(26 Mar 2024)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 26 March 2024
1. Various of people standing in line at a hospital with dengue symptoms
2. Fernanda Donato standing with her son Federico Ginter, 17, right
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernanda Donato, mother of a son with dengue symptoms:
"He can't stand. He has a lot of body pain and a lot of headaches and the fever drops to 38.5 (101.3° Fahrenheit) and rises again to 40 degrees Celsius (104 °Fahrenheit), it has been like this since yesterday."
4. Various of Andrez Vignau, 73, having blood extracted
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andrez Vignau, 73, with dengue symptoms:
"I have a fever and a lot of body pain. Pain in the body, terrible."
6. Various of people in line with dengue symptoms
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Luis Eduardo Castañiza, director of Hospital Enrique Tornu:
"It is the first time we have an outbreak of these characteristics, although we already had dengue at first imported, then autochthonous. This time, exponential growth has been very important. The immediate fever units (IFU) care for approximately between 200 and 300 patients (per day)."
8. Various of city workers loading pesticides
9. City workers spraying mosquito pesticide in a park
10. Mosquito
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ianina Perez, holding her dog in the park:
"You are very afraid of the development of the disease. Someone who is older also has a hard time, but grandparents and children are the most defenseless."
12. Various of city workers spraying mosquito pesticide in a park
STORYLINE:
Dozens of people gathered on Tuesday in the emergency rooms of hospitals in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area amid the worst wave of dengue in Argentina that has caused some 151,000 infections and 106 deaths in the last seven months.
Some of the patients waiting to be treated, covered with masks to protect their immune systems, had fevers of more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and severe headaches and body aches.
In March, infections due to the disease caused by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito skyrocketed, coinciding with the fall of heavy rains in the Argentine capital and nearby towns.
Experts have warned that in April, egg-laying activity generally increases.
Until May, mosquito populations will be high in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires and the province of the same name.
The most important prevention measure is the elimination of all mosquito breeding sites, that is, all containers that contain water both inside and around houses, according to health officials.
AP video by Victor R. Caivano
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