Dengue Outbreak in Peru: 200K Cases, 200 Dead

Dengue Outbreak

As an El Nio weather phenomenon brings heavy precipitation and insects, Peru’s biggest dengue outbreak on record might get worse, pushing the death toll for the year above 200 with almost 130,000 cases reported, the health ministry warned on Thursday.

 

Dengue fever is a tropical illness spread by a mosquito called Aedes aegypti. That may result in a high temperature, headache, vomiting, muscle, and joint discomfort, and occasionally even fatality.

 

The state’s health regulator experts

The states health regulator experts

El Nio, an organic weather phenomenon, has been cited by the state’s health experts as being one of the main causes of the increase in instances. 

El Nio is a periodic warming of the oceans and weather that intensifies tropical cyclones in the Pacific Ocean. Thereby increasing rainfall and the risk of flooding in the area. Because of the buildup of fluids in the cities. A surge in rainfall causes mosquito populations to multiply in large numbers.

 

Peru’s medical professionals

In an effort to stop reproduction, Peruvian health officials forbid citizens from keeping standing water in open containers. 

Dengue outbreak kills, according to a statement made on Tuesday by Health Minister Rosa Gutiérrez. Therefore, please assist me in getting rid of mosquito breeding grounds.

El Nio has officially begun, according to a statement made on June 8 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States. The colder La Nia pattern has characterized the last three years.

 

According to scientists, this year is particularly concerning. The world experienced the warmest year on record in 2016, the year of the final powerful El Nio. 

Michelle L’Heureux, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, said, “We’re in uncharted terrain.

 

On Thursday, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte issued a proclamation establishing a two-month “state of urgency” in 18 of the nation’s 24 regions. In order to facilitate prompt government action in response to the “imminent threat from excessive weather” this year and the following year.

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