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Background: Dengue is an infectious disease, is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, especially in tropical regions. In the last few years, the city of Posadas (Misiones-Argentina) faces an increase in the number of cases that has led the provincial government to decree a sanitary and epidemiological emergency in 2020. Objective: To analyze the dengue social representations, present in the two newspaper publications of Misiones-Argentina relating the results to a predecessor study. Methodology: Cross-sectional observational study with a descriptive design, in which the Atlas.Ti program was used to analyze 46 news articles published by two local newspapers (El Territorio and Primera Edición) on "dengue" where the biggest outbreak occurs between April and July 2023. Results: In the publications it exists a predominance of the biomedical perspective of the disease, information evidences epidemiological data, symptomatology of the disease, and, in a lesser manner, health education or ecoepidemiology, which are necessary for health policies, were dealt with. Conclusions: The population needs tools for prevention and newspaper articles disseminate domestic and community measures to deal with the problematic; sociocommunity information is relegated by the biomedical perspective that influences in social representations.