The dengue epidemic, which has hit Brazil with unusual aggressiveness since the beginning of this year, has killed at least 2,072 people until this Tuesday. The figures released Tuesday by Brazil’s Health Ministry are the highest since monitoring of the disease began 24 years ago.
To give an idea of the aggressiveness of dengue fever in 2024, the disease killed 1,094 people in last year, which has so far held a record for deaths. In other words, in just four months of this year, dengue fever has already killed almost a thousand more people than in the entire 12 months of 2023, and there is still a long way to go until the end of the year.
In the first four months of last year, which also saw a severe dengue epidemic but without the gigantic proportions that hit Brazil this year, the total number of deaths from the disease was 671. In other words, this year, over the same period, another 1,401 people died from the dangerous disease.
Until this Tuesday, also according to data published by the Ministry of Health, the number of dengue cases in Brazil’s 27 states was 4,176,810, also the highest in the last 24 years. In the first four months of 2023, the total number of cases was 989,924, four times less than this year.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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