A few months after the beginning of the summer, experts warn that Brazil can again suffer from the epidemics of zika and chikungunya. Despite the reduction in the incidence of cases this year, diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito can regain strength from December of this year or January 2019, when the first wave of the outbreak has already passed in some states.

According to the Ministry of Health, from 1 January to 6 August 2018 in Paraiba 9.064 dengue, 735 chikungunya and 312 zika were reported. According to the latest epidemiological bulletin released on Friday (17) by the Ministry of Health, from January to July 28 of this year 63,395 probable cases of Chikungunya fever were registered in the country.

The result is less than half of the number of reported cases in the same period last year of 173,450. In 2016 there were 278 thousand cases. 61% of this year's cases are concentrated in the Southeast. Subsequently, the Midwest appears with 21%, the Northeast 13%, the North 7% and the South 0.35%.

In the first seven months of 2018, 16 deaths were confirmed by chikungunya. In the same period last year, 183 people died of arboviruses. The reduction in the number of deaths was 91.2%. Already before the zika virus, 6,371 probable cases and two deaths were recorded throughout the country by the end of July. Last year, the virus infected more than 15,000 people in the same period. The highest incidence of zika this year is also in the Southeast (30%), followed by the Northeast region (26%).

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