Five Honduran Provinces
on Dengue Alert
The propagation of
dengue fever in Honduras
caused local health
authorities to decree a
state of alert in
another four departments
in this Central American
nation Thursday.
Honduran Public Health
Minister Jenny Meza
confirmed Francisco
Morazan, Cortes, La Paz
and Olancho were
declared in green alert,
while Tegucigalpa, the
capital, is already on
yellow alert since
Wednesday, because of
the increase of sick
people.
In Tegucigalpa, 22 cases
were reported with
deadly hemorrhagic
dengue fever and more
than 800 cases with
classic dengue this week
alone.
Some 4,000 Hondurans
have been taken ill with
the disease so far this
year, informed Lenin
Quezada, head of the
National Program of
Anti-Vector Struggle
against Diseases.
The green alert covers
fumigation, destruction
of breeding grounds for
the Aedes Aegypti
mosquito, transmitter of
the disease, and cleanup
work.
The yellow alert is
declared before a
potential epidemic when
infection indexes exceed
5 percent.
Public health centers in
Honduras will receive
equipment, personnel and
medication to care for
patients with
hemorrhagic and classic
dengue fever, health
authorities assured. |
|
