Dental fever: “Explosion” of cases in Latin America and the Caribbean – Scientists are talking about an epidemic

The worst time ever recorded is in danger of living this year or the Caribbean. The epidemic is favoured by global warming and the El Niño phenomenon, warned the Pan-American Health Organization (PAU). Over 3.5 million cases and about a thousand deaths from dengue fever, caused to humans by stinging female mosquitoes – virus transmitters, were already recorded in less than three months in 2024, the Caribbean and Latin American authorities. These figures cause “anxiety, as the cases are triple those recorded as the corresponding time of 2023, year-recorded with over 4.5 million cases”, he stressed during an interview Press Dr. Zarbas Barbosa, the director of PAOS, a regional branch of the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2024 “probably” will be “the worst period of bite fever ever recorded” on the American continent, he added. Viral disease causes high fever and, in rarer cases, takes a more severe form, causes bleeding fever. Deaths are generally very rare, not exceeding 0.01% of all cases. Very widespread in countries with a warm climate, the disease spreads mainly into urban and semi-urban zones, where 100 to 400 million cases are recorded each year, according to WHO. Some 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, live in areas where there is a risk of infection, according to the numbers of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. basic federal health service. The increase in the number of cases is verified in all Latin American and Caribbean countries, but above all in three states of the so-called southern cone: Brazil (81%), Paraguay (6%) and Argentina (3.4%), where 92% of the total cases and 87% of deaths were recorded.