Dengue infections in Brazil exceed 3 million cases
Brasilia, April 11, 2017 – Brazil is facing the worst dengue epidemic in its history, recording a record number of more than three million cases of the disease since the beginning of this year.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the number of potential cases reached three million and 62 thousand cases as of last Tuesday, within approximately three months, although the infection rate has begun to decline or stabilize in the vast majority of the country’s states.
Brazil had already exceeded the record number of cases recorded in 2023 (1.65 million cases) in mid-March and is close to doubling this historic number of infections. The Ministry of Health expects Brazil to end the year with a new record of about 4.2 million cases.
The number of deaths from the disease (1,256 cases) is also a record, exceeding the 1,094 recorded in the entire year of 2023, and is 19.2 percent higher than in 2022 (1,053 deaths). Deaths resulting from the disease transmitted by the Aedes mosquito have nearly tripled this year compared to the same period last year, not counting the 1,857 cases suspected of having died from dengue fever, which are still being verified.
The current increase in infections is due to the effects of the El Niño climate phenomenon, which has led to higher temperatures and increased rainfall across the country, factors that contribute to the spread of the Aedes mosquito.
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