Santo Domingo.-In a respite for public health in the country, dengue cases show a remarkable decrease compared to the previous year.
Discover the key factors behind this encouraging trend, the most affected areas and the alert symptoms that you still have to take into account.
How does dengue behavior in the country walk?
At this time it is on low in the Dominican Republic, both in the consultation and in the hospitalizations, they have only been reported in week 33, we have 174 cases, while for the same period of 2024 1,118 cases, one of the lowest incidents in decades had been reported.
Which provinces have more cases with affected people?
The most affected provinces have always been Santo Domingo, National District, Santiago and San Cristóbal, sometimes that distribution is variable.
What factors are influencing the decrease in cases?
The main factors are the recent dengue epidemic in 2023, in which three types of viruses circulated in the region. In the country more than 27 thousand cases was reported, the largest registered.
In the tropical countries of the Americas, it impacted with figures that exceeded 10 million cases, a condition that could have reduced the susceptible population at low levels, which decreased and/or took out some of these serotypes of dengue virus in the population.
What are the alert symptoms to monitor?
Febrile sprouts in the community, accompanied by other symptoms such as headache.
The actions
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In the opinion of the infectologist, the same is still being done; Somehow, these actions have been able to contain the impact moderately, but they have not been enough.
