At least eight cases of dengue have been detected in the province of Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, located in the northeast of Spain.
Oku.Az It is reported with reference to TASS.
According to the information, among the sick are five employees of the “Port Aventura” theme park and two French tourists. The infections occurred in the second half of August in the area around the settlement of Vila-seca.
Catalan authorities do not rule out the possibility of detecting new cases of infection in the coming days.
Dengue virus is one of the flaviviruses that also cause Zika fever, tick-borne encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever, and other dangerous diseases. This pathogen is widespread in tropical and equatorial regions of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas and is transmitted by mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. According to the World Health Organization, up to 400 million people contract dengue every year.
