CNN —Honduras has declared a national health emergency after reporting a rise in hospitalizations and deaths from dengue, the health ministry announced on Friday.
The Honduran health ministry has reported 23,037 suspected cases of dengue in the first 20 weeks of the year.
That’s one of the highest totals in the Americas, according to data collected by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The entire region has already reported more than 8.65 million cases in the first five months of 2024 – almost twice as many as the more than 4.5 million cases reported in all of 2023, which was a record at the time.
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