Dengue is a viral infection that infects humans via mosquito bites. Every year across tropical and sub-tropical climates, up to 400 million people are infected.
There are an astonishing 3,500 different species of mosquito on the planet, but only three carry these pathogenic material. The Dengue virus is spread through the bite of an infected female mosquito of the Aedes species.
Of course, Dengue Fever is nothing new to Mexico, Central or South America. It’s a problem during the rainy seasons where the larvae hatch and are excellent vectors to spread various forms of the dengue strands.
However, there has been an increase in the number of Mexicans who are impacted by Dengue in a staggering way. I have found interest to write about this after learning first account of how many people in my vicinity had dengue fever.
Confirmed dengue cases in epidemiological week 24 of 2024 registered an increase of 385% with 17,016 cases in Mexico, compared to 3,505 confirmed cases in the same period in 2023. In addition, a total of 26 deaths from dengue were reported , compared to the five that were recorded in the same period in 2023, according to data from the weekly report (in so far as you can trust it). At the moment, 59% of confirmed cases correspond mostly to the states of Guerrero, Tabasco, Veracruz, Michoacán and Chiapas.
Study Found Hospitals are to Blame
Macias et al, 2019 at (https://doi.org/10.24875/ric.18002681 )
Background
The incidence of dengue in Mexico has increased in recent decades. It has been suggested that dengue outbreaks may compromise treatment quality in hospitals.
Objective
The objective of the study was to quantify the burden imposed by dengue on hospital services in Mexico.
Methods
We analyzed 19.2 million records contained in the database of hospital services of the Mexican Ministry of Health between 2008 and 2014. The number of admissions due to dengue was compared to other potentially preventable hospitalizations. Hospital departments were categorized to reflect dengue-related activity as high dengue activity (HDA), low dengue activity (LDA), or zero dengue activity departments, and the impact of dengue activity on general in-hospital mortality in HDA departments was assessed.
Results
Dengue was the cause of more hospital admissions than most of the potentially preventable prevalent acute and chronic conditions and other infectious diseases. In HDA departments, dengue patient load was found to be a significant risk factor for overall in-hospital mortality. There was an approximately two-fold higher dengue case-fatality rate in LDA versus HDA departments, irrespective of dengue severity.
Conclusions
This study confirms that dengue is an important cause of hospitalization in Mexico and highlights the impact of dengue activity not only on dengue case-fatality rate but also on the overall in-hospital mortality.
It’s been the case lately that Dengue Fever has been present in around 28-30 states of 32, yearly.
More information on the number of hotspots of disease centers can be found here:
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2821%2900030-9
Compared to 2023, these are enormous gains in the incidence of those infected with Dengue fever. My take on explaining this incidence? Twofold
- Exactly what we wrote about here, there may be patents that have increased the incidence and fatalities of the diseases and no it’s not a conspiracy
2. The second, is an obvious one, if you remove everybody’s natural immune system by injecting them with a toxic spike protein programmed to continually fight itself (the very definition of an autoimmune disease), then chances are they’re not going to have the same natural endogenous fight they would if they were to encounter infectious material. Here is one such brutal example of this:
#StayOnTheBall
