H1N1 death toll in Honduras rises to four

Via Xinhua : 

" The death toll from the H1N1 Influenza A virus in Honduras has risen to four, with the latest death in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, a Health Ministry official said Wednesday.

Bredy Lara, Director of the health monitoring department of the ministry, confirmed the death of the fourth victim only a week after announcing the death of the third.

The latest fatality involves a woman with a history of respiratory disease, Lara said, adding, "we conclude that besides her history, flu contributed to her death."

The previous victims included a woman from Haiti, a woman from the central town of Valle de Angeles, and a man from the southern city of Choluteca.

This year has seen 127 confirmed cases of H1N1, including 71 women and 56 men, Lara said."

Honduras confirms 3rd death from H1N1 flu

Via Xinhua :

" The Honduran Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the third death from the H1N1 Influenza A virus in the Central American country this year.

The victim was a female resident in Valle de Angeles, a tourist hamlet in eastern Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, said Bredy Lara, director of the health monitoring department of the ministry.

The two previous deaths involved a woman from Haiti and a man from the southern department of Choluteca.

A total of 91 H1N1 flu cases -- 51 women and 40 men -- have been confirmed so far in the country, Lara said.

Earlier this week, the Honduran Health Ministry launched a campaign to vaccinate more than 700,000 people against the virus. The campaign will last till Nov. 15."

Dengue death toll rises to 24 in Honduras

Via Xinhua :

" Dengue hemorrhagic fever has claimed 24 lives so far this year in Honduras, local media quoted Health Minister Salvador Pineda as saying on Wednesday.

The minister confirmed the new death toll following the death of three people in different parts of the country, including Olancho in the east, Copan in the west and Cortes in the north.

He said that up to the first week of September this year, 25,348 cases of dengue have been reported, among which 3,346 are suspected of being of the more dangerous hemorrhagic variety.

Still, the number of new cases being reported decreased in comparison with the previous months, he said.

The areas which are most seriously affected by the disease are Cortes, Olancho, Choluteca, Atlantida, Comayagua, Yoro, La Paz, Santa Barbara, El Paraiso, Intibuca and Islas de la Bahia, and Francisco Morazan.

On Aug. 7, the Ministry of Health reported 17 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease."

Honduras declares state of emergency over dengue fever

Article via BBC, excerpt :

" Honduras has declared a state of emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever which has killed 16 people so far this year.

More than 12,000 people have been diagnosed with the disease, which causes high fever and joint pains.

Officials say that in more than 1,800 cases, there is a risk of internal bleeding and death.

The government has promised to step up its fight against the mosquitoes which spread dengue fever.

Health Minister Salvador Pineda said more than half of Honduras' municipalities have registered cases of the viral infection this year."

Honduras reported 12 deaths by dengue hemorrhagic

Machine translate article from El Nuevo Diario :

"  Deaths from severe dengue or hemorrhagic type in Honduras rose to 12, reported today in Tegucigalpa Honduran Minister of Health, Salvador Pineda.

The latest victim is a patient who was a native of the eastern department of Olancho, the senior official said, without specify details. added that patients with classic type dengue reported so far this year are around 10,000. 

With the new case of severe dengue death, also two recent confirmed three who were suspected of having contracted the disease and being investigated by health authorities, Pineda explained."

7 killed by dengue hemorrhagic fever in Honduras

Via El Economista :

" The Ministry of Health of Honduras confirmed the death of three people due to DHF with totaling seven so far in 2013.

The chairman of the Oversight Board that directs temporarily Health portfolio, Salvador Pineda, told reporters that the three new deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever were confirmed last Friday, but did not specify details of the deceased, and his place of origin.

Pineda made a new appeal to all social sectors of the country to get involved in the campaign for the prevention and control of dengue.

The health authorities of Honduras declared Saturday "red alert" (emergency) in 28 of the 298 municipalities in the country because of the increase in cases of classic dengue and hemorrhagic suspicions.

On Friday, authorities had declared preventive health alert in 112 municipalities, about that next Tuesday, at the session of the Council of Ministers, to be held in the southern city of Choluteca, if passed will define "emergency" he said Honduran President Porfirio Lobo."

Dengue has affected more than 700,000 Hondurans

Machine translated article from El Heraldo :

" The Health Ministry found that more than 700,000 Hondurans have had dengue fever once in their life.

The head of dengue program, Dr. Roxana Araujo, has warned that these 700 thousand people "are at risk of dengue hemorrhagic fever, and dengue type that gives those who have had the classic" he said.

The gallery said that this figure is not to make the public panic, but to take measures to clean their homes and eliminate breeding places of Aedes aegypti.

Destroyed farms

Health has so far invested 20 million Lempiras in the campaign against dengue, which has been reduced by 74 percent over the previous year."

