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Death Toll from Hemorrhagic Dengue Rises to 4 in Honduras| by Latin American Herald Tribune | March 24, 2010

A pregnant woman died from hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras, raising the death toll from the disease in the Central American country to four this year, the Health Ministry said.

The 19-year-old woman was from Jutiapa, a city in the Caribbean province of Atlantida, and died at a hospital in the region several days ago. The Health Ministry had confirmed Thursday that a 17-year-old boy from Orica, a city in the central province of Francisco Morazan, died at the public Teaching Hospital in Tegucigalpa, becoming the third person to die from hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras this year.

A teenager and a man died from the mosquito-borne disease in February[...]

Dengue fever outbreak in Honduras by Ted Purlain on June 22, 2010

Approximately 11,000 people in Honduras have been infected with dengue and at least 10 have died, leading the nation’s authorities to announce a nationwide red alert.

More than 10,780 dengue fever cases have been reported nationwide, blog.taragana.com reports, with 461 of the infected displaying hemorrhagic dengue fever.

The majority of the victims are under the age of 19, Tomas Guevara, head of Epidemiologic Surveillance in the public health ministry, said, according to blog.taragana.com.

To combat the outbreak of infections, hospitals will see their number of beds increased and more medical personnel will be assigned to health centers as part of the red alert. Authorities have also said that the capacity for laboratories to conduct blood tests will be increased.

Mario Roberto Ramos, the head of internal medicine at the Seguro Social Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, told blog.taragana.com that the hospital’s wards were already full and that there was no more space for more patients.

“Before, these cases were coming sporadically, but now, we are receiving from 10 to 15 patients daily,” Ramos told Prensa Latina[...]

Honduras, Tuesday 22 June 2010 by promedmail.org

The dengue epidemic has spilled over in Hounduras and threatens to decimate our population.  It is estimated that one person dies every day in public hospitals from DHF.

There has been a resurgence of Dengue in Central America and some Latin American countries, due in some measure to the abundance of rain, but, as far as Honduras is concerned, due to neglect in the fight against the transmitter of this disease, the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

Dengue in its fatal form, DHF, and classical dengue fever have been growing rapidly, without the population becoming aware of the danger of this epidemiological phenomenon.  DHF occurs in people who have had classical dengue fever before.

The Secretariat of Health sees a collapse in its ability to receive all dengue patients, as there are too many sick people for the hospital capacity.  Accordingly, the government has had no choice but to hospitalize only those affected with DHF.  In view of this situation, clearly an emergency, it is shown that the public health system needs the cooperation of the entire population to address this problem.  It also requires the support of the private health care system, which must adhere to the guidelines established by the Secretariat of Health[...]

Warden Message: Honduras Surge in Dengue Fever Cases | U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa issued the following Warden Message on June 25:

The U.S. Embassy in Honduras informs American citizens residing in or visiting Honduras that the Honduran Government declared a state of emergency on June 22, 2010 due to the surge in the number of dengue cases.

The Honduran Ministry of Health has recorded over 10,200 cases of classic dengue and 476 of the hemorrhagic type.  The disease has already claimed 13 lives in the country this year.  The majority of the reported cases were reported in the capital of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula[...]

16 Die from Dengue in Honduras by laht.com, July 05, 2010

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.

The 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[...]

Nineteen Die of Dengue Fever in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA – Honduras reported three deaths from dengue fever Thursday (July 08, 2010), raising the number of dead from that disease this year to 19.

An official report here said that the deaths included three minors, two girls and a boy, who were hospitalized.

Most of the deceased were from the departments of Francisco Morazán, Olancho, Cortés, El Paraíso, Atlántida and Yoro, sectors with great concentrations of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the transmitter of the disease.

There are a lot of people affected with the ailment and the lack of bed in hospitals forced the Honduran authorities to habilitate other places in several state buildings.

The Pan American Health Organization sent an expert to Tegucigalpa to supervise the control of the disease, and students from the National University of Honduras joined the campaign against the epidemic.

The Medical Sciences Faculty will investigate the 19 deaths after receiving information on a possible mutation of the virus.

Dengue Fever Claims 43 Lives in Honduras by laht.com, edited by promedmail.org

During the past 2 weeks, 10 more Hondurans died of DHF, bringing to 43 the number of people killed by the disease this year in the Central American country, authorities said on Friday [7 Aug 2010].

This year’s dengue outbreak has been the deadliest in the nation’s history, health minister Arturo Bendana told reporters.  Sources in Honduras’ medical community say the actual death toll from dengue fever could be even higher, as some private hospitals are slow in reporting fatality data to the Health Ministry.

Honduras has seen 1025 cases of DHF and 33 628 cases of non-lethal classic dengue so far in 2010, according to Health Ministry figures.  A dozen Hondurans died of hemorrhagic dengue fever in all of 2009.

“Regrettably, dengue goes on causing deaths in the country, despite the campaign to combat the mosquito that transmits the illness,” Bendana said, though noting the number of new dengue patients admitted to public hospitals has declined in recent weeks.

La Prensa, Sunday, October 03  2010; edited by Pro-MED-mail

Of all the Departments of Honduras, only the Bay Islands, Comayagua, Copan, La Paz, and Ocotepegue have reported no deaths from DHF.  Although the onset of the disease, considered hyper-endemic, seems to have slowed, victims are still being reported.  The weekend confirmed 2 more deaths, raising the death total from the disease to 74 so far this year [2010].

Of the 74 dead, 44 lived in the capital.  The total number of cases of DHF is 2551; after last week, there were 129 new confirmed cases.  89 suspected DHF cases were ruled out.

The past week, there were 1060 new cases of the classical dengue fever type, bringing the total number of patients in 2010 to 64,228. Half of the patients are registered in the Central District.

In June 2010, between [epidemiological] weeks 30-33, which was the apex of the classic cases, up to 6000 patients a day were confirmed.  According to Health [National Health Surveillance], the numbers of people affected by dengue continues to decline.