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Two Die from Hemorrhagic Dengue in Southern Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY ? An 11-year-old girl and her 47-year-old aunt died from hemorrhagic dengue in the southern Guatemalan province of Santa Rosa, health officials said Sunday.
The girl died on Friday at Guatemala City?s San Juan de Dios Hospital, where she was taken on an emergency basis, and her aunt died at another hospital, Santa Rosa health department director Erbin Kiesling said.
The victims were apparently bitten by the mosquito that transmits the disease while visiting a tourist attraction last weekend in Santa Rosa, Guatemalan media reported...
...The Health Ministry has declared an alert in Escuintla province, which borders Santa Rosa, due to a spike in classic dengue cases in the region.
Some 5,700 classic dengue cases and 74 hemorrhagic dengue cases, nine of which resulted in deaths, occurred last year in the Central American country, official figures show...
Two Die from Hemorrhagic Dengue in Southern Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY ? An 11-year-old girl and her 47-year-old aunt died from hemorrhagic dengue in the southern Guatemalan province of Santa Rosa, health officials said Sunday.
The girl died on Friday at Guatemala City?s San Juan de Dios Hospital, where she was taken on an emergency basis, and her aunt died at another hospital, Santa Rosa health department director Erbin Kiesling said.
The victims were apparently bitten by the mosquito that transmits the disease while visiting a tourist attraction last weekend in Santa Rosa, Guatemalan media reported...
...The Health Ministry has declared an alert in Escuintla province, which borders Santa Rosa, due to a spike in classic dengue cases in the region.
Some 5,700 classic dengue cases and 74 hemorrhagic dengue cases, nine of which resulted in deaths, occurred last year in the Central American country, official figures show...