In den ersten Monaten 2024 wurde eine auffallend hohe reiseassoziierte Denguefieber-Fallzahl gemeldet. So spiegeln auch deutsche Reisende die aktuell hohe Denguefieber-Inzidenz weltweit.
⚠️ Reisenden in #Dengue-Endemiegebiete wird empfohlen, sich vor Mücken zu schützen.
Reiserückkehrern nach 🇩🇪 in Regionen mit Ae. albopictus (Asiatische Tigermücke) wird im Sommer & Frühherbst bis 14 Tage nach der Reise Mückenschutz empfohlen, um Transmissionen zu verhindern.
File import/export in R is simple and elegant with the {rio} #rstats 📦. It uses just 2 main functions for dozens of file types: import() and export(). Whether .zip, .xlsx, Google sheets, json, .rds, .csv or more, rio handles file-extension checks and selecting the right functions. http://gesistsa.github.io/rio/
There's also a convert() function.
One of my favorite R packages!
By Thomas J. Leeper, Chung-hong Chan, David Schoch & Jason Becker @rstats
We were looking at the #Dengue data for #Peru using #RStats, and that is when rio::import() failed after reading only 87,872 records out of the expected 501,692 -- readr::read_csv() worked, reading the whole thing w/ a warning.
LOL that house is located in Puntarenas, which according to this article in PubMed:
"Puntarenas is one of the cities of Costa Rica where dengue was first reported in 1993 (Guzmán et al. 1998)....This city presents some of the common problems of many larger cities in Latin America: poor urban planning, high unemployment rates, poverty, poor solid waste management, among others (INEC 2002). Its urban and environmental conditions make this city an appropriate environment for the presence of A. aegypti and consequently dengue."
I thought I would be feeling better today...
Pains are much fewer, but I still can barely eat, staying out of bed for more than a few minutes is completely exhausting, and eyes are too tired for me to watch or read anything.
At least 20 people have died, and more than 30,000 have been infected by a wave of dengue in Central America, where Guatemala and Panama have the highest death toll this year. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned last week that Latin America and the Caribbean will experience their “worst dengue season,”...
1/ 🌏 Die Empfehlungen zu Reiseimpfungen der #STIKO wurden gemeinsam mit der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Tropenmedizin, Reisemedizin und Globale Gesundheit e.V. #DTG ergänzt und überarbeitet.
A health worker releases mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which are expected to block the spread of dengue fever, in Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
#Dengue #OneHealth
Since it is trending in Argentina and elsewhere in the world, a simple observation:
"Humans are the main host reservoir for dengue, but a meta-analysis by Gwee et al., considers how different animals may be involved in maintaining the virus in an enzootic cycle [52]. The results of the meta-analysis showed that dengue virus is present in 10.1% of bats, 34.1% of pigs and 27.3% of non-human primates."
Wie gefährlich ist #Dengue-Fieber? @ZDF war im Institut für Internationale Gesundheit der #CharitéBerlin & hat dort mit einer betroffenen Patientin sowie Direktorin Prof. Beate Kampmann über die #Tropenkrankheit und die neue Impfung gesprochen.
"Brazil is seeing an unprecedented surge in dengue, a viral disease that can cause excruciating pains and is sometimes fatal. Its spread is fueled by a hot rainy season and Brazil’s rapid, unplanned urbanization. Health officials have reported more than 1 million suspected cases in January and February, four times as many as in the same period in 2023, and hundreds have died. But the country has far too little vaccine to protect its population." #Dengue#PublicHealth#Vaccines
"Peru declared a health emergency in most of its provinces on Monday due to a growing number of dengue cases that are occurring at a time of higher than usual temperatures caused by the El Nino weather pattern...the number of dengue cases registered during the first seven weeks of this year is twice as high as during the same period in 2023 – with more than 31,000 cases recorded."
Anita Jose Rodrigues, 10, receives the dengue vaccine Qdenga during a vaccination campaign, at the Parque das Tribos in Manaus, Brazil February 22. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
A bad outbreak of #dengue in Brazil - and a warning that climate change is shifting the vector's range.
"The World Health Organization has warned that dengue is rapidly becoming an urgent global health problem, with a record number of cases last year and outbreaks in places, such as France, that have historically never reported the disease." #Virology#InfectiousDisease#climatechange
:alert_rgb: PSA: crianças, já esvaziaram qualquer recipiente que acumule água no quintal? Colocaram areia no vasinho de plantas? Cuidaram das valas de escoamento de água?
A dengue está avançando e não podemos dar bobeira. Não deixe água parada.
Dhaka women suffer more when climate change worsens the dengue situation
"Lamiya's case explains how healthcare is inaccessible for the poor in Dhaka.
Many women sacrifice their health to save household incomes. And the consequences are worse when climate change intensifies vector-borne diseases like dengue across the densely populated capital."
"Roughly 4.7 million people have been infected with #dengue fever so far in 2024, an explosion of cases centered in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Heavy precipitation from El Nino and the ongoing effects of human-driven climate change have fostered conditions in which #mosquitoes that carry the disease can thrive."
The city of Dourados in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul on Wednesday began the country's first mass vaccination against dengue, the city's government said....
Das #Dengue-Virus ist ein ehemals tropischer Krankheitserreger, der jetzt auch in Europa heimisch wird. Vor allem aber kann bei Dengue ein ungewöhnlicher Immunmechanismus die Krankheit deutlich schwerer verlaufen lassen: infektionsverstärkende Antikörper.
Dengue Outbreak Ravages Central America: Guatemala and Panama Hardest Hit (ticotimes.net)
At least 20 people have died, and more than 30,000 have been infected by a wave of dengue in Central America, where Guatemala and Panama have the highest death toll this year. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned last week that Latin America and the Caribbean will experience their “worst dengue season,”...
Brazilian city begins first mass vaccination against dengue (www.reuters.com)
The city of Dourados in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul on Wednesday began the country's first mass vaccination against dengue, the city's government said....