Mexico: Durango reports 41st fungal meningitis death in outbreak

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Source: https://www.expreso.com.mx/noticias/...ingitis/169966

The number of deaths from meningitis in Durango rises to 27
El Universal Tuesday 20 Dec. 2022 - 09:38 AM m.

After the massive infections in four private hospitals in Durango, the death toll continues to increase in cases of meningitis, as reported by Dr. Hugo Adolfo Almonte de León, Deputy Medical Director of HG450 at the Health Update press conference.

According to the Ministry of Health until December 19, there are 27 dead people, 75 confirmed cases, 72 women and 3 men; as well as 12 hospital discharges, the latter remain under home observation.

Three patients were transferred to the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Mexico City in order to prevent complications.

In addition, 187 health workers have had to be hired, including specialist doctors, surgeons, nursing staff, nutritionists and stretcher-bearers.

Monitoring is also maintained via telephone with a special brigade for possible cases treated in the different hospitals of the state.
Special Attention to Victims of Meningitis

According to Engineer David Payan, Coordinator of Special Care for Victims of Meningitis and family members, protocol care has been provided to 545 people who were in the private hospitals that unleashed the infections.

In addition, 219 aids have been granted in diapers and milk, 194 aids in free transportation, 358 psychological interventions to patients and relatives. 22 free funeral support for family members and 2,500 food rations.
What should I do if I was treated in one of the 4 infected hospitals?

If you were in any of the four private hospitals where the infections began, which are: Santé, del Parque, Dikcava and San Carlos; and you have a headache that does not go away with anything, come to be evaluated.

There are two lines of attention that are the Special Attention module located at the General Hospital 450 or you can call the number 618 137 91 41.

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Source: https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/202...ango-suman-28/

2022-12-25 20:45
They report another death from meningitis in Durango; add up to 28
Saúl Maldonado, correspondent Reading time: 2 min.

Durango, Dgo. On Christmas morning, the 28th victim of meningitis in Durango died, it is a 31-year-old woman; There are already 25 people temporarily discharged from this disease.

According to the figures released by the Durango Health Secretariat, 31-year-old Dulce María de Jesús died Sunday morning, who had been hospitalized since November at HG 450 and became the 28th victim of meningitis since the first of November that this health emergency was announced.

At the same time, it was announced that there are already 25 meningitis patients who have presented some improvement in their treatment and have been temporarily discharged.

These 25 people will be going once a week to the neurologist at Hospital General 450 to be evaluated, perform a lumbar puncture, extract cerebrospinal fluid to see how much the fungus has been eliminated and reassess the amount of medication to take.

So far, 76 people infected with Meningitis have been detected, so the mortality rate is 36.8 percent.

With the 25 discharges that have been registered, there are 23 people hospitalized for meningitis in six different hospitals, the General 450 and the Maternal and Child Hospital, both from the Ministry of Health; the General of Zone One of the IMSS of the city of Durango and the 71 of the same Social Security but in the city of Torreón, Coahuila; the ISSSTE Zone Hospital in the same city of Durango; the National Institute of Neurosurgery in CDMX and another one in Texas, United States.

There are already more people discharged for meningitis than hospitalized, 25 against 23 respectively.

Of the 1,800 records of people who underwent surgery with anesthesia in the four closed hospitals, 556 people have been medically and laboratory evaluated, 31 percent. Of the rest, many did not require lumbar puncture, and only a few remain to be located. 50 people from those files.

465 hours of psychological care have been provided to both patients and relatives of people with meningitis.

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Source: https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/cdmx...pital-de-cdmx/

Meningitis in Durango: a woman who was transferred to a CDMX hospital dies
Payán explained that it is estimated that there are 1,800 patients who remain suspected cases of the disease.
By WritingDecember 28, 2022 | 3:48 p.m.

The Durango Health Secretariat (SSD) reported that a woman from its entity who was transferred to the Manuel Velasco Suárez National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, in Mexico City, died on December 27 due to complications from meningitis.

Two weeks ago , three people with meningitis were transferred to CDMX. David Payán, head of the Coordination of Special Care for Victims and Relatives of Meningitis of the SSD, reported that the woman's body will be taken from Tlalpan in CDMX, to the municipality of Pánuco de Coronado, in Durango.

The Durango health authorities have a record of 77 cases, 29 deaths and 26 discharges due to meningitis.

