“The 2024/2025 curve is below the previous season in all jurisdictions“said the official. Juan Pablo Saulle, in charge of the Dengue Coordinating Unit of the national health portfolio, shared the data provided by the National Dengue Prevention and Control Board with the heads of the provincial area.
Lugones highlighted the work that was carried out with vaccination and pointed out that “the number of complete diagrams increased and the work carried out in the dialogue tables was valued focused to work on the specificities and needs of each province”.
For his part, the Minister of Health of the City of Buenos Aires, Fernan Quirosspoke about the real risks of the second dengue infection and indicated that unvaccinated seropositive patients have a lower risk of secondary infectionsimilar hospitalization rate and same mortality as unvaccinated seronegative patients.
Dengue cases in Argentina in 2025
Argentina registered a total of 316 accumulated cases of dengue in the first week of 2025. The Ministry’s report details that of the 316 cases, 274 of them have no travel history.
“All the cases were presented, during all the weeks, at the expense of the notifications provided mainly by the province of Formosa (north) where Clusters of cases were registered in the departments of Capital, Patiño, Pilagás, Pirané and Pilcomayo, although small amounts“, it was reported.
Of the cases without travel history, 40 were reported in the Central region, 8 in Cuyo (west), 6 in the Northwest region and 220 in the Northeast.
When analyzing the trend of cases, the report indicated that “from epidemiological week 42 to 47 there is a progressive increase in the detection of confirmed cases of denguegoing from less than 10 weekly cases to 28 in SE47″.
Source: Ambito
