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This year’s dengue epidemic, which although is a commonly seen mosquito-borne disease in the world altogether, has shown the largest number of cases since 1980, said the PAHO, which is also calling for enhanced prevention measures.

Among the most affected are Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico: four countries in Latin America make up 90 percent of cases and 88 percent of deaths, according to PAHO.

Furthermore, the effect on children is the highest level, and they are more vulnerable to dengue and the worst consequences of the virus.

Here in Guatemala, children under 15 years account for 70 percent of this year’s dengue death toll, while more than a third of the severe cases are persons under 15 in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Paraguay, according to the PAHO, Reuters reported.

What does the WHO state?

The World Health America organization, which falls under the United Nations, established that climate occurrences across the region had created conditions of high mosquito reproduction.

The organization also pointed out that water accumulation and poor waste management ensure the reproduction of the insect, the breeder of dengue, Reuters reported.

Currently, about 4 billion people, or roughly 50 percent of the global population, are at risk of dengue infection, as per the CDC.

That is why the symptoms of dengue usually appear 4 to 10 days after the infection, and the disease persists for 2 to 7 days.

They may include high fever, severe or throbbing head, pain in the back of the eye, muscle/joint pains, sickness, vomiting, swollen glands, and itchy rash.

Some of the symptoms include sharp abdominal pains, unrelenting vomiting, racing breath, gum or nose bleeding, constant feeling of tiredness, or sometimes restlessness after you have recovered from a fever.

This means that the second time a person gets infected with the dengue virus, they are most likely to suffer severe dengue. The symptoms of severe dengue may develop after the fever has subsided.

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This is unusual for the area, where there have been at least 3,085 nationally reported domestically acquired viruses so far this year, as indicated in CDC data.

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The CDC has reported that there have been almost twice the dengue cases acquired locally so far this year nationally as compared to the previous year.

Now, Puerto Rico stands for the biggest portion of those cases – with over 2,960 cases recorded. They said the United States territory declared a public health emergency in March.

According to Mayor Emmanuel J. Estrada, “The City of Baldwin Park is aware of the recent cases of locally acquired dengue in our community. While the risk of transmission remains low, we must take this situation seriously and act proactively,” ABC News reported.

About rising Dengue cases

Dengue viruses are transmitted to humans through the execution of a series of mosquito bites. The only common illness to be reported in patients is fever accompanied by aches and pains in the body, nausea, vomiting, and rash.

These signals normally manifest within two weeks after exposure to the infected mosquito and have a duration of 2-7 days. Depending on the severity, most people are able to get over the flu within the week.

Prevalence of Dengue

Local transmission also suggests that the people affected have had no recent visits to an area in which dengue fever is common. Dengue is mostly transmitted within communities in tropical and subtropical regions of the earth – including Florida and US territories in the Caribbean.

This year, there were only two locally acquired cases diagnosed in the state of California, which, in fact, were the first locally acquired cases in California in over a decade, according to CDC data, ABC News reported.

In June, the CDC released a health alert to notify healthcare professionals about the higher risk of the dengue virus in the year.

The CDC reported that worldwide new cases of dengue are the highest on record. The agency also added that cases are likely to rise to higher levels as temperatures continue to rise across the world.

The main recommendation that one can make to do away with the dengue virus is to avoid being bitten by a mosquito, as stated by the CDC.

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