Venezuela: Malaria cases increase Bolivar State

Although the Regional Strategic Plan for Malaria in the Americas notes that in the continent, the disease has been reduced by 54%, this achievement does not include Venezuela. In the country, cases of malaria, or malaria, have increased since 2010. So concludes the latest epidemiological alert by the Network of Scientific Medical Societies Venezuela (Rscmv), signed by doctors Ana Carvajal, José Félix Olleta and Saul Pena, and that includes the current status of this disease in the country. “The year 2010 was an epidemic for the country and the number of reported cases was 45,155. In 2011 45,573 cases reported were accumulated in which 92.2% were recorded in Bolivar State, with the Municipality Sifontes which accumulated the highest number of cases with 19,969 “, indicate in the alert. Read Article