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Significant Fall In Dengue Fever
Cases
Costa Rica's Health Ministry
said in a statement on Tuesday
that 8,033 cases of dengue fever
were reported from the beginning
of this year to Oct. 14, down by
75 percent from the same period
of last year.
During that period, Costa Rica
registered 32,056 cases of the
disease. Hemorrhagic dengue
fever cases also dropped to 26
from 50, compared with the same
period of last year.
The year of 2005 was a
particularly bad one for Costa
Rica, with nearly 37,800 dengue
fever cases and 52 hemorrhagic
dengue fever cases reported in
the whole year.
Dengue is an acute infection
characterized with fever, bone
and muscle pain and rashes. The
Aedes aegypti mosquito is the
only known way of spreading the
disease. The mosquito breeds in
stagnant water close to human
houses.
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