Honduran Public Health authorities intensified epidemiologic isolation on the borders with El Salvador and Nicaragua, to prevent entrance of a type of dengue fever more aggressive than the hemorrhagic variety.
The measures are part of actions by the Honduran Public Health Ministry to avoid an increase in the number of cases that would compel authorities to declare a state of emergency or alert.
Epidemiologic Surveillance director Jose Angel Vazquez said the frontier closing concerned the outbreak of dengue fever type 3, still not registered in Honduran national territory.
Official data reported until now are that there are 2,176 patients with classic dengue fever and 88 cases with hemorrhagic dengue fever, the latter considerably more than prior years.
Honduran authorities say these statistics are not enough to warrant a state of alert or emergency since the total number of affected people is not above prior periods.
