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In April, the Health Service (SS) registered 239 cases of scarlet fever, “a significant increase compared to the same month last year” when there were only three cases. This statistic is included in mandatory reporting of disease data from April this year.
Scarlet fever, a disease that mainly affects children, is not the only disease to record a sharp increase in cases. Enterovirus infections totaled 332 cases in April, four times the number in the same month last year (83 cases) and nearly three times the number in March this year (121 cases).
Chickenpox cases have also more than doubled year-on-year, with 32 cases in April compared with 14 in the same period last year and a 60% increase compared to the previous month, when the SS counted 20 cases of chickenpox. Tuberculosis is also growing at an annual rate of 82.4%, from 17 cases in 2023 to 31 cases last month.
In April, two asymptomatic cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, three cases of Legionella infection and one case of pertussis were also recorded.
On the other hand, the number of norovirus and influenza infections decreased year-on-year, although influenza virus cases increased by 33.9% compared to March. Overall, SS registered 2,649 mandatory notification cases in April.
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