Health Alerts

Three of the country’s six districts (Orange Walk, Stann Creek and Cayo) have borne the brunt of the dengue fever outbreak that is currently expanding across the region. With wet weather set to continue, authorities are warning the public of the risk fearing many more cases than the 3,115 already recorded. Other Central American countries with current high rates of dengue are El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua while in South America, Brazil is the hot spot. The risk of severe dengue is heightened in Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico with co-circulation of the four dengue serotypes. Other countries with multiple serotypes circulating are Colombia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Panama, and Venezuela (DENV 1, DENV 2, DENV 3) and in Paraguay and Peru (DENV 1, DENV 2, DENV 4). The latest PAHO Epidemiological Update for dengue notes that the region’s final 2019 total ‘will likely exceed the total reported in the epidemic year of 2015’. More on Mexico’s dengue fever rates. Read more.