National Health Ministry of Argentina reported that since August 1, there is people suffering from dengue in five provinces. Missions is the province which has major problems, with 50 patients.

The Health Minister Buenos Aires City, Jorge Lemus, informed that four cases of dengue were reported in the city. Anyway, according to Lemus, they were blocked and “there is no viral circulation in the City”.

A teenager from San Nicolas, in the province of Buenos Aires, who had traveled in early December to Cancun, Mexico, was diagnosed with the disease caused by dengue.

The residents of the town of La Banda, Santiago del Estero Province, are concerned about the appearance of a mosquito of a size never seen before. They call it the “supermosquito.”

The Buenos Aires government began yesterday a “prevention campaign to combat dengue in the slums and squatter settlements in the city,” involving 350 thousand people living in those conditions.

The Ministry of Health revealed the budget sent by the National Government to the Congress presents a cut of 7.1%in funding for the coming year. For 2009 the available budget was 6.101 billion pesos and for 2010 is 5.665 billion, 16% less.

The “greatest challenge” is to eliminate the mosquito that transmits these diseases in a joint action with Brazil and Paraguay.

The health ministers of Buenos Aires City and province, reported that the joint operations to be carried out comprise visiting each home, advising citizens to discard any pots they have in their yards as a preventive measure against the transimtting mosquito.

Health Minister Juan Manzur , confirmed that “the Federal Health Council unanimously approved a plan to deal with the problem of dengue,” reaching consensus among all provincial ministers.

Dengue started to spread in Mexico from the tropic area to the centre of the country, which called for a medical care alert.

Tomorrow on Monday, the 27th of July, National health minister Juan Manzur and health minister of Buenos Aires province, ricardo Zin will hold a meeting for preparing the plan of action that they implement next August in order to avoid the proliferation of the transmitting mosquito.

In Chaco, for Deputy, Sandra Mendoza would have won for the party Chaco Merece Más. She is the polemic wife of the Governor of that province, Jorge Capitanich, also former Health Minister and once told to have Dengue.

Graciela Ocaña, affirmed that they will analyze along with an experts’ committee in infectology measurements to adopt after the declaration of the Swine Flu pandemic which was confirmed today by the World Organization of the Health (WHO).

The new infected one join the 302, 15 of which are indigenous.

according to Gonzalo Basile, president of the association Doctors of the World in our country and coordinator of the network for South America.

The press office of the government of the province of Chaco, informed that the minister of Health, Sandra Mendoza, resigned to her charge, although there is no official assertion, the rumors already aim at that will be replaced by Francisco Baquero.

Mendoza would be second in the lists of candidates to national deputies, in the city of Sáenz Peña, for the Front Chaco Deserves More.

Health Department Minister, Graciela Ocaña, joined to the Provincial Day of Struggle Against Dengue that develops in the whole territory of Chaco.

The secretary of Water and Environment of the province, Nora Martínez, released yesterday the map that shows the points of the city with higher quantity of dengue transmitting mosquitoes.

Gustavo Herrera, penal judge of the province arranged the autopsy of a 32-year-old woman, who died for suffering the virus of dengue.