The government of Javier Miley This Tuesday, he blamed his predecessor for the failure of prevention policies that led to the spread of the dengue virus in Argentinawhich has already caused the death of 35 people since last July.
“We do not want to lose sight of the fact that a large part of this problem is due to the responsibility that was had in the failure of the prevention policies that were carried out last year.”clarified the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorniin his usual press conference at the Executive headquarters.
Adorni stressed that the tasks of dissemination and prevention of dengue “were not well implemented,” criticizing the management of the former Ministry of Health of the government of Alberto Fernandez (2019-2023), because, beyond the climatic aspect, mosquitoes have a cycle and “actions to avoid breeding sites must be taken prior to the problem we are experiencing.”
The words of Milei’s spokesperson, who took office last December 10, were criticized by opposition leaders because dengue – transmitted by the bite of the ‘Aedes aegypti’ mosquito – generally has an incubation period between two to seven days.
Adorni referred to the persistence of the viral circulation of dengue, which affects 15 jurisdictions of the South American country, and the proliferation of mosquitoes in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires.
From the end of July 2023 to the sixth week of 2024, 48,366 cases of dengue were recorded – 44,755 indigenous, mostly in northeastern Argentina, 2,204 imported and 1,407 under investigation -, with an incidence of 104 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants. , according to the latest epidemiological bulletin from the national Health portfolio.
Of the total number of dengue cases so far this season, 35 people died and ten of those deaths had comorbidities.
At the same time, the city of Buenos Aires and several districts of the province of Buenos Aires suffer an invasion of “storm mosquitoes”, the species ‘Aedes Albifasciatus’, which do not transmit dengue, due to abundant rain and heat, according to reported the municipality of La Plata, the provincial capital. EFE (I)
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