Dengue Fever Grows 125% in Recent Weeks in Puerto Vallarta Javier Frías - Quadratín Jalisco
go to original October 8, 2023

Confirmed cases of dengue in Puerto Vallarta grew 125 percent, going from 4 to 9, according to data from the Jalisco Ministry of Health.

This rebound worries health authorities, despite the fact that containment protocols are applied in probable cases and that up to 90 percent of probable infections are ruled out in confirmatory tests.

Due to this, epidemiological control measures for dengue were established due to the growth that it has been registering in the south of the country, reported Jaime Álvarez Zayas, director of the VIII Health Region of the SSJ.

The professional doctor said that in the face of symptoms related to dengue infection, such as fever, headache and bone pain, with medical diagnoses of dengue, a confirmatory test is not expected to implement a sanitary fence in the patient's home and search for possible cases in the nearby environment, as well as fumigating and implementing home larval control.

He maintained that although of 37 probable cases of dengue diagnosed in Health units in the last week, samples were sent to the State Health Laboratory and from there to INDRE, statistically, 90 percent of probable cases stand out.

However, due to the advance in outbreaks and the increase in cases of dengue in other entities such as Oaxaca, where this Friday in more than 40 municipalities the epidemiological alarm was declared due to the infection transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the concern that this rebound also skyrockets in Puerto Vallarta is that action is taken as soon as probable cases occur.

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