managua, 3 Dec (EFE).-a 12-year-old boy became the first fatality by dengue so far this year in Nicaragua, reported today the Government, which estimated at 4.744 cases confirmed.

according to the report, the child died on Saturday in hospital Fernando Velez Paiz.

the Nicaraguan Minister of health, Sonia Castro, told the El 19 Digital Government portal that the Miraflores district, Northwest of Managua, where dwelt the children already had been “fumigated prior”.

Castro added that, after the death, the Ministry of health (Minsa) “intensify its fight against dengue, because reported the death of another person in the same neighborhood and, although it has not been confirmed, suspected that it was by the same disease’.

Nicaragua remained in epidemiological alert for dengue since last September, when the number of cases accumulated since January exceeded the 2,000.

< p> Minsa zeichnet insgesamt 4.744 Dengue-Fieber-Fälle in das Staatsgebiet von 2012 bisher bestätigt.

Provinzen, die haben mehr Fälle von Dengue-Fieber, sind Managua, Matagalpa, Masaya, Granada, Estelí und Chinandega, laut Beamten enthalten.

Minister sagte, dass, da er eine epidemiologische Warnung deklariert wurde, Minsa 1,5 Millionen Häuser begast und 12,5 Millionen Brutstätten für Moskitos zerstört hat. EFE