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Dengue in Brazil

A nurse from the FioCruz Foundation applies the dengue vaccine to social worker Ana Paula Rocha, 41, who volunteered for the vaccine tests. According to what she said, many people in the family and neighborhood where she lives had dengue and that motivated her to be a volunteer in the research. In Recife, northeastern Brazil. The Butantan Institute of São Paulo, on 11 November 2016 developed the first Brazilian tetravalent vaccine against dengue and is now carrying out tests on volunteers to guarantee quality in the fight against the epidemic. Dried by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the number of dengue cases has increased by 130% in two weeks and exceeds 200 records per hour in the country. (Photo by Diego Herculano/NurPhoto)

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