Daniel Delani
Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Brazil
Title: Territory, Hydroelectric and Dengue in the city of Porto Velho, Brazilian Amazon
Biography
Biography: Daniel Delani
Abstract
The city of Porto Velho, into the Amazon, is located into an endemic area and it has a perfect condition to proliferate the Dengue`s disease. Hence, the objective of this study is to gather an epidemiologic data of the case reports into the city of Porto Velho, since 2007 to nowadays, showing on these results of the hydroelectric constructions into the Madeira River, has increased the epidemiologic manifestation of the disease, In addition we used the information from SINAN. In summary, the city of Porto Velho registered in the year of 2007, 387 cases of Dengue , 2008 = 1092, 2009 = 1757, 2010 = 6410, 2011 = 162, 2012 = 163, up to date 153 cases of an of the 4 serotype of Dengue, has been registered. Moreover, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the city of Porto Velho leave the alert epidemiologic situation to outbreak epidemiologic situation pointed by LIRAa, since 2010; with index of lend register of 4,4%. These information, associated with incidence of diseases in the year 2010, show the demographic impact caused by increment of workers arrived from different cities among the whole country, for the constructions of Hydroelectric into the Madeira River. Therefore, besides the indexes have shown toward a epidemiologic control, the 4 serotypes of the disease and the continuous migration of workers, may have contributed to new epidemics, increasing the vulnerability of the area toward the disease, being necessary the constant prevention and measurements to stabilize these aggravations.