Authorities of the Baja California Sur Health Secretariat (SSABCS) reported that the entity has already reported 814 cases of dengue so far this year, with Los Cabos being the main hot spot, concentrating 80 percent of all patients reported in 2024.
The communities of the state’s main tourist destination are experiencing a major outbreak of this infectious disease, confirmed the head of SSABCS, Zazil Flores Aldape, in an interview. According to the agency, two deaths have already been documented this year in Los Cabos and one in Comondú in 2024.
According to the state agency’s database, 613 of the 814 cases have been confirmed in San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas.
Just beginning the period of the year with the highest probability of dengue infection in Baja California Sur, it is about to surpass the figure that was recorded in this municipality in 2023, a year that closed at 686 patients.
The state health secretary stressed that it is important to mention that cases began to be reported in Cabo San Lucas, so since June they activated operations with fumigation and nebulization brigades in the colonies.
Likewise, approximately two weeks ago they began with the same preventive activities in the population of San José del Cabo, where they also documented an increase in cases.
To accelerate sanitary measures, the SSABCS has moved support brigades from the municipality of La Paz to Los Cabos, so that the work is effective and expeditious in the face of the problem.
She recalled that fumigations begin to be carried out once the rainy season begins, and continue systematically throughout this period.
However, she stressed that it is vitally important that citizens participate in preventive measures, in order to control dengue, since, although fumigations serve to eliminate the adult mosquito that transmits it, the larvae can survive in homes where there are water containers.
For this reason, it is necessary for people to clean their yards to prevent the reproduction of this insect.
“Mosquito breeding grounds are all these places where water can accumulate and from there the larvae begin to form. The issue is that, if we nebulize or fumigate and eliminate the adult mosquito, but we do not eliminate these breeding grounds, then in 15 days we will have adult mosquitoes again,” he shared.
In this context, he urged the population to allow access to the brigades sent by the SSABCS to their homes, since they come to explain how to cover water containers to avoid mosquito breeding grounds and also to apply mosquito repellent.
Source: zetatijuana
