Dengue kills more than a thousand people in SP in 2025

The state represents over 810 thousand confirmed cases of the disease

The State of St. Paul recorded 1,007 dead from dense This year, according to the data of the Disease monitoring panel. Another 216 deaths are under investigation.

Overall, there are already 810,153 confirmed cases and another 46,971 are under investigation. Only in the capital, there are 59,296 confirmed cases and 2,365 in analysis.

The city has 34 confirmed deaths, in addition to 29 deaths still under investigation. In San José do Rio Preto, placed with more fatal cases, 41 patients could not resist the disease.

Next to Rio Preto and Sao Paulo, the cities of Marília appear in the list of places with more fatal cases, with 31 deaths, and American and Sorocaba, with 29 deaths each.

In common, all these municipalities had a significant number of deaths between the elderly, in particular between 65 and 79 years.

“Historically, the extremes of age are those who suffer most of the complications or deaths for Arbovirus, not only in the State of San Paolo, but in Brazil as a whole”, says Nathalia Franceschi, technical consultant in the health of the Department of Health (SES-SP).

In this sense, attention to children and the elderly should be doubled. “We recommend that, when they present any signal or symptom, you immediately look for a health unit for care,” says Nathalia, observing that the car -Media should be avoided.

Seasonality of the Dengue

In 2025, the peak of cases was recorded at the twelfth epidemiological week, in March, with 56,597 positive diagnoses for the virus. Despite the high volume, the numbers decreased abruptly since the 17th week, showing a behavior other than that observed in 2024, when the exhaust occurred between February and May.

According to Nathalia, the change is associated Reintroduction of Dengue Sorotype 3. In all there are four virus serum (Denv1, Denv-2, Denv-3 and Denv-4) and in recent years the types 1 and 2 have predominated. This means that previously infected people have developed antibodies for these serotypes, not 3, therefore a high susceptibility-when the contractual dense, the body develops specific antibodies against the virus virus, but not for the others, therefore the disease can be contracted up to four times.

“In periods of high transmission, activities include control of reproduction, nebulization or smoking sites and are intensified. But now we are in an inter -zone period, therefore the attention is paid to the preparation of teams and training, both in the control of the carrier and in the care part, for the clinical management of patients with suspicion.”

Source: Terra

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