Cuba will host an international course on dengue and arbovirus

Havana, Aug 2 (RHC) Cuba will host the 18th International Course on Dengue and other emerging Arboviruses, which will take place from August 14 to 25 at the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK).

According to the Infomed health network, severe acute hepatitis of unknown etiology, monkeypox, Ebola outbreaks, the confluence of Covid- 19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus have emerged in some countries just over three years after the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to this, dengue has recovered the figures reported before the pandemic, only in the region of the Americas.

The four viral serotypes continue to circulate. There is also a gradual increase in chikungunya and to a lesser extent in zika, while reports of mayaro and oropouche cases are becoming more frequent every day.

In this context, the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and its Control, the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, the Cuban Society of Microbiology and Parasitology, the Ministry of Public Health and the United Nations health agencies will develop the next international course on arboviruses.

The event will offer a space for updating and discussing the epidemiological situation and advances in knowledge, prevention and control of arboviral diseases with special reference to chikungunya, zika, yellow fever, mayaro and oropouche.

Topics of interest related to the clinical management of patients, vector control, advances in pathogenesis research, vaccines, antivirals, individual genetics, viruses and the vector, and new control tools will be presented.

There will also be a debate about the influence of climate change on the emergence of diseases transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and the confrontation of outbreaks in the new scenario of co-circulation of arboviruses. Likewise, international initiatives and their impact on emerging control of arboviral diseases will be shared.

According to the announcement, the course's objectives are for doctors, virologists, immunologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, entomologists, health administrators, together with professors from prestigious national and international institutions to discuss the most relevant and current aspects of various diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti.

Among the general topics of the meeting will also be the One Health approach to combat dengue, the Global Arbovirus Initiative, Covid-19 in the emergency of dengue and other arboviruses, and integrated surveillance in the context of co-circulation of arboviruses. (Source: PL)