MADRID, Spain.- Santiago de Cuba presents the worst outlook in terms of the dengue crisis that is going through the entire country.
In said province, on average, at least one vector breeding site is detected for every 120 homes, for a focal point of 3,266, so the risk of getting sick is still very high, with an incidence rate of 65.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. in the last week, according to the local media Sierra Maestra Alfredo Cintra Guerra, responsible for Surveillance and vector control.
Cintra Guerra also indicated that currently “the daily average of medical attention for presumptive symptoms of dengue is 297.”
“And the number of patients who go to the doctor with alarm signs is still worrying, due to the circulation of the four serotypes of the dengue virus,” he added.
According to the information, the most affected territories are Palma Soriano, Santiago de Cuba, Contramaestre, Mella and Songo-La Maya, “which does not mean that in other municipalities there are no cases of this arbovirosis.”
As he recently explained to CubaNet Roberto Serrano Delis, doctor in Songo La Maya, the epidemiological situation is at its most critical point. He even confesses that he is “astonished by the number of people with severe dengue. Above all, due to the severity of the clinical pictures and the speed with which the virus is acting ”.
“Although it is true that dengue is one of the main causes of death in Latin America, serious manifestations are rarely so frequent. It is even said that more or less 80 percent of patients have mild symptoms and satisfactory recovery. For this reason, for me what is happening now in Cuba is extraordinary,” said the doctor.
The newspaper Sierra Maestra He called for extreme measures to control the mosquito; most effective way to prevent viral infection and stop the epidemic.
“It is about destroying the breeding grounds in the home and in the workplace through family and work autofocal…, which has to be systematic and must be taken very seriously.”
However, the fregistration of fumigatorsof fuel and of hygiene, attempts against the elimination of the sources of mosquitoes.
According to specialists, 2022 is already distinguished as the one with the highest number of outbreaks registered in the last 15 years.
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