On Tuesday, 11, the State Department of Health (Sesa) released the Epidemiological Report No. 20/2021-2022 on the dengue fever situation across Paraná. According to technical data, in this bulletin, the Paraná coast did not count confirmed cases of dengue fever, a disease caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The analysis covers the period from January 5th to January 11th.
coast
In previous documents, the coast recorded nine cases of dengue, four of which were infected in Pontal de Parana, three confirmed cases in Paranagua and two more in Guaratuba. In the last bulletin, no new positives were recorded.
The Paraná coast has 66 cases under investigation for the disease, as follows: Paranagua (53); Pontal do Parana (8); Guaraqueçaba (2); Guaratuba (2) and Morretes (1).
Epidemiological report No. 20/2021-2022 issued by the Minister of State for Health Affairs indicates that there are no confirmations of chikungunya fever and Zika virus infection on the coast.
Parana
According to the weekly dengue bulletin issued by Sesa, 61 new cases were recorded in Paraná, with a total of 613 infected people. The data is from the new seasonal period of the disease, which began on August 1, 2021 and should continue until July 2022.
So far, 298 municipalities have registered dengue notifications, of which 109 have confirmed the disease, with 79 municipalities having authentic cases, that is, dengue has been contracted in the residence municipality.
According to the information in the leaflet, Denv1 and Denv2 serotypes are prevalent in Paraná, maintaining the same trend observed in the previous epidemiological period.
The report also emphasizes that there is a high climatic risk for the spread of the vector that transmits dengue, Zika and chikungunya in coastal and northwestern regions, so it is important that the population pays attention to eliminating mosquito outbreaks.
With information from Sesa
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