ArticleCurrent opinion in environmental sustainability2020
Concomitant malaria, dengue and COVID-19: an extraordinary challenge for Colombia's public health system.
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- Severe Dengue and Dengue-Malaria Coinfection: A Case Series from a Referral Hospital in Montería, Colombia.Clinics and practice · 2026Article
- Sepsis secondary to co-infection with malaria, dengue and COVID-19: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Challenges in the control of neglected insect vector diseases of human importance in the Anglo-Caribbean.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Review
- What Is the Impact of Lockdowns on Dengue?Current infectious disease reports · 2021Review
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Abstract
Malaria and dengue are vector-borne endemic diseases in the low-lying regions of Colombia. Outbreaks of both diseases appear during the occurrence of El Niño in the tropical Pacific. We present updated data confirming the relation, which are explained by the increase in temperature. Malaria shows an increasing trend, of which climate change cannot be disregarded. The migration of over 1?200?000 Venezuelans hiding away from the internal crisis has complicated the situation. Further research is needed to pinpoint the linkages between vector-borne diseases and climate variability, but also with current and future impacts of climate change, and alarming deforestation rates of Colombia. The public health system has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the poorest and most vulnerable regions (Pacific coast, Amazon and Orinoco). This note constitutes a call to Colombia's public health system to maintain vector and water-borne diseases services, which cannot become neglected amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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