Af­ter months of Guyana record­ing more dengue cas­es and deaths than usu­al, Health Min­is­ter Dr. Frank An­tho­ny said it ap­pears as though the surge has eased.

For the year so far, 11 peo­ple died af­ter they were af­fect­ed by the mos­qui­to borne dis­ease that in­fect­ed 2,100 peo­ple.

Across the Amer­i­c­as, over three mil­lion cas­es were record­ed and the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) warned that the rise in dengue cas­es may be linked to glob­al warm­ing.

Be­cause of the lo­cal surge, An­tho­ny told re­porters on Wednes­day that the Health Min­istry fo­cused on elim­i­nat­ing mos­qui­toes.

“We did a lot of work on fog­ging which means that we are killing a lot of the adult mos­qui­tos that’s the main vec­tor for trans­mis­sion and we al­so did a lot of work in killing the lar­vae.

He al­so not­ed that more peo­ple are get­ting test­ed with test­ing kits dis­trib­uted to all re­gions and this led to ear­ly de­tec­tions which meant peo­ple could have got­ten treat­ment faster.

Dengue is a mos­qui­to-borne dis­ease and its symp­toms in­clude high fevers, head and body aches and nau­sea.

The WHO said these in­creased in­fec­tions are, in part, linked to glob­al warm­ing. In­creased tem­per­a­tures are said to be con­ducive for the breed­ing of the Aedes ae­gyp­ti mos­qui­to which spreads the dis­ease and thrives in stag­nant wa­ter.