In Rio de Janeiro dangerous disease epidemic dengue fever. According to local authorities, since the beginning of the year in the city of more than 50 thousand cases, including 12 deaths.
Reported that over the past week, with the beginning of the rains, the incidence of dengue has grown dramatically. Epidemiologists are among the main prerequisites for the start of the epidemic it is rainy season when actively multiply the main distributors of diseases quitoes Aedes Aegypti Vzglyad.
Dengue fever is an acute viral disease. The disease was brought to Brazil in the 19th century came from Asia. In the 1950 's, through effective health measures its been eradicated, but in 1980-ies infection again appeared in the country.
From dengue fever vaccine does not exist. Each year, the disease claimed thousands of lives in the tropical regions of the world.
