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July 31, 2018, 11:18 San Jose, July 31 (Prensa Latina) Data from the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica reveal today a total of 282 cases of Zika in the first 27 Epidemiological weeks of 2018, a figure The bulletin of the Directorate of Vector Control and the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Education in Nutrition and Health indicates that 18 of them were confirmed, of which five are pregnant, and three others are suspicious, as well as one case of microcephaly and two other cases of conbad infection badociated with this disease.
In 2017, nine cases of microcephaly and four probable cases were recorded in this nation of Central America, as well as 112 women. pregnant women with the disease and four others suspected of wearing it.
The bulletin states that in the first 28 weeks of 2018, they approached a million 815 thousand 64 potential mosquito breeding sites. issuers of this and other viruses such as Chikungunya and Dengue, which treated a million 175 thousand 205 and eliminated 631 thousand 54.
In addition, he points out that they visited 427 thousand 508 houses, including they inspected 368 thousand 125 and fumigated 59 thousand 383, as well as 22 thousand 443 hatcheries with eggs or larvae.
Car tires, tanks and buckets, plastics to cover, water troughs and pot plates are the main depots where ticas health authorities find hatcheries.
The Health Surveillance Branch report also shows that in the first 27 epidemiological weeks of this year, 77 cases of chikungunya were reported, much less than the 238 at the same stage of 2017.
also reports on one thousand 110 probable cases of dengue, a figure much lower than the two thousand 774 of the same period the previous year, in which five thousand 437 Costa Ricans have presented this disease.
In addition, during this period of 2018, Costa Rica recorded 28 imported cases of malaria, including 18 with a preliminary clbadification. Last year, this country reported 25 cases of this disease, including 12 indigenous ones.
Malaria is transmitted in this country mainly by the mosquito Anopheles Albimanus, which has behaviors and breeding sites other than Aedes Aegypti, which transmits Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya
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