Amazonas had 7 thousand suspected cases of viral diseases in 2024

Dengue

More than 1000 cases of Dengue have been confirmed in Amazonas

The Amazonas Health Surveillance Foundation – Dr. Rosemary Costa Pinto (FVS-RCP), a unit linked to the State Department of Health of Amazonas (SES), publishes, starting this Friday (9), the Epidemiological Report on Arboviruses in the Amazon. The survey is available on the FVS-RCP website.

In Amazonas, from January 1st to this Friday (9), 7,191 suspected cases of arboviruses were reported, with 1,024 confirmed by laboratory or clinical-epidemiological criteria for dengue, 0 for Chikungunya, 4 for Zika and, specifically by laboratory criteria, 1,134 cases of Oropouche Fever. The data is contained in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (Sinan) and the Laboratory Environment Manager (GAL).

In the list of municipalities in Amazonas with the highest number of reported cases of arboviruses: Manaus (3,876), Tefé (417), Lábrea (377), Manacapuru (308), Carauari (240), Coari (205), Iranduba (161), Envira (144), Presidente Figueiredo (133) and Itacoatiara (122).

Dengue

With the report, in addition to presenting the total number of notifications of suspected cases, the FVS-RCP now publishes confirmed cases of dengue fever based on laboratory or clinical-epidemiological criteria. The change in disclosure follows guidance from the Ministry of Health’s national monitoring of arboviruses and represents an epidemiological detail necessary to better understand the scenario.

Specifically for dengue, 7,128 suspected cases of the disease were reported, of which 1,024 were confirmed (by laboratory and clinical-epidemiological criteria), 2,335 discarded after epidemiological investigation. The remaining cases are under investigation.

Oropouche

The identification of confirmed cases of Oropouche Fever occurs through investigation of dengue cases. Thus, in the scenario of arboviruses in Amazonas, there is still confirmation of 1,134 cases of Oropouche Fever (by laboratory criteria). The disease data is contained in the GAL.

The presentation of Oropouche Fever data occurs in a segmented manner, due to the need to monitor the circulation of the Oropouche virus, whose diagnosis is currently confirmed through testing of reported patients with negative results for dengue.

Prevention

The best way to avoid arboviruses is to combat water accumulation areas, which are suitable places for the breeding of mosquitoes that transmit the diseases. In addition to these measures, prevention against Oropouche Fever also involves avoiding entering forest areas and riverbanks (mainly between 9 am and 4 pm), cleaning backyards, avoiding the accumulation of organic matter and, when possible, recommending if the use of repellents.

*With information from the Advisory

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