Overview
- Jalisco deployed 500 brigadistas who have intervened 85% of cemeteries and target full coverage in days, reporting a 93% year‑on‑year drop with 1,832 cases through epidemiological week 42.
- Piura urges replacing vase water with damp sand and reports seven times fewer cases than last year with zero deaths so far, while training 500 sanitary inspectors to boost community cooperation.
- Lima Este’s health network runs a 27 Oct–2 Nov campaign focused on household measures such as covering water containers, eliminating breeding sites, using repellents and screens, and allowing inspections.
- Catamarca in Argentina detected the season’s first probable dengue case and activated domicile inspections with chemical blocking across surrounding blocks while treating the suspicion as positive pending national lab confirmation.
- Mexico has confirmed 10,193 dengue cases this year with serotype 3 predominant and five states accounting for 53% of cases, as Oaxaca reports 203 infections with three deaths and carries out larval control in cemeteries.