{"id":3901,"date":"2023-06-20T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:43:38","slug":"peru-suffering-worst-dengue-outbreak-in-its-history-over-146k-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/06\/20\/peru-suffering-worst-dengue-outbreak-in-its-history-over-146k-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru Suffering Worst Dengue Outbreak In Its History, Over 146K Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peru is suffering a very bad outbreak of something that\u2019s been nicknamed \u201cbreak-bone fever\u201d\u2014dengue. In fact, it\u2019s been a historically bad outbreak, as in the worst dengue outbreak that the country has ever had. The outbreak has already left over 146,000 people infected and at least 248 dead. It\u2019s also resulted in the resignation of Rosa Guti\u00e9rrez, MD, from her post as Peru\u2019s Minister of Health amidst questions about her handling of the outbreak. And don\u2019t expect Peru to get a break from this outbreak any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s because El Ni\u00f1o and Cyclone Yaku brought lots of rain to the northern portions of Peru during the months of April and May. And such conditions have led to a situation that really bites and sucks: surge in the mosquito population. That\u2019s included a surge of Aedes aegypti,<\/em> the mosquito that can carry any of the four different types of dengue viruses out there and infect you by biting you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dengue is not a fun illness to have\u2014very few things nicknamed \u201cbreak-bone\u201d are. Only about one in four infected with the dengue virus will develop symptoms. That may sound good but in the words of Run-DMC, it\u2019s tricky. When you have asymptomatic dengue, you may not even realize that you have dengue unless you\u2019ve gotten a blood test to establish the diagnosis. While getting infected with one type of dengue virus may help your develop immunity against that specific type, it won\u2019t do so for the other three types. In fact, it can raise your risk of having worse dengue when infected by other types of the dengue virus. Not realizing that you\u2019ve had dengue before may leave you unaware that you\u2019re at greater risk for developing severe dengue. Dengue can be a bit like hearing the song, \u201cWho Let The Dogs Out?\u201d It can be a lot worse the second time around. It is more common to have mild dengue. Mild dengue typically consists of two to seven days of fever along with nausea, vomiting, a rash, muscle pain, joint pain, bone pain, or eye pain. Don\u2019t let the \u201cmild\u201d moniker mislead you, though. Dengue fever ain\u2019t like Bieber Fever. It earned the nickname \u201cbreak-bone fever\u201d because the pain can feel like someone is breaking your bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forbes Peru is suffering a very bad outbreak of something that\u2019s been nicknamed \u201cbreak-bone fever\u201d\u2014dengue. In fact, it\u2019s been a historically bad outbreak, as in the worst dengue outbreak that the country has ever had. The outbreak has already left over 146,000 people infected and at least 248 dead. It\u2019s also resulted in the resignation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dengue","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-at-14.41.16.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}