Dengue fever infection cases in Peru 2022, by region
number of reported dengue fever cases amounted to over 72 thousand infections in Peru, an increase compared to previous years. Most of these infections occurred in the department of Piura, located in the northwestern region of Peru, where approximately 15.2 thousand dengue cases were registered that year. The department of Loreto followed, recording around 9.5 thousand dengue infections as of the last epidemiological week of 2022.
In 2022, the