Honduras : Dengue fever, a climate-sensitive disease - WEBCLIP INTER

In recent weeks, Honduras has seen a spike in dengue cases.  Although dengue epidemics are common in Tegucigalpa, this increase is due to a lack of vector control during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The changing climate also impacts the transmission of dengue.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB141294

Date taken / Date Recorded 07/11/2022 8:23 AM

Country Honduras

Commissioning section MSF-SWITZERLAND

Photographer / videographer / producer Laura Aceituno

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Additional Information / Shotlist Albertina, Villa Nueva resident:
Many years ago, about 12 years ago, I had a grandson who got sick with dengue. I had to take him to the hospital. At the hospital the staff treated him and with the blessing of God, the child recovered.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
In recent weeks, Honduras has seen a spike in dengue cases.
Although dengue epidemics are common in Tegucigalpa, this increase is due to a lack of vector control during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The changing climate also impacts the transmission of dengue.

Lachlan McIver, Tropical Diseases and Planetary Health Advisor

Dengue fever is a very climate-sensitive disease because the mosquito that spreads it breeds in pools of water, which are more common after rainfall including after floods and the mosquito breeding speeds up when it’s hotter and more humid. So more mosquitos, breeding more quickly, virus replicating more quickly, more contact with humans, all of those factors combined together with globalisation means that, in the coming decades, an additional one billion people are going to be exposed to dengue fever.

Since July 2022, MSF teams in Tegucigalpa have been working to reduce and control dengue.

Jose David López, Health Promoter MSF Tegucigalpa:

One of the causes that is generating dengue is the lack of awareness that we have as citizens when we wash our containers with water, fill our containers, and the lack of drinking water that we have in the country.
There are neighborhoods where water only arrives once a month, so people tend to fill and accumulate or store water without worrying if they have larvae, and risk having mosquitoes because we prioritise drinking water.
MSF teams visit people in their homes in the most affected areas. They share information on how to prevent mosquito breeding sites and spray people’s houses to prevent mosquitoes.
Albertina, Villa Nueva resident:
 I tell people, neighbors, that we must be very careful with mosquitos and that they transmit dengue. I encourage my neighbors and people to take care, to prevent getting infected with dengue, because although it may seem to be a simple disease, it will cause death if it is not treated in time.
I would like to have a future where children are healthy and where they always receive care within the community.