At least 63 confirmed cases of malaria have been registered in the last four weeks in the epidemiological surveillance system, 75% of which were in neighborhoods of Santo Domingo West.
As of the beginning of this month, 294 cases have been reported throughout the country, with La Ciénaga, Hato Nuevo, Caballona and Manoguayabo, in Santo Domingo West, and Las Mercedes, in Los Alcarrizos, the neighborhoods with the highest incidence of the disease that it is transmitted by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito, which breeds in swampy and dirty waters, especially where there is vegetation.
In the past week, the system detected 25 confirmed cases (17 men and eight women) aged between 13 and 62 years of age, according to data contained in the epidemiological bulletin 35.
As far as dengue is concerned, also transmitted by mosquitoes, the Aedes aegypti, which breeds in clean water, last week there were 14 probable cases and in the last month 79 probable and confirmed cases. Most of the dengue cases were detected in the municipalities of Sabana Yegua, Higüey, Villa Vázquez, Villa González, San José de Ocoa and Los Alcarrizos. So far this year there has been 748 cases of dengue, some 127 less than at the same time last year.
Looking at cholera, the latest report says there has been one confirmed case from a 60 year old man in Hondo Valle, Elias Piña last week and five cases in the last month all near the border with Haiti.
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Listin Diario
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19 September 2018
