Dengue, a re-emergent social problem in the Americas. Strategies for its eradication

Dengue virus is considered one of the most important re-emergent viruses. It threatens roughly one third of the world’s population, with more than 50 million cases reported each year in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Dengue re-emergency is caused by multiple environmental, social and economic factors, as well as by governmental health policies. Generally, poverty and inequality, existing in many countries, are behind all these factors. This is a review on dengue as a social problem in the American continent, its epidemiological situation and current eradication strategies. This paper also includes the particular situation of Cuba, a country that, as a consequence of the results obtained in public healthcare, the advances in scientific, technical and specifically biotechnological development, and the health policies implemented by the Cuban government, is the only Latin-American nation that has been able to control a disease such as dengue