Confirmed cases of dengue fever in the country are practically triple those recorded during the same period in 2023. According to the latest report from the General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health (Ssa), as of epidemiological week 37, there have been 59,581 infections, while at the same date last year there were 20,511.
Of the confirmed cases, 40 percent are in Jalisco, Guerrero, Morelos, Michoacán, and Veracruz, and just over half are mild dengue (34,301). The number of serious and alarming infections totals 25,280. Deaths have also increased, with 146 to date, compared to 30 in 2023 for the same period. The case fatality rate is 0.58 percent, compared to 0.32 percent last year.
At the regional level, the incidence has also increased: the Pan American Health Organization reports that between epidemiological weeks 1 and 35, 11,671,392 suspected cases were reported in the Americas, resulting in a cumulative incidence of 1,222 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Regarding probable cases, the Ssa details that while there were 115,212 cases in epidemiological week 37 of 2023, there were 288,041 cases for the same date this year. It adds that only in Mexico City, Tlaxcala, Chihuahua, and Baja California have no confirmed cases of dengue fever.
