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The map of dengue in the City: which are the neighborhoods with the most cases

2023-04-21T03:16:48.836Z


The infections are record throughout the country. In the City there are 5,492 probable or confirmed cases.


The

map of dengue cases in the City of Buenos Aires

maintains the trend of recent weeks, with

Mataderos in the lead.

Together with the neighborhoods of Liniers and Parque Avellaneda, in the area that makes up commune 9, they register 

three out of every ten infections.

According to data from the latest epidemiological bulletin issued by the City Government's health authorities, published on April 14, since the

middle of last year

there have been a total of 5,492 probable or confirmed cases of dengue.

There are 77 cases in which the place of contagion could not be located.

Of the rest,

Mataderos has the largest number of cases

(948), followed by Parque Avellaneda (521), Palermo (458), Villa del Parque (326) and Villa Lugano (316).

Liniers (111), is in 13th place.

There is another ranking that specialists look at even more closely and that is the rate of infections per population: the City observed an average of 190 infected per 100,000 inhabitants.

In this list, Palermo does not even enter the top 10.

It is ranked 14th, with 202.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The neighborhoods with the highest contagion rate per inhabitant are Mataderos, with 1,471.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants;

Avellaneda Park (978.8), Villa del Parque (589.8), Villa Luro (578.4), Monte Castro (550.2), Floresta (468.4), Versailles (455.8), Villa Santa Rita (303.1), Villa Real (275.7) and Vélez Sarsfield (256.5).

If these same rates are observed by commune, commune 9 - made up of Mataderos, Liniers and Parque Avellaneda - is the most affected,

with 920.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

It is followed by commune 10 -composed of Floresta, Monte Castro, Vélez Sársfield, Versalles, Villa Luro and Villa Real-, with a rate of 431, and commune 11 -Villa General Mitre, Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque and Villa Santa Rita. - with a rate of 330.3. 

Dengue Deaths

The City of Buenos Aires registered two deaths so far, one of a 76-year-old man who lived in Comuna 11 -in the western part of the capital- and another of a 73-year-old man who lived in Palermo 

.

The first one went to the Zubizarreta hospital, after 10 days of evolution of the dengue disease, with a picture of fever, difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting that had worsened in the previous 24 hours.

From the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health, they highlighted that the man had

uncontrolled obesity

in previous years and detailed that he died after spending

48 hours in the critical care unit

with multi-organ failure.

For his part, the man from Palermo had

high blood pressure and obesity

, and died after spending about a day in the critical care unit of a private sector clinic.

The 27 deaths at the national level confirmed in the Epidemiological Bulletin are

a record

, surpassing the record of the largest dengue epidemic that the country had so far, that of 2020, with 26 deaths.

The other great epidemic, in 2016, had a total of 11 fatal cases.

Argentina registered 41,257 cases of dengue of which 37,914 are autochthonous from August 31, 2022 to April 14, 2023, according to the latest national Epidemiological Bulletin. 

The accumulated cases registered so far imply

a 27% increase compared to 2016,

when the last major dengue outbreak occurred in the country, and are

48% above the totals registered in 2020.

The 15 jurisdictions that confirmed the autochthonous circulation of dengue are the province and the City of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Santa Fe, Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa and San Luis.

Although the bulletin reports 27 deaths from dengue so far, according to local reports, from each province or jurisdiction, dengue has already totaled at least 35

deaths this season. 

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Source: clarin

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