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Hepatitis Advances in Tamaulipas Mexico
By: Claudia Zapata Santiso / MetroNoticias | Date: 13/06/2012
Claudia Zapata Santiso / MetroNoticias
Cd, Victoria Tam. -By confirming the presence of 74 cases of hepatitis A concentrated in southern Tamaulipas, the Ministry of Health announced the reinforcement of vaccination in a thousand children.
With the acquisition of 2 000 vaccines were immunized with 600 people of which most are children who live in the area of Altamira and Tampico.
In this sense, its Minister recalled that the outbreak that began in an educational institution is not alarming but concerned about the spread of contagion that could pose a risk to infants if not more immediate action.
"There are 74 cases so far, is the smallest number of cases that have occurred in Tamaulipas in the last 10 years."
Norberto Garcia Trevino Manzo insisted that the outbreak of Hepatitis being controlled to avoid repeating a pandemic like the one recorded 10 years ago with 740 cases statewide.
He reiterated that the year 2000 to the patients served by this disease have not gone a hundred sick and emerging vaccination was implemented is to close the chain of infection.
"I remind you that the second booster vaccination is at 6 months, then we ordered 2 thousand shots in Altamira were implemented or are being implemented almost a thousand," he said.
Manzo Garcia Trevino said biological reserve store 400 dependence vaccines to meet a sudden and reiterated that strengthened health measures in all state educational institutions.
It also implemented a health check operating in the kitchens of schools in which school meals are prepared to ensure that foods are free of contaminants.