199 suspected cases of dengue in Honduras

Translated article from El Heraldo :

" Nearly 200 suspected cases of hemorrhagic dengue have been detected by health authorities in Honduras, recorded so far 14 confirmed cases .

The head of the National Dengue Program, Roxana Araujo, reported Saturday that the national campaign was launched last January has invested 20 million lempiras for the prevention of the disease.

Today, health authorities continued inspections are conducted every week in neighborhoods and districts of the Honduran capital.

This time, it was the turn of Villeda Morales colony, where cells were checked for the presence of larvae and Abbe endowed neighbors.

A total of 199 suspected cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the territorion Honduras, where to date there have been no death due to the work of the population, Araujo said."

Honduras : Health Ministry reports 72 cases of dengue in 2011

Translated report from El Heraldo :

" To cope with dengue, the Ministry of Health of Honduras has 40,000 kilos of Abbe, enough to cover the first quarter of the year nationwide.

"This is a strengthening of the ongoing campaign we have against the mosquito vector, we have portable thermo lists 100 machines, 26 machines, equipment and tomorrow (today) get 20 more, as well as the 100 motomochilas" said Roxana Araujo, Dengue Programme Director. There are several ways to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue fever and hemorrhagic.

You can use the larvicide known as Abbe to kill mosquito larvae. The Abbe is deposited in micro-perforated bags in piles and any water storage container."

Honduras : Death Toll from Hemorrhagic Dengue Rises to 74

An article from Latin American Herald Tribune :

" TEGUCIGALPA : Two children have died from hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras, raising the death toll from the disease to 74, a health official said.

The latest victims are a 5-month-old boy who died in Tocoa, a city in northeastern Honduras, and a 12-year-old girl who died in Tegucigalpa, Health Ministry National Dengue Program chief Roxana Araujo said over the weekend.

The two children died from the disease last week, Araujo said.

At least 62,576 cases of classic dengue and 2,555 of hemorrhagic dengue have been confirmed in the Central American country this year."

Honduras: MSF tackles outbreak of dengue fever

Via Medecins Sans Frontieres, excerpt :

" Due to an alarming increase in cases of dengue fever in Honduras this year, MSF has launched an emergency intervention in Tegucigalpa, the capital of the Central American country, where the majority of cases have been reported. MSF is supporting local health services with a three-pronged approach focusing on medical care, vector control and community education. This sort of dengue intervention is relatively new for MSF.

Already, more than 80 children have been treated in an emergency paediatric ward set up by MSF. Mobile teams are also working with the local health authorities to identify and eliminate sources of infection in 4,000 households in the Tegucigalpa area.

Dengue, endemic in Central America, is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Symptoms are similar to flu, with headaches, fever, nausea, abdominal pain and rashes on the skin. The most severe form, haemorrhagic dengue, causes bleeding and can lead to irreversible shock and subsequent death.

In Honduras, cases of the common form of dengue have significantly increased in 2010 compared to the previous year, with more than 50,000 cases already reported. However, the most alarming feature of this outbreak is the prevalence of haemorrhagic dengue, with more than 1,500 cases reported and 160 deaths - a massive 1,850 percent increase on 2009. “I had come across the previous kind of dengue,” said Herminia Moncada, whose son was recently admitted to hospital with the disease. “But this is different. This dengue kills.”

Honduras : 41 children have died of dengue hemorrhagic

A translated report from El Heraldo, excerpt :

" Dengue hemorrhagic fever has killed 41 children, of all the 65 people officially declared dead this year.

"They killed 65 of which 41 represent pediatric population, more people were children 70 or 80 percent, so it is expected that most of the deaths is linked to that number," said Jorge Melendez, Chief of Pediatrics at University Hospital.

By having an immune system is not strengthened, the children, together with the elderly and pregnant women are among the most exposed population to lose their lives to the disease.

Added to this is that in many cases patients are infants taken to hospitals when their health is very bad for the loss of platelets in the blood.

Although cases of children with dengue have fallen, the doctor lamented that still reported lower earnings almost in shock, making it difficult treatment. "

60 die of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Honduras

From Xinhua :

" MANAGUA, Aug. 31 : Dengue fever has killed 60 in Honduras since the deadly disease quickly spread across the nation earlier this year, the country's Health Ministry said Tuesday.

Among the total 54,000 confirmed cases, 1,796 were dengue hemorrhagic fever which has claimed 60 lives, a dengue specialist in the ministry said, according to news reports reaching here from Tegucigalpa.

He said nearly 50 percent of the total cases appeared in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, while the number of sufferers in San Pedro Sula, northwest of Honduras, grew rapidly.

The numbers of both dead and infected patients witnessed a sharp increase from 2009, the official said.

The rainy season and the breeding of mosquitoes dampened the efforts to prevent and control the disease, although the government has issued warnings and dispatched workers to spray mosquito pesticide in streets and canals."

