• RECORD: Confirmed cases of dengue fever surpassed 10,000 in the western state of Jalisco and bringing the total death toll of the mosquito-borne viral disease to a total of 25, per new Government figures. Still, state authorities say that transmission season peaked in mid-October.
• GROWTH: With its incidence growing across the world in the past decades (390 million estimated cases every year, per the World Health Organization) dengue fever has been present in Mexico but number of confirmed cases have almost three-folded from 2018.
• TWO STATES: Latest government data shows that more than half of the 35,594 confirmed dengue fever cases reported this year have occurred in two states: Jalisco on Mexico’s Pacific Coast (10,054 confirmed cases) and Veracruz on Mexico’s Gulf Coast (9,066 confirmed cases).
• EXPIRED: Last month, Jalisco health authorities admitted that pesticide used to spray several neighborhoods in the Guadalajara metropolitan zone (the state’s capital with a population of 4.7 million ) against mosquitoes had an expired date-mark prompting an internal investigation.
