The national Ministry of Health published the latest Epidemiological Bulletin. The most affected regions.
The national Ministry of Health gave the latest data on the epidemiological situation of dengue in Argentina. “They have been notified so far in the season, from week 31 of 2023 -end of July and beginning of August- until week 16 of 2024 -mid-April- 396,484 cases of dengue (91% indigenous, 7% under investigation and 2% imported), of which 379,341 correspond to the year 2024″, as reported.
“The accumulated incidence so far for the season is 842 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. In the same period, 871 cases were classified as severe dengue (0.2%) and were registered 280 deceased cases (lethality so far 0.071%)”, they specified in the last Epidemiological Bulletin on andViral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
“With the data available so far, the peak of the epidemic curve for the country level is recorded in week 12 – mid-March, with 55,476 cases and in the three subsequent weeks differences of 8%, 6% and 44% are recorded. lower than the peak number. The cases of recent weeks must be taken with caution because they can be modified according to the successive integration of information by the notifiers,” reported the Infobae news portal.
Dengue surveillance is carried out seasonally, from epidemiological week 31 of one year to week 30 of the next, coinciding with the peak of virus activity, which generally occurs during the summer months. Although there are still several weeks left to complete this year’s measurement, the threshold of record cases registered in the previous season, which stood at just over 130 thousand, has been widely exceeded.
Compared to other epidemic years, the current season is characterized by a greater magnitude than previous epidemic seasons: the accumulated cases up to week 16 represent 3.25 times more than what was recorded in the same period of the previous season -2022/2023- and 9.24 times more than what was recorded in the same period of 2019/2020; persistent viral circulation throughout the period in the NEA region and earlier seasonal increase compared to previous epidemic years; highest number of cases per week: with the information available so far, since week 8 of 2024 -mid-February- the number of cases has exceeded the previous peak recorded in week 13 of 2023 -end of March 2023 – when 18,211 cases had been recorded.”
The national portfolio indicated that “the Central region so far concentrates 61.5%, followed by the NOA and NEA regions, which contribute 20.9% and 15.4% of the cases respectively, while the Cuyo and South regions contribute 2.2%. In Regarding the accumulated incidence, the highest values so far are those of the NEA and NOA regions (1,401 and 1,396 cases per 100,000 inhabitants respectively) followed by the Central region with 806, Cuyo with 222 and South with 40″.
In the report they detailed which serotypes of the dengue virus predominate in the country: “In this season, 3 serotypes have been identified so far circulating in the country, with a predominance of DEN-2, followed by DEN-1 (among both concentrate more than 99.9% of the cases) and a few cases of DEN-3″.
