The Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, told the press media that they formed brigades to fight dengue with health workers, members of community networks, and work teams from the sectors of the Family and Community Health model.

According to the Vice-Minister, the special brigades will work in the investigation through which they will call people with fever to attend them immediately, in addition to carrying out neighborhood and community fairs to provide medical attention to the sick people.

As part of the actions, they will carry out weekly evaluation meetings and will train more networks to look for people with fever and increase all the necessary work for the elimination of breeding sites of the aedes aegypti mosquito, which causes the disease.

The Minsa reported on Monday a decrease in positive cases of malaria, influenza, leptospirosis and pneumonia in the last week, while confirmed cases of dengue fever increased.

According to the Pan American Health Organization, dengue has a seasonal behavior, whose pattern corresponds to the warmest and rainiest months.

The disease is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito infected with one of the four serotypes of the dengue virus; and the infection may be asymptomatic or present with symptoms ranging from moderate to high fever with intense headache, among other characteristics.

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