{"id":8299,"date":"2024-12-11T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:35:42","slug":"dengue-cases-set-a-new-record-in-the-americas-this-year-as-deaths-also-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/12\/11\/dengue-cases-set-a-new-record-in-the-americas-this-year-as-deaths-also-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue cases set a new record in the Americas this year as deaths also surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dengue-americas-caribbean-record-c7ba61d28009533336f23f9b954f1aa6\">AP<\/a> SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/dengue-fever\">Dengue fever<\/a>&nbsp;is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected cases of the mosquito-transmitted virus reported this year, nearly triple the number from last year, health officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dengue-mosquitoes-cdc-health-alert-8c165860c5ec768261be5245733b4a45\">Cases of dengue have been surging<\/a>&nbsp;globally as warmer weather brought on by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/climate-change\">climate change<\/a>&nbsp;enables mosquitoes to expand their reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pan American Health Organization \u2014the regional office of the World Health Organization in the Americas \u2014 said deaths from dengue are also rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 7,700 deaths have been reported in the Caribbean and the Americas so far in 2024, a more than 200% increase, compared to 2,467 deaths in 2023, according to the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of cases in the region, which includes the United States, is the highest reported since record keeping began in 1980, PAHO director Jarbas Barbosa said at a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dengue-americas-caribbean-record-c7ba61d28009533336f23f9b954f1aa6\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) \u2014&nbsp;Dengue fever&nbsp;is sweeping across the Caribbean and the Americas, with a record 12.6 million suspected cases of the mosquito-transmitted virus reported this year, nearly triple the number from last year, health officials said Tuesday. Cases of dengue have been surging&nbsp;globally as warmer weather brought on by&nbsp;climate change&nbsp;enables mosquitoes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":[61,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dengue","category-mosquito-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","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=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8300,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}