Honduras: Four more suspected dengue deaths

Previously reported here:

Total Deaths 2010: 56. Contracted hemorrhagic type: 1,099

13 of the 56 deaths occurred last week:

In epidemiological week 31, Health confirmed 13 new deaths. In the capital there are 14 patients in serious condition because of the deadly disease

08/16/1910
Tegucigalpa , ,

Honduras Honduras

A civil engineer became the last person to die from dengue, in the last hours in the Hospital Escuela.

Gustavo Funez, 25, was admitted to the main medical center in the early hours of Sunday and died nine hours later.
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A report from the forensic medicine department of the hospital during the weekend, four people died of dengue, including two girls and two adults.

To date, health authorities have confirmed 56 deaths caused by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

The death toll this year represents a fatality rate of 3.2% according to the reports of Health.
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