Dengue infections in Nicaragua increase in 2024 and possibly the number of cases will exceed the figure recorded last year, which was 9,379.
Article 66 verified, through a review of the weekly bulletins of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), that between January 1 and December 8 of this year there were 9,047 confirmed cases of dengue in Nicaragua.
The positive cases of dengueIt is worth mentioning that there could be more, taking into account that the Health authorities did not disclose the weekly bulletin of epidemiological diseases that correspond to two weeks, from October 28 to November 9.
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In 2023, the number of confirmed cases of dengue in Nicaragua stood at 9,379, according to data released by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
More than 77 thousand suspected cases
On the other hand, there are suspected cases of dengue. The Minsa, through social networks, at the beginning of this December resumed publishing weekly reports on the progress of the “Campaign Against Dengue”, after three consecutive weeks in which it hid that information.
The bulletins that run from November 25 to December 8 raise the number of suspected dengue cases by 77,009, according to a data analysis carried out by Article 66.
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Before assuming this data, the public institution had disclosed that the suspected cases of dengue at the end of August 3 reached 51,640.
Subsequently, the Minsa kept the figures on the advance of dengue for eight weeks, a period from August 4 to September 24.
On September 25, the Minsa launched the Campaign Against Dengue, which included massive house-to-house visits to detect febrile cases. From then until December 8, it reported 25,396 new suspected cases of dengue located during that day.
It is worth mentioning that, in this period in which he reported on the suspected cases of dengue through the Campaign Against Dengue, he also hid the records of four weeks, between October 14 and 17, and between November 4 and 24, Therefore, the number of suspected cases to date could be much higher.
According to PAHO, suspected cases of dengue last year in Nicaragua reached 173,147 and a year before, in 2022, they totaled 97,541.
