A patient is attended to by a doctor at a hospital in Villa Elisa city, near Asuncion

A patient is attended to by a doctor at a hospital in Villa Elisa city, near Asuncion

A patient is attended to by a doctor at a hospital in Villa Elisa city, near Asuncion January 9, 2013. Paraguay’s Health Ministry declared an epidemic alert in the entire country after some 400 new cases of dengue were reported just in the last 24 hours, totaling more than 6,000 confirmed cases with 70 deaths in the past three months. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno (PARAGUAY – Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY)