Despite the city of Rio de Janeiro declaring an end to its dengue outbreak, the State Health Department (SES-RJ) has decided to keep the epidemic status for the entire state. The decision stems from ongoing high case counts and incidence rates observed by SES-RJ’s Health Intelligence Center, surpassing a thousand instances per 100,000 people in […]
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