Health Sector Expects Dengue Outbreak in Puerto Vallarta Javier Frias - Quadratin Jalisco
go to original August 8, 2023

Due to the lack of water and that the Vallartenses seek to capture the vital liquid with the rains registered in recent days, the health sector has located a high proliferation of the mosquito that transmits dengue fever.

"There is an explosion of mosquitoes in the city," said Jaime Alvarez Zayas, director of the Eighth Sanitary Region of the Jalisco Health Secretariat, noting that despite the efforts of the decacharrization and fogging brigades that are carried out in the city, there has already been an 80 percent increase in the population of the transmitting mosquito.

"The vector and clean yard brigades are making home visits as part of their normal work, and they have reported that they have found inside the houses that people are collecting rainwater due to the lack of water service; but the problem is that they have already found larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito," he said.

In this way, said Alvarez Zayas, an imminent outbreak of dengue is expected in the city.

In view of this, he asked the citizens to cover the containers where they collect water so that this vector cannot deposit its eggs there.

There are currently three cases of Dengue fever in the region; two of them in Puerto Vallarta and one more in Tomatlan, so if this "explosion" of mosquitoes continues, the number of cases could increase rapidly.

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