Health Alerts

Six states have reported the majority of January’s 441 confirmed dengue fever cases (Veracruz, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Guerrero, Jalisco and Yucatán) and a further 6,000 suspected cases were recorded. Both these figures represent a year-on-year increase from Jan 2019. Elsewhere in the Americas, a big clean-up of likely mosquito breeding grounds has been underway in dengue-affected areas of Paraguay – all locations of Central Department and the capital have been affected, but some areas more so (Barrio Obrero, San Vicente, Saxony, Zeballos Cué, Holy Trinity and Republican). Read more.