São Bernardo achieves lowest dengue rate among major São Paulo metros

In the first seventeen weeks of 2026, São Bernardo do Campo — a working-class industrial city in the São Paulo metropolitan region — recorded just 5.4 dengue cases per 100,000 residents, the lowest rate among the area's largest municipalities. What makes this achievement remarkable is not merely the statistic but the journey behind it: a city that registered nearly 6,200 infections in early 2024 has, through disciplined coordination and community investment, reduced that burden by 97 percent. It is a reminder that even the most entrenched public health crises yield to sustained, collective wil