Africa-Press – Cape verde. The management of the São Vicente Health Department will hold, on Monday, a meeting with those responsible for public and private health institutions on the island to together define dengue prevention and control strategies.
According to a note from the São Vicente Health Department cited by Inforpress, the meeting takes place after two cases of dengue fever were confirmed in the city of Praia by the Pasteur Institute of Dakar, in Senegal, and the registration of 10 suspected cases also in the municipality of Praia. Beach.
Therefore, he continued, the meeting, which should take place in the early afternoon of Monday in the auditorium of the Health Department, will aim to outline the best strategies to prevent and control the disease and minimize its consequences.
According to the same source, Cape Verde was hit by the dengue epidemic in 2009 with records pointing to 21,383 suspected cases, with 174 progressing to hemorrhagic fever and six deaths.
From January to June 2010, the country registered 305 cases of dengue, with the municipalities of Praia and São Filipe being those affected.
From the end of December 2016 to February 2017, the country once again registered 23 cases of dengue.
In Cape Verde there are two species of mosquitoes that transmit diseases, namely Anoppeles gambiae – vector of malaria – and Aedes Egypti – vector of dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya, concludes the aforementioned source.
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