Thread: Dengue Infected More than 1.5 Million People in Latin Americ

Dengue Infected More than 1.5 Million People in Latin America Last Year

Published January 15, 2011

Graves are fumigated in the General Cemetery of San Salvador, El Salvador. Latin American countries are shellling out big money on medicine and fumigation to fight dengue fever, which killed 1,000 people in the region in 2010.

Governments throughout Latin America are ramping up dengue prevention campaigns after 1.5 million people were infected and over 1,000 people in the region died of the disease in 2010.

There have already been deaths from dengue fever this year, the most recent one in Perú, where the deaths are exceeding hospital capacity – and it has forced the city hospital to install 40 additional beds. The latest death brings to five the total number of dengue deaths in Perú this year.

In Bolivia, there were six dengue deaths in 2010. The country’s health officials are in high alert after 17 were sickened by the disease so far this year, Health Minister Mauricio Rousseau told Efe. Dengue is transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause hemorrhaging or organ dysfunction.

“There were three deaths that may have been caused by dengue although they have not been clinically confirmed,â€

Coming soon to the U.S. courtesy Uncle Sam's failure to protect our borders.

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

Coming soon to the U.S. courtesy Uncle Sam's failure to protect our borders.

You got that right and it's pretty damn scary if you ask me.

Florida Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA and Army Experiments


by: H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Zoe Martell
t r u t h o u t
21 July 2010


With little fanfare on July 13, Florida officials released the findings of a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study conducted recently in the Key West area revealing that about 10 percent, or 1,000 people, of the coastal town’s population are infected with the dengue fever virus.

While the July 13 release made little mention of it, the CDC study was provoked by an earlier 2009 report that a woman in New York State, who had returned from a Florida Keys’ visit, had contracted dengue fever. Within a few weeks of this initial report, two additional cases were discovered in people who had returned from Key West. Over the next three months of 2009, an additional 26 cases were identified, all tied to visits to the town.

Because of these reported cases, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District conducted greatly increased aerial spraying to control mosquitoes. Following the spraying, a small amount of other cases were reported, including that of a 41-year-old Key West man who found blood in his urine and had severely aching joints. Following these additional reports, the CDC launched its study of antibodies in Key West residents and found that 5 percent of the town’s residents have been exposed to the dengue virus. Said CDC dengue expert, Dr. Christopher J. Gregory, “The best estimate from the survey is that about 5 percent of [residents] was infected in 2009 with dengue.â€