Health Alerts

With Brazil entering its summer season, there have been a number of dengue outbreak reports country-wide, due to some heavy summer rains, there has been an increasing number of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes carrying the virus. The highest number of cases were recorded in Goiás - 80,000 cases (about one-third of all cases nationwide); seven cities at risk of outbreaks. Minas Gerais had 26,000 cases and 8 deaths so far in 2018 and São Paulo - 8,900 cases through November 2018, including cases reported in the municipalities of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Sorocaba and Jundiaí.

According to the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Yellow Fever (YF) in Brazil has a seasonal pattern, based on historical analysis of human cases and epizootics due to yellow fever in the past 20 years, with 2 different periods: higher transmission occurring between December and May (seasonal period) and lower or interrupted transmission occurring between June and November. However, in the last 3 years, there has been a change in transmission for YF in Brazil. During 2018, viral circulation continued during the period of low transmission (June to November).