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And the relentless rain is also why you haven't seen spraying trucks in your neighborhood. The Director of Health Services told us more:

' Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services
"The dengue situation, I reviewed the data for this week gone by and it's the lowest confirmed cases I think for the last 8 weeks. The numbers have continue to come down, now the rainy season is here, our system still remains open and vigilant to ensuring that we don't missed out on those particular cases. Dengue, the topic is going to be discussed today at the pre=medical congress in terms of the clinical management, the updates in that regard. The spraying cycle continues. I know we are getting calls from just about every corner of the country because they feel that we are not spraying enough. We have grown extensively. Our department vector control has grown with the population and the urban growth, but also understand that once it starts raining it makes it difficult for us to be doing routine spraying because you can't be spraying if there is rain. That defeats the purpose of just wasting your money, really."

Reporter
"Has the what is called the epidemiological curve peaked in so far as even with the rain, we should not expect it to spike up again, just viewing it statistically."

Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services
"I don't know if we can expect it to spike or not, because this year the epi-curve peaked 6-7 weeks ago. When you review that epi-curve with previous years it usually follows the rain cycle. This year it has not followed the rain cycle and we were aware that that was going to happen, because of climate change. So I can't tell you, because this year it has been unpredictable."