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More than 560,000 cases of dengue in the Americas in 2018 - PAHO
Loop News Created : 1 March 2019
Jamaica News
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has disclosed that 560,586 cases of dengue were reported in the Region of the Americas last year. The number includes 3,535 severe cases and 336 deaths.
The statistics also show that, for the first six weeks of 2019, almost 100,000 cases of dengue were reported, including 632 cases of severe dengue and 28 deaths.
The information is contained in PAHO?s latest epidemiological update on dengue, published last week.
It has called for countries in the Caribbean and Latin America to prepare for a timely response to possible outbreaks of the mosquito borne dengue fever...
More than 560,000 cases of dengue in the Americas in 2018 - PAHO
Loop News Created : 1 March 2019
Jamaica News
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has disclosed that 560,586 cases of dengue were reported in the Region of the Americas last year. The number includes 3,535 severe cases and 336 deaths.
The statistics also show that, for the first six weeks of 2019, almost 100,000 cases of dengue were reported, including 632 cases of severe dengue and 28 deaths.
The information is contained in PAHO?s latest epidemiological update on dengue, published last week.
It has called for countries in the Caribbean and Latin America to prepare for a timely response to possible outbreaks of the mosquito borne dengue fever...