dengue fever

Italy reports some 50 dengue cases during first two months of year

Published on: February 24, 2024
00:15

Rome, Feb 24 (Prensa Latina) Italy reported 48 dengue cases between January 1 and February 21, all of which were imported, leading to an increase in measures to fight the disease, it was learned recently.

Ecuadorian health authorities are concerned about deaths from dengue

Published on: February 20, 2024
13:17

Quito, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Health authorities remain alert on Tuesday after four people died of dengue fever in Ecuador.

Brazil reports more than 500,000 dengue cases in 2024

Published on: February 14, 2024
00:45

Brasilia, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) Brazil has reported 512,353 probable cases of dengue, 75 confirmed deaths and 340 under investigation, so far in 2024, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health.

Brazil with more than 10,000 deaths in a decade due to dengue fever

Published on: February 7, 2024
10:26

Brasilia, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Brazil recorded 10,270 deaths and 16 million probable cases of dengue fever between 2014 and 2023, according to the Ministry of Health, quoted today by the R7 portal.

Outbreak of dengue cases in Brazil in first weeks of 2024

Published on: January 30, 2024
10:33

Brasilia, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) Brazil registered in the first three weeks of 2024 more than 120,000 cases of dengue fever, a number that almost triples the notifications in the same period last year (44, 752).

Paraguay reports 24 deaths and 11,000 patients with dengue fever

Published on: December 4, 2023
12:13

Asunción, Dec 4 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan health authorities reported 24 deaths and some 11,000 sick people from dengue fever so far this year, ABC Color newspaper reported today.

Cuba develops rapid test for dengue detection

Published on: November 16, 2023
10:52

Havana, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is working today on the research and development of a rapid test for the detection of dengue fever, a joint effort of the Center for Immunoassay (CIE) and the Ministry of Public Health.

DR surpasses 1,000 suspected cases of dengue fever in one week

Published on: November 15, 2023
13:25

Santo Domingo, Nov 15 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican Republic registered 157 suspected cases of dengue fever in the last seven days, for a total of 18,417 possible infections of the disease this year, informed today the Ministry of Public Health.

Ecuadorian province alerts increase in dengue infections

Published on: November 14, 2023
10:50

Quito, Nov 14 (Prensa Latina) The Ecuadorian province of Manabí is today approaching seven thousand dengue infections, leading the statistics of the Ministry of Public Health nationwide.

Italy donates 27,000 euros for a Cuban vaccine against dengue fever

Published on: October 30, 2023
10:16

Rome, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) The National Association of Italy-Cuba Friendship (Anaic), donated 27 thousand euros to Cuba to support a research on a vaccine against dengue fever, in addition to the 19 thousand previously donated for that purpose, a spokesman said today. Marco Papacci, national president of Anaic, told Prensa Latina that in a ceremony held in the city of Milan, a check for that amount was handed over to Cuban scientist Gerardo Guillén, director of Biomedical Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB).

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