DENGUE FEVER cases reported in YEMEN / PERU / NEW CALEDONIA / COLOMBIA / ECUADOR / VENEZUELA / INDIA / THAILAND / CAMBODIA / COOK ISLANDS / EL SALVADORE / COSTA RICA / HONDURAS / JAMAICA / BARBADOS / NICARAGUA / INDONESIA / MALAYSIA / BRAZIL / SINGAPORE / BURMA / PARAGUAY / TAIWAN / PAKISTAN / CUBA / PUERTO RICO / PHILIPPINES / VIETNAM / MEXICO
June 25, 2008
June 2008 -- Brazil is currently experiencing a Dengue Fever epidemic, primarily in Rio de Janeiro where there are 80,400 cases and 66 dead and in the entire state of Rio there are a total of more than 155,985 cases and 110 deaths , Sao Paulo reports 1043 cases, the rest of the country has experienced 74,522 cases with 43 deaths have been reported so far in 2008. Colombia reports 42,536 cases in 2007 and Ecuador reported 1600 cases for the same time period. Two of the more deadly forms of dengue fever and DHF (Den 2 & Den 3) have resurfaced in Malaysia with 9889 cases and 26 deaths in '08. Record numbers of dengue cases are occurring globally in all tropical and sub-tropical regions (Yemen with 1000+ cases and 5 dead in '08, Peru with 7391 cases in '08; New Caledonia with 320 cases in '08; Mexico, 67,562 cases; Jamaica, 1770 cases, 50 in the past few weeks with 4 deaths; Barbados, 592 cases; Paraguay 28,000 confirmed cases and 13 deaths; Venezuela 100,000+ cases with 40+ deaths; Costa Rica with 25,000 cases and 8 deaths; Honduras with 29,112 cases and 15 dead; Puerto Rico with 2343 cases; Thailand 14,000+ cases and 9 dead in '08; Philippines 10,785 cases with 14 dead in '08; Dominican Republic 6000 cases and 30 dead; Indonesia 14,729 + cases and 60 dead in '08; Singapore 2472 cases with 2 deaths; Taiwan, 511 cases; Burma with 8,445 cases and 98 dead; Vietnam with 18,000 new cases in the south in April - June; Cambodia with over 40,000 cases and 407 dead as of July '07). Spread by the daytime biting Aedes Aegypti mosquito, there is no vaccine to prevent the disease. Visitors are strongly urged to use repellents containing DEET on exposed skin and Permethrin on clothing, bedding and mosquito netting and to wear light-weight long sleeve shirts and pants when outdoors.
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