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1 day ago · Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images. Puerto Rico has issued a public health emergency after recording an unusually rapid rise in dengue cases over the first few months of this year. It's the latest ...
1 day ago · Most people with dengue will show no signs of infection or experience only mild symptoms, such as fever, muscle and joint pain and nausea. They typically recover in one or two weeks. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only a quarter of people infected with dengue get sick.
10 hours ago · Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency this week as cases of dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne infection, rise precipitously across the United States territory. In the ...
15 hours ago · SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil, with 3.5 million cases of the tropical disease reported so far, health officials said Thursday. That tally is three times the number of cases reported at this point last year, said Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, director of the Pan American ...
1 day ago · Puerto Rico has declared a dengue epidemic following a surge in cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the U.S. territory. In total, there have been 549 cases, including 341 hospitalizations and ...
16 hours ago · Cases of the mosquito-borne disease have exceeded historical figures in the island, said Puerto Rico's health secretary, while 3.5 million cases and over 1,000 deaths have been reported in Latin ...
4 days ago · Arboviral situation summary. In the Region of the Americas, between epidemiological week (EW) 1 and EW 53 of 2020, a total of 2,457,864 cases of arboviral disease were reported. Of these, 2,331,840 ( 94.9 % ) were dengue cases, 103,046 ( 4.2 % ) chikungunya cases, and 22,978 ( 0.9 % ) were Zika cases. Country specific data on case counts and ...