{"id":203877,"date":"2023-09-14T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=203877"},"modified":"2023-09-14T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:42:10","slug":"ministry-of-public-health-see-a-doctor-early-if-dengue-is-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/14\/ministry-of-public-health-see-a-doctor-early-if-dengue-is-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Public Health: See a doctor early if dengue is suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Salud-Publica-Dengue-Listin-Diario-1024x501.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203933\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Salud-Publica-Dengue-Listin-Diario-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Salud-Publica-Dengue-Listin-Diario-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Salud-Publica-Dengue-Listin-Diario-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Salud-Publica-Dengue-Listin-Diario-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Salud-Publica-Dengue-Listin-Diario.png 1898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health is summoning people with dengue symptoms to go early to see a doctor to avoid complications. Greater Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Crist\u00f3bal metropolitan areas are under a dengue outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health reports six deaths from dengue in the country. So far this year, there have been 7,222 cases of dengue reported. This includes 1,093 new cases in the last week alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Minister for Public Health, Dr. Eladio P\u00e9rez says 3,123 cases have been reported in the past three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Daniel Rivera called for the population to go to the doctor early, stating that if patients are received in hospital centers on time, and treated, no one has to die from dengue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most affected population is 10 to 19 years old, but the virus also affects adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Health urges people to carry out preventive measures, meaning adequate trash disposal and especially the elimination of mosquito breeding sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20230913\/salud-publica-reporta-6-muertes-dengue-llaman-acudir-hospitales_772801.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Public Health is summoning people with dengue symptoms to go early to see a doctor to avoid complications. Greater Santo Domingo, Santiago and San Crist\u00f3bal metropolitan areas are under a dengue outbreak. The Ministry of Public Health reports six deaths from dengue in the country. So far this year, there have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/09\/14\/ministry-of-public-health-see-a-doctor-early-if-dengue-is-suspect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203935,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203877\/revisions\/203935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}