1996: Number of Reported Cases of
Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF)*,
Region of the Americas (by country and subregion)

Provisional figures for confirmed or suspected cases,
to week noted by each country

Country or Subregion

Week of Report

Dengue & DHF

Serotype

DHF only

Deaths

Bolivia**

Week 52

52

DEN 2

-

-

Brazil

Week 52

175,818

DEN 1, 2

69

1

Colombia¨

Week 52

33,155

DEN 1, 2, 4

1,757

11

Ecuador

Week 52

5,189

DEN 1, 2, 4

-

-

Paraguay

Week 52

-

-

-

Peru

Week 52

6,395

DEN 1, 2

-

-

Venezuela

Week 52

9,180

DEN 2, 4

1,680

13

Costa Rica

Week 52

2, 307

DEN 1,3

-

-

El Salvador

Week 52

790

1

-

Guatemala

Week 52

3,679

DEN 1, 2, 3, 4

19

-

Honduras

Week 52

5,047

DEN 3

-

-

Mexico

Week 52

36,538

DEN 1, 2, 3, 4

1,456

44

Nicaragua

Week 52

2,792

49

-

Panama

Week 52

811

DEN 1

-

-

Dominican Republic**

Week 52

89

17

2

Haiti

Week 52

-

-

-

Puerto Rico+

Week 52

4,655

DEN 1, 2, 4

24

7

English, French and Dutch Caribbean •

Anguila

Week 28

1

-

-

Antigua & Barbados

Week 52

12

DEN 4

-

-

Aruba

Week 04

10

-

-

Bahamas

Week 52

-

-

-

Barbados

Week 52

130

DEN 1

-

-

Belize

Week 52

-

-

-

Bermuda

Week 52

-

-

-

British Virgin Islands

Week 49

-

-

-

Cayman Islands

Week 52

-

-

-

Curaçao

Week

-

-

-

Dominica

Week 52

3

-

-

French Guiana

Week 52

364

DEN 1, 2

6

-

Grenada

Week 52

6

DEN 1

-

-

Guadaloupe

Week 52

186

-

-

Guyana

Week 33

-

-

-

Jamaica

Week 52

46

-

-

Martinique

Week 52

430

14

-

Montserrat

Week 52

3

DEN 1

-

-

St. Kitts/Nevis

Week 52

6

-

-

St. Lucia

Week 52

65

-

-

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Week 52

190

DEN 1

-

-

Suriname

Week 52

677

-

-

Trinidad & Tobago

Week 52

3,983

DEN 1, 2

-

-

Turks & Caicos Islands

Week 48

-

-

-

Total

292,609

5,092

78

Andean Region

53,971

3, 437

24

Central America

51,964

1,525

44

Southern Cone

175,818

1,826

12

Caribbean

9,815

44

7

* Confirmed or Suspected

** Only laboratory confirmed cases

- no cases/deaths reported

¨ To be updated

+ Preliminary figures only

• Figures from the English Caribbean comprise suspected and confirmed cases (data from CAREC).

Source: Country reports to PAHO of data originating from the respective Ministries of Health;
regional data compiled by PAHO from said reports.