Dengue cases surpass 2005 figures

[NewsWhore]

Many more new cases of dengue fever are being reported, with another 69 last Friday, and the figures for 2006 have now overtaken the totals for the 2005 outbreak. Health authorities have announced an increase in spraying in Santo Domingo's outlying barrios, the focus of most of the cases. Minister of Public Health Bautista Rojas Gomez told Diario Libre reporters that he does not understand why there are more cases than last year. Twenty-nine people have perished from the high fevers, and 126 cases have been diagnosed as pertaining to the hemorrhagic variety of the fever. This number has not risen over the past few days. However, in Santiago where the Minister attended the inauguration of the Center for Dengue at the Corominas Clinic, he admitted that Ministry officials had committed a serious error in not revealing the real numbers of cases reported. In fact, according to El Caribe, the Minister admitted that his people had "hidden information" about the true scale of the outbreak.

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