Madrid Spain.- The rate of dengue infestation has risen to 1.26, from the permissible 0.05, on the Isle of Youth, reported this Monday the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
According to the report of ACN, During the last 30 days, the territory reports 761 patients with dengue, for an incidence rate of 9.09 per 100,000 inhabitants.
In the special municipality, the Popular Councils with the highest rate of infestation and number of infected are Pueblo Nuevo, Micro-70, Abel Santamaría, 26 de Julio and Sierra de Caballos.
“Although extra-domiciliary and adulticide treatment is applied in the territory in these Councils, there are reservations in the control of the vector, in terms of hygiene and environmental sanitation, therefore it is urgent that the pineros increase the culture of hygiene and systematize the autofocal in centers of work and in homes, where most of the outbreaks are detected, ”adds the information.
According to the municipal directorate of Public Health, the rainy season has caused the proliferation of the mosquito and the risk situation has been accentuated by the presence of aedes aegypti.
The health authorities also insist on the elimination of containers, debris or solid waste that serve as hosts for the reproduction of the mosquito; trim gardens and backyards; keep covered cisterns, low and high tanks and others of lesser capacity and do not throw the abattoir, a guarantee to avoid the appearance of larvae.
A similar situation is presented by the provinces of Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Camagüey, Matanzas and Pinar del Río.
At the beginning of last July, the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported that the country is on alert for dengue, and that in 2022 the highest number of outbreaks in the last 15 years has been registered.
During the third week of July, 4,776 cases of dengue were reported throughout the country, a figure higher than that registered in the first quarter of the current year.
In that month, the death of several people due to this disease, among them children, as well as the hospital collapse.
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