India, March 12 -- According to data from the Ministry of Health, in January 2024 alone, Brazil recorded more than 217 thousand cases of dengue, triple the number of cases in 2023 in the same period. In the State of Sao Paulo alone, there are already more than 30 thousand confirmed cases. Even in the face of this critical situation, two cities in the Ribeirao Preto region stand out with proactive actions to combat the disease: Santa Rosa de Viterbo and Serrana. While Santa Rosa de Viterbo uses traps and laboratory analysis, Serrana uses georeferencing.

Thus, contrary to the rest of the country, which began the year with an explosion in dengue cases, the city of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, in the first days of January, had 15 cases of the dise...