Rio de Janeiro. Brazil exceeded one thousand confirmed deaths from dengue in the country since January 1, as announced today by the Ministry of Health, while there are more than 2.6 million confirmed positives.
The most recent data, released this Wednesday, indicates that 1,020 people have officially died in Brazil so far this year due to the dengue outbreak, while 1,531 deaths are being investigated to determine whether they were due to dengue or not.
Brazil will likely break the record for the number of dengue deaths this year. At the moment, the worst year was 2023, when 1,093 people died from the disease, while in 2022, there were 1,054.
In addition, the Ministry of Health reported that 2 million 671 thousand 332 cases of dengue were confirmed in the country, a record number in one year, with an incidence coefficient of 1,315.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and a fatality rate in severe cases of 4.1. for every 100 thousand cases.
The Ministry of Health reported that most of the 27 states have already passed the peak of the dengue epidemic. Seven states show a downward trend in cases, in addition to the Federal District, which has the highest incidence in the country, with 235 infections per 100 thousand inhabitants, and has already recorded more than 120 thousand infections this year.
Another 12 states remain stable. Another seven continue on an upward curve, six of them in the Northeast. “We are seeing that the peak has passed in most of the states that started earlier. We still have the Northeast on the rise, and we are going to evaluate it over the next week to see if this decline is consolidated,” said the Secretary in Health and Surveillance. Environment of the Ministry of Health, Ethel Maciel.
Dengue is a disease transmitted by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito and in its most severe cases, can cause death.
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– 2024-04-05 03:46:58