Regarding the other two patients who remain in the CDMX hospital, it was reported that one improved and returned to General Hospital 450 in Durango. The other remains under medical supervision.

Payán explained that it is estimated that there are 1,800 patients who remain as suspected cases of the disease and are tested to find out if it is meningitis or another disease.

López-Gatell clarifies that an outbreak of meningitis in Durango is not aseptic and is not contagious

Since it originated from a fungus, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, stressed that the meningitis that has occurred in Durango is not aseptic, during the press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“They no longer call it aseptic, this was already overcome once the infectious agent was found, which is a fungus called fusarium solani , and it is the one that is causing this meningitis.

“We made it very clear, it is not a disease that is going to be transmitted from person to person, this was related to a procedure.”

He recalled that the case occurred in four private hospitals in Durango, where the majority of women were infested through anesthesia.

Up to 1,800 cases of people who could be infected after these procedures have been identified, and they are being followed up.

He reiterated that hospitals where the practice was identified have already been suspended by the Federal Commission for Protection Against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris).

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Source: https://www.radioformula.com.mx/naci...ad-744570.html

Meningitis adds 29 deaths in Durango and doubts about the origin of the disease spread
Almost two months after the first case of death from meningitis in Durango reported on November 1, the entity has 29 deaths and 77 confirmed cases. Written in NATIONAL on 12/30/2022 · 08:20 hs
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From November 1, 2022 until this Friday, in Durango the deaths of 29 people due to fungal meningitis are reported after an outbreak that began in patients who were treated in private hospitals between May and last October.

He explained that about twenty more people remain in hospital, most of them at Hospital 450 in Durango, and one at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Nutrition and Health in Mexico City (CDMX).

What caused the cases of meningitis in Durango?

Regarding the advances in the investigation, in charge of the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), he said that the taking of samples continues in the 4 private clinics related to the infections, although there is no fatal date for delivery of results.

He also stressed that the fungus that causes the disease has already been identified.

To measure the size of the investigation, he noted that in the United States there is a similar history of contamination that took two years to identify the cause and mechanism of infection.

However, he explained that the evidence collected after the operations in said hospitals, carried out at the end of October, obtained medicines that did not correspond to those used in infected patients.

After the first case of meningitis was revealed last November, the Durango authorities closed 4 private hospitals in the state that were associated with the infection: Del Parque and Dikcava, which are owned by the same owners and one of them operated with a permission borrowed; San Carlos and Santé.

Regarding the more than 1,800 people suspected of being infected with meningitis, the Durango Health Secretary highlighted that the number of confirmed cases has been much lower than expected, since up to now they only add up to 77, when it was expected that they could be more than a hundred...

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Source: https://www.elsoldedurango.com.mx/lo...0-9437445.html

Another woman dies of meningitis in Durango; add up to 30
The 30th death occurred due to fungal meningitis, a health problem in Durango that has been dragging on since May 2022
Juan Hernandez | The Sun of Durango

Unfortunately, death number 30 occurred due to fungal meningitis, a health problem in Durango that has been dragging on since May 2022 when the first cases were detected and until yesterday there were 77 confirmed cases and more. of 1,400 people under surveillance.

According to the information provided by the Secretary of Health in the State (SSD), as of January 8, 2023, death number 30 was recorded, which includes the death of a male...

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Source: https://www.elsoldedurango.com.mx/lo...o-9529921.html

Thursday, January 26, 2023
Fungal meningitis claims another victim in Durango
There are 32 people who have lost their lives due to this disease, which they were infected by undergoing surgery in a private hospital

The Sun of Durango |

On Thursday night, the death of one more patient was reported as a result of the outbreak of fungal meningitis, at the General Hospital 450 in the city of Durango, with her are the 32 women who have died since last November 1, date the first victim was registered.

With this death, the 13-day streak is broken without new deaths being reported for this reason, however, to date, 79 confirmed cases have been reported, of which three are men and the rest are women who underwent a surgical procedure in one of the four hospitals that were closed by the authorities and for whose owners there is an arrest warrant....

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Source: https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estad...sos-en-durango

Two more women die from meningitis, totaling 33 cases in Durango
There are 33 deaths and 79 confirmed cases after infections of aseptic meningitis that arose in private hospitals in DurangoStates 01/28/2023 18:24 Francisco Rodríguez / Correspondent Updated 19:10

The Durango Health Secretariat confirmed that deaths from meningitis increased to 33 cases, after two people died from this disease.

