Epidemiological analysis of dengue, zika and chikungunya fever in the municipality of Augustinópolis, state of Tocantins, Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Epidemiological analysis of dengue, zika and chikungunya fever in the municipality of Augustinópolis, state of Tocantins, Brazil
Received 14th August, 2018; Received in revised form 17th September, 2018; Accepted 20th October, 2018; Published online 30th November, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Janayna Araújo Viana et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This research aims to describe the expansive and epidemiological characteristics of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya fever in the year 2016 and their relationship with environmental aspects in the municipality of Augustinópolis, State of Tocantins. Descriptive and cross - sectional quantitative research. The sample of this research was composed of all reported cases of Dengue, Zika and Fever Chikungunya, in the year 2016 in the municipality of Augustinópolis, State of Tocantins, made available by the Notification of Invalidity Information System. Have been notified 141 cases of Dengue, 39 cases of Zika Virus and 7 cases of Chikungunya Fever were reported. The incidence rate for notifications of Dengue and Zika was higher in the rainy season. Therefore strategies and measures of prevention and control should always be evaluated and (re) modified, since the vector Aedes aegypti has high power of adaptation and proliferation according to the environmental and seasonal changes.
