Costa Rica: Over 20,000 dengue cases so far this year
September 2nd, 2010 | by admin |Despite the strong campaigns to encourage Costa Ricans to destroy the hatching sites of Aedes aegypti, dengue cases now exceed 20,000 so far this year.
According to information from the Ministry of Health, between January and August a total of 20,675 persons have been treated for dengue in health centers across the country.
According to health authorities, this represents an increase of 621.6 percent over the number of cases recorded in the same period of 2009, when 3,326 cases were recorded.
