Her Ministry of Health Ivory Coast announced yesterday Tuesday that the dengue epidemicviral disease that transmitted by mosquitoeswhich was declared on March 22 and mainly affects the financial capital Abidjan, has cost the life of a man in a total of 11 recorded cases.
«Eleven confirmed cases of dengue fever have been identified in Cλεte d’Ivoire, mainly (…) in Abidjan“, Said in a statement Virgil, a scientific review of the Ministry of Health.
The nine cases were confirmed in Abidjan and two in the cities of Antioch (90 km from the financial capital of 5.6 million inhabitants) and Dalois (center-west), according to Virgil.
The method of transmitting dengue fever is the same as that of malaria. The rainy season, which is in progress, favors the reproduction of mosquitoes in Cλεte d’Ivoire, where a dengue epidemic was also declared in 2019, with two deaths out of a total of 130 confirmed cases.
The government had then begun mosquito eradication and public awareness campaign to prevent the spread of this disease, which “reappears” on a global scale.
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