According to the web, the Portuguese authorities confirmed Dengue fever virus found in the Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Egyptian mosquito) in a monitoring trap located in Funchal on Madeira Island. The virus has been identified within the daily monitoring activities carried out by the Regional Health Directorate.
Dengue is a disease caused by a virus that gets into the human body by biteing the Aedes mosquito. The most common symptoms are fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, pain around or behind the eyes, vomiting, red spots on the skin and bleeding.
Given this case, the Regional Medical Office appeals to the inhabitants to destroy mosquito reproduction sites, namely small water reservoirs, and prevented the bite using repellents and long clothing.
The head of the Madeira government Miguel Albuquerque stressed that Measures to combat this disease will continue and there is no point in panic. The Regional Office also explained that there are still no suspicious or confirmed cases of dengue fever in humans on the island.
In Slovakia last year they registered several cases of dengue fever
In Slovakia in 2024 they recorded By July 1, five cases of dengue fever. In all cases it was an import from abroad, so people were infected outside the Slovak Republic. This stems from the statement of Ivan Bakoss from the epidemiology and readiness section for the Pandemia of the Public Health Authority (ÚVZ) of the Slovak Republic for TASR.
Dengue fever is spread by bite a mosquito infected with this virus. In most cases, it is asymptomatically or has only a slight course. “If the disease occurs clinically, the symptoms are mostly similar to influenza,” Bakoss said.
In the progressive disease, patients may experience difficulty breathing, and gum bleeding may occur if a rapid drop in blood pressure, which leads to shock to death. The fever of degue can also be transmitted by a mosquito tiger. Its occurrence in Slovakia this year was confirmed by the Biomedical Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