Americans warned about dengue fever cases in Honduras

An article from CNN :

" The American Embassy in Honduras has issued a warning about classic dengue and hemorrhagic dengue fever, which have killed 21 people in the country this year. Five more deaths are under investigation.

There have been 17,620 cases of classic dengue and 594 of the hemorrhagic type, the embassy said in a warning last week to U.S. citizens living in Honduras or planning travel to the country.
Honduras declared a national emergency last month due to the mosquito-borne virus.

Certain countries in Central and South America as well as the Caribbean are reporting dengue activity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a June outbreak notice. In addition to Honduras, dengue has been reported in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Peru and Puerto Rico.

Mexico also has reported a dengue outbreak, with 16 cases over a 15-day period in Guadalajara, the nation's second-largest city.

There were eight cases of hemorrhagic dengue and eight cases of the classic variety, the notisistema.com news website reported last week, citing the National Center for Preventive Programs and Disease Control."

Former Italian Consulate Dies in Honduras

Via Honduras News :

" A former Consulate of Italy in Honduras, Francesco Campos, died yesterday of hemorrhagic dengue. Campos died in a private hospital in Tegucigalpa, a week after being interned.

Mr. Campos left his duties as consul in 2002, and retired three years later. He was in Guatemala and then returned to Honduras where he was living with a Honduran woman. Authorities are awaiting contact from the Campos family. They do not know if he will be buried in Honduras, or his remains taken to Italy.

19 deaths in Honduras have been attributed to dengue hemorrhagic fever. Cities with a higher incidence of cases are the Central District and San Pedro Sula. Officials from the Ministry of Health reported that dengue cases nationwide have increased over 300 percent this year."

Crof : Honduras: A dengue cover-up?

As always I look up to Crof at H5N1 whenever it comes to his insightful writing. This time his take on the dengue situation in Honduras :

" This looks bad. Via La Prensa.hn. Doctors: Dengue deaths have reached 50. This looks like a case for the Pan American Health Organization, if not for WHO itself. This morning the total was supposed to be 19. Excerpt, with my translation :

The real total of dengue death may not be what Health authorities say it is.

Doctors in the School Hospital, who asked not to be identified to avoid reprisals, confirmed yesterday that the Secretariat of Health "is hiding data," and say that the total of dengue deaths is 50, not the 19 given by health authorities.

These assertions, made over news websites and radio stations, launched a new controversy that was opposed by Health Vice-Minister Javier Pastor."

Please read the whole article at Crof's.

16 Die from Dengue in Honduras

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."

Dengue fever kills 13 in Honduras so far this year

Via Xinhua :

" TEGUCIGALPA, June 25 : At least 13 people have died of dengue fever this year as 10,200 others were hit by the disease, the Honduran Health Ministry said on Friday.

The ministry earlier in the week declared a state of emergency due to the increase of dengue cases.

Health Minister Arturo Bendana said that of the total reported dengue fever cases, 476 were of the hemorrhagic type.

Honduran President Porfirio Lobo led a nation-wide campaign aimed at eradicating the breeders of mosquitos, which are the carriers of the disease. All public offices are clearing areas of still water in their vicinity.

The president urged Hondurans to involve themselves in the campaign.

In 2009, the dengue fever killed 12 people in Honduras."

Honduras : Honduran gov't declares emergency for dengue

Via Xinhua :

"TEGUCIGALPA, June 22 : The Honduran government declared on Tuesday an emergency state due to the increase of dengue cases, a disease which has killed nine people this year in the country.

Acting President Victor Hugo Barnica, after a ministers council meeting, announced that an Inter-institutional Commission of the Emergency for the Dengue Prevention and Control was established to deal with the situation.

President Porfirio Lobo is absent for supporting its national soccer team in South Africa."

Honduras : Dengue affects 11,000 people

Via Irish Sun :

" Around 11,000 people have been infected with dengue and at least 10 have died in Honduras, which has led authorities to announce a red alert across the country.

Over 10,780 cases of dengue fever have been reported in the country, and 461 of them are cases of haemorrhagic dengue fever, with people under 19 years of age being the main victims, Tomas Guevara, head of Epidemiologic Surveillance in the public health ministry, said Saturday.

The number of beds in hospitals will be increased, more medical personnel will be assigned to health centres and capacity in laboratories for blood tests will be increased, authorities said.

Mario Roberto Ramos, head of internal medicine at the Seguro Social Hospital in Tegucigalpa, said the wards were already full and there was not enough space to take in more patients.

'Before, these cases were coming sporadically, but now, we are receiving from 10 to 15 patients daily,' Ramos was quoted as saying by Prensa Latina.

Public health personnel have been asked to set up tents with stretchers, which will be put up around the hospitals to take care of patients in a more stable condition."