Brazil: São Paulo state reports rapid rise in dengue, Rio de Janeiro state declares dengue epidemic
Brazil: São Paulo state reports rapid rise in dengue, Rio de Janeiro state declares dengue epidemic
São Paulo state
The state Department of Health reported Friday that 88,318 dengue cases have been reported in São Paulo, a number of cases triple of that reported 17 days ago on February 6 when 29,386 cases were recorded.
The disease has already killed 17 people in 2024 in the state. The most deaths, five, occurred in municipalities in the Taubaté region. Next come those from the Bauru and Greater São Paulo regions, with three, and those from the Marília region, with two. The regions of São José do Rio Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Franca and the Barretos region each recorded one death.
The municipalities with the highest incidence of the disease (over a thousand cases for every 100 thousand inhabitants) are Bertioga, on the coast of São Paulo; Tremembé and Pindamonhangaba, in the Taubaté region; Itu, in the Sorocaba region; Botucatu, São Manuel, Dois Córregos, and Mineiros do Tietê, in the Botucatu region; Pederneiras, Boracéia, Bariri, Itaju, Reginópolis and Pongaí, in the Bauru region; Sales, Ariranha, Palmares Paulista and Paraíso, in the São José do Rio Preto region; Monte Azul Paulista, Bebedouro and Colina, in the Barretos region; Analândia, in the Piracicaba region; Vargem Grande do Sul, in the São João da Boa Vista region; Brodowski, in the Ribeirão Preto region; and Restinga, in the Franca region.
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Rio de Janeiro state
The government of Rio de Janeiro declared this Wednesday a dengue epidemic in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The governor of Rio, Cláudio Castro, reported that the state has 308 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which constitutes an epidemic.
There are more than 49,000 cases of the disease in the state this year, 20 times higher than expected, with four confirmed deaths. The 2024 numbers already represent 96% of all cases registered in 2023.
The state announced the creation of a Health Emergency Operations Center specific to dengue, which will unite all health sectors, including Health Surveillance, to provide rapid responses to municipalities. In addition, there will be an expansion to 22 hydration rooms and daily reinforcement of doctors and nurses in the state UPAs.
“We still have a projection of an increase in cases for the next six to ten weeks. In a positive scenario, six weeks. In a negative scenario, ten weeks. Our forecast is for a cumulative total of around 150,000 cases by May. We will still have difficult weeks”, said Castro.
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