Dengue Fever has claimed 54 lives in Brazil since January according to health officials. Hospitals have reported a total of 114 deaths but 60 are still being investigated. Dengue Fever comes from mosquitoes.
Rio has been hit hard by the outbreak of Dengue epidemic with 31 of the deaths. The nation’s largest tourist city has seen a sharp decline of visitors since the epidemic hit by 25 percent.
There have been 43,000 people in Rio de Janeiro that have come down with the Dengue disease since January. In 2007 a total of 25,107 cases were reported.
Jose Noronha, the Brazilian Heath Care Secretary said that next week will see a deployment of 1,200 soldiers setting up three field hospitals. 500 more soldiers will be spraying insecticide and placing poisons where mosquitoes breed in standing puddles of water.
“The intensity of the epidemic has brought intolerable death tolls,” Noronha told reporters after a meeting with armed forces commanders.
Extra health care workers have been sent to Rio to help care for the masses of sick with Dengue Epidemic in Brazil. While the Dengue disease is not generally fatal it can sicken humans for more than a week with joint pain and a severe headache. There is no vaccine for Dengue.
Source: Moments In Time
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