Case Study: Mosquito Eradication Program (Part 3)

Did you notice that dengue cases appear to have occurred in 4 major episodes?

What do you think could account for the long stretches where few or no dengue cases were recorded?

A graph titled Cases of dengue, which doubles as the y-axis. The x-axis is labeled Year and ranges from 1986 to 1998 in increments of 1 year. Dengue outbreaks are shown in 1986 to 1987, 1989 to 1991, an off-the-graph outbreak in 1994 reaches 16,450 cases, and an outbreak in 1997 to 1998.
Cases of dengue in Fortaleza from 1986 to 1998