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Friday, October 25, 2013

Venezuela recorded 41,938 dengue cases

Machine translated article from El Nuevo Diario :

" Venezuela recorded 41,938 dengue cases so far this year, 499 of them from the hemorrhagic variant of the disease, 26.9% more than the same time last year (33,040 cases), according to the latest epidemiological bulletin for the Ministry of Health.

The newsletter for the week of 6 to 12 in October, said that dengue is a disease that are on "alert status" along with acute respiratory infections, influenza, animal rabies and malaria, among other .

He noted that of the 23 states plus the District Capital that are Venezuela, only Amazon (south), Barinas (southwest) and Cojedes (center) have a tendency to "down" in terms of number of cases, while the other is " ascending ".

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