Venezuelan health authorities, with the support of citizens, are carrying out a national vaccination and fumigation plan in various communities across the country to prevent dengue fever, the Ministry of Health reported this Saturday.

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According to an official note, the plan includes “breeding site elimination” campaigns in which “a total of ten states and 30 municipalities will be prioritized due to the high incidence of dengue cases, with a deployment of more than 10,000 workers” from the public sector.

Through Telegram, the Minister of Health, Magaly Gutiérrez, stated that every eight weeks there will be a “massive” deployment throughout the territory for the “elimination of breeding sites,” an initiative in which, she said, “communal circuits actively participate.”

The goal, she affirmed, is to “achieve a period of 16 consecutive weeks without new cases of dengue,” although she did not report how many have been registered so far.

According to a video published by the official, this plan includes the application of chemicals in water reservoirs to prevent the proliferation of mosquitoes that transmit dengue, as well as oropouche.

Last Wednesday, the Caribbean country confirmed “the first five cases (of oropouche) in Venezuelan territory in March 2025,” without detailing in which areas, and assured that there was a “timely” and “effective” recovery of the patients thanks to a “rapid response.”

Through a statement shared by Gutiérrez, she indicated that “permanent investigation continues in ports, airports, and border crossings,” in addition to “timely monitoring of patients with febrile symptoms (of 1 to 3 days) throughout the country.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that oropouche, a virus transmitted by midges and mosquitoes, poses a “high” health risk to Latin America and the Caribbean, due to the increase in infections, its expansion to new areas, and the possible transmission from mother to child.

According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), since the end of 2023, “outbreaks of the disease caused by the oropouche virus have been reported in several countries in South America and the Caribbean, including areas with no previous history of this disease.”

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