Carolina Gomez Mena
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 21, 2024, p. 8
Confirmed cases of dengue in the country practically triple those registered in the same period in 2023. According to the latest report from the General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health (Ssa), up to epidemiological week 37 there are 59,581 infections, while at the same date last year there were 20,511.
Of the confirmed cases, 40 percent correspond to Jalisco, Guerrero, Morelos, Michoacán and Veracruz, and just over half are non-severe dengue (34,301). Infections with warning signs and serious infections total 25,280. Deaths have also increased, as to date there are 146 and in 2023, for the same period, there were 30. The fatality rate is 0.58 percent and last year it was 0.32.
At the regional level, the incidence has also increased: the Pan American Health Organization reports that between epidemiological weeks 1 and 35, 11,671,392 suspected cases were reported in America, which gives a cumulative incidence of 1,222 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Regarding probable cases, the Ssa details that while for epidemiological week 37 of 2023 there were 115,212, for the same date this year there are 288,041. It adds that only in Mexico City, Tlaxcala, Chihuahua and Baja California have no confirmed cases of dengue.
