher.

For now, the Health Ministry promises to take action from the summer season to prevent exceeding the 2014 enc asos and cost-record this year is about to end.
http://www.nacion.com/ocio/revista-dominical/Dengue-rompio-record-historico_0_1385861419.html

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Costa Rica: 2013 Dengue cases

Source: http://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rica-closes-2013-with-a-record-50000-cases-of-dengue/18343

Costa Rica Closes 2013 with a Record 50,000 Cases of Dengue
Monday, December 23rd, 2013

Costa Rica Closes 2013 with a Record 50,000 Cases of DengueThe Costa Rica News (TCRN) ? Costa Rica will close 2013 with some 50,000 cases of dengue, the most in its history. Health authorities are committed to maintaining a sustained prevention strategy in 2014.

The latest data from the Ministry of Health indicates that with just two weeks to conclude the year, there has been 49,428 dengue patients, of which at least 150 were of the serious variety but only one death has been counted.

This represents more than double the 22,243 dengue cases registered in 2012...