EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DENGUE FEVER IN RIO CLARO FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1996 TO 2010

Dengue fever has become a cause for extreme concern worldwide in recent years because with about millions of people infected for year, threatening 2.5 million people and resulting in the hospitalization of 500,000 for year. This epidemic is considered the most important arboviral disease that affects humans. In the Sao Paulo State, the infestation by the vector occurred in 1985, and the weather conditions and synanthropic environment provided ideal conditions for the proliferation of Aedes aegypti and later, in 1990, to the circulation of the dengue virus. Based on this perspective the objective of this paper is making a diagnosis of temporal evolution of the dengue fever epidemic in Rio Claro - SP, for the period from 1996 to 2010.