Health ministry urges public to 'destroy mosquito breeding places' after Fijian student dies from dengue

It may seem strange, but sometimes we feel inexplicably immune. In health matters, especially. It happened at the time with the Covid. In times of pandemic, it was very common that, as we were working on the street or in news, radios or TV channels, we were more exposed to the contagion. Very many colleagues can attest to that. A couple of weeks ago, in the midst of an unrest that appeared surreptitiously on an afternoon of work, I feared that t…

Health ministry urges public to 'destroy mosquito breeding places' after Fijian student dies from dengue

The country's health ministry is urging the public to "destroy mosquito breeding places" amid a nationwide surge in dengue fever cases.

Health Ministry urges public action amid spraying efforts

The Ministry of Health, while accelerating its spraying program for dengue fever, has called on the public to do their part. The ministry is not only focusing on urban settings, but rural and maritime communities have also been targeted. Lakeba Subdivision Health Inspector Enesi Cakau told villages on the island to focus on eliminating waste […]

The Loreto region is experiencing a serious dengue epidemic, with 5,225 registered cases and five confirmed deaths, of which four correspond to minors, according to the latest report of the Regional Health Management.The most affected cities are Iquitos, Yurimaguas, San Lorenzo and Requena, although the authorities have warned that the virus has already begun to spread to rural localities, aggravating the epidemiological scenario.In the Regional…

The state of São Paulo recently registered five autochthonous cases of dengue serotype 4, four of which were in Bauru and one still under investigation. With this new identification, all four lineages of the dengue virus (DENV-1 to DENV-4) are now present in São Paulo territory. The Adolfo Lutz Institute, responsible for sequencing the cases, emphasized the relevance of epidemiological surveillance. So far, São Paulo has 552,000 probable cases o…

Neighbors of the delegation Felipe Carrillo Puerto warned of an increase in dengue cases, due to pollution in the north drain and the collapse of sanitary drainage Inhabitants of the delegation Felipe Carrillo Puerto and of the colony Santa María Magdalena accused that dengue cases have increased due to pollution in the north drain and the collapse of sanitary drainage that has even caused floods, so they demanded the municipal authorities of Qu…