Dengue cases in Argentina have risen by 61%, according to the national health ministry’s most recent epidemiological bulletin.

Most cases — nearly 95% — of this mosquito-borne disease were registered in the hot, humid northeast provinces of Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa and Misiones, but it is also spreading in Buenos Aires.

In the last two weeks of December and the first two of January, 16,141 dengue cases were registered. That was up by 61% from the 10,056 cases in the previous week’s National Epidemiology Bulletin, which covered the final three weeks of December and the........

© Buenos Aires Herald