Five fun facts about dengue

PAHO in Bolivia has developed a table of numbers and important data about dengue .

A female of the mosquito transmitting dengue can procreate one thousand 500 mosquitoes during his short life.

The egg of a transmitting mosquito measures 1 millimeter in length, is dark in color and is deposited on the internal walls of water tanks.

15 hours after being laid, the eggs acquire the Resistance needed to survive in adverse periods .

The average life of the eggs out of the water It is 450 days, so they can withstand dry environments and hatch when conditions become propitious.

In crowded places like slums, the dengue mosquito flies between 40 and 50 meters; in spaces with less human agglomeration, it can fly up to 100 meters, but in regions without barriers, the transmitter can fly up to 800 meters.

 

The dengue mosquito in history


The first description of the mosquito dengue dates from 1762. At that time, it was named Culex aegypti; although its definitive name, Aedes aegypti, was established in 1818 , after knowing the full description of the genus Aedes.

In 1981, Cuba suffered an epidemic of hemorrhagic dengue outbreak . More than 344 thousand cases of dengue were reported and of them, more than 10 thousand 300 were dengue hemorrhagic. There were 158 deaths and the economic cost of the epidemic was estimated at 103 million dollars. This not so distant episode of the island has been considered as the most devastating and tragic in the history of the disease in the American continent.


Video Medicine: Dengue Fever -- Nancy Rihana, MD (March 2024).