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The Campinas Epidemiological Surveillance (SP) has issued a warning regarding a category of dengue that has not been observed in the municipality for about ten years. According to the State Department of Health, the northern and western regions of São Paulo have recorded an increase in the number of type 2 registrations and the municipality has already begun to feel the same. Incidence of cases.
Campinas director of epidemiological surveillance, Andrea Von Zuben, said his concern for the "new" type lies in the fact that he's been away from the municipality for a long time. That is, some of the residents have never caught dengue fever with this serotype, which can make the disease more severe than normal.
"We already have a lot of cases and serious cases because we know that when people get sick for the second time, the risks of seriousness increase," said Andrea.
In 2015, the state of São Paulo experienced a major epidemic of dengue fever with 678,000 cases. Campinas also tracked the state's movement and broke historic records: 65 thousand records and 15 deaths.
The best time to contagion is between March and April. The heat and the rain also contribute to the presence of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, transmitter of the disease. The orientation of City Hall must continue rigorously in the elimination of breeding sites.
Mosquito Aedes aegypti – Photo: EPTV Reproduction
The community leader Carmen Souza has seven children and everyone has dengue fever. One of them died of the disease. The story left the woman very concerned about the breeding grounds, which forced her to redouble attention in the interior, at Columbia Garden.
"I was very scared to die, everyone was sick," he explained, "virtually the entire community, do you say your fingers in your fingers that do not have the dengue. "
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