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408 New Dengue
Cases Reported in El Salvador
Last Week
SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador
registered 408 new dengue cases last week, a
slight drop from the 431 cases for the
previous week, El Salvador's Health Ministry
confirmed Tuesday.
According to a report issued by the
ministry, most of the dengue patients were
from San Salvador and the Western region.
Salvadorian Health Minister Maria Isabel
Rodriguez said people were not following the
sanitary recommendations to eliminate the
mosquitoes, carriers of the disease.
North of the capital San Salvador,
mosquitoes breed in 32 percent of houses,
while 50 percent and 20 percent of houses in
the West and center of the city respectively
had mosquito larvae, the report said.
Carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which
breeds in stagnant water, dengue causes
severe pain in bones, muscles and joints, as
well as headaches, fever and rash. There is
no known cure.
The World Health Organization said there
were about 50 million cases of dengue
infections worldwide every year. About 3
percent of dengue cases could cause dramatic
hemorrhaging, which kills 20 percent of
cases if left untreated.
For this year, El Salvador has registered
3,574 cases of classic dengue and 59 cases
of the deadliest hemorrhagic kind.
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