Via Latin America's Herald Tribune :
" TEGUCIGALPA : At least 16 people have died from hemorrhagic dengue this year in Honduras, where a campaign is under way to eradicate the mosquito that carries the disease, health officials said.
Four new deaths – a man and two women – were confirmed in Tegucigalpa, while another woman died in the Caribbean port city of La Ceiba, the Health Ministry’s National Dengue Certification Commission said.
At least 515 hemorrhagic dengue cases and 14,609 classic dengue cases have been registered this year in the Central American country, the commission said.
The majority of dengue cases have occurred in the central provinces of Francisco Morazan, which includes Tegucigalpa, and Comayagua; the eastern provinces of El Paraiso and Olancho; and the northern province of Cortes, Health Ministry epidemiology monitoring chief Tomas Guevara said.T
he government declared a state of emergency last month due to the high dengue infection rate and is carrying out a fumigation campaign to kill the mosquito that carries the disease."
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