In total, the entity has 79 confirmed cases. It was reported that the two most recent deaths from meningitis were in two women who had already been hospitalized for several days at Hospital 450 in the capital, and who unfortunately did not progress to treatment.


Until now, the arrest of any of the seven people, administrators and owners of the four private hospitals where the people were infected, to whom an arrest warrant was issued, has not yet been confirmed.

Although the number of confirmed cases and deaths had fortunately stagnated, the last two deaths were a reminder that the families continue without obtaining justice and without knowing for sure what was the origin of this fungus that has claimed the lives of 33 women and a man...

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/hea...35-2023-02-06/

Death toll from mysterious meningitis outbreak in Mexico at 35
By Carolina Pulice

MEXICO CITY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - State officials in northern Mexico on Monday reported another death caused by a mysterious meningitis outbreak, bringing the total number of victims linked to the disease to 35.

To date, health authorities in Mexico's largely rural Durango state have documented 79 meningitis cases over the past few months...

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Source: https://www.elsoldedurango.com.mx/lo...o-9623892.html

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Another woman dies of fungal meningitis in Durango
There are 36 people who have lost their lives as a result of this health emergency that to date has infected 79 patients
Erika Uribe | The Sun of Durango

This Wednesday, February 15, the death of a woman was announced as a result of the outbreak of fungal meningitis that keeps Durango in a health emergency situation, it is Ana Laura Delgado who unfortunately left a seven-year-old boy orphaned, a five-year-old girl and a five-month-old baby.

Ana Laura is the 36th victim of meningitis, this after October of last year the first cases of this disease began to be disclosed, which to date has resulted in the infection of 79 people, mostly women who came to have their children in one of the four private hospitals identified as responsible for the contagion.

Just last Friday, a demonstration was held in which the relatives of those who have died for this reason participated, as well as some patients receiving treatment at home, however they have resulted in motor impairments such as lack of sensation in their legs after be diagnosed with this fungus.

Regarding the issue, the Secretary of Health of Durango, Irasema Kondo Padilla, announced that there are currently two patients in serious condition, one of whom is in the General Hospital 450 and one more in the High Specialty Medicine Unit of the IMSS in Torreón Coahuila; in addition to two stable patients admitted to the General Hospital 450.

"Let's hope that there are no longer patients who come to complicated therapy," said the head of the State Health Secretariat, who reported that patients who are at home are being monitored either with oral or outpatient treatment, all of them They are diagnosed as stable.

She also acknowledged that so far this year there have been no new cases of fungal meningitis, which they consider something positive.

Remember that last Sunday the hearings to link the process of three of the alleged perpetrators of the health crisis were held, it was Joaquín "N", who served as state commissioner of Coprised and Guadalupe "N", to whom the verification of the Hospital del Parque, a place that, according to the State Attorney General's Office (FGE), is the focus of the infection after being the place where the most cases have occurred.

In addition, the anesthesiologist of some of the patients was linked to the process and who, according to the investigations and files that are in the possession of the Prosecutor's Office, his practices could have been the ones that led to the development of the fungus in these hospitals.

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Source: https://www.milenio.com/salud/mening...isis-sanitaria

Meningitis in Durango; This was the growth of the health crisis
The disease has also left 36 deaths and 71 orphans.
Luis Alberto Lopez
Durango, Durango / 03.29.2023 12:48:15

The outbreak of meningitis in hospitals in Durango has left 36 people dead and 9 detainees to date. There are 80 confirmed cases and 71 orphans also due to the disease, according to official data.

The first crisis of the six-year term of Governor Esteban Villegas Villarreal began in October and on November 1 the health authority confirmed the existence of an outbreak of the disease, one day later the existence of the first 10 cases was established.

Over the weeks there was an increase in patients and fatalities as well. Citizen discontent resulted in demonstrations that began on November 25 of last year, led by relatives of patients with meningitis.

On December 1, the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, went to the capital to give a press conference on the outbreak and explained that the cause of everything was an anesthesia procedure applied by means of needles. to the spinal cord, known as the spinal cord...

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Source: https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2023/...n-37-victimas/

Outbreak of meningitis in Durango already left 37 dead
Since the expansion of the fungus in medicines, 80 cases have been confirmed
Apr 15, 2023

The health authorities of the state of Durango reported that on April 12, 19-year-old María Alexa died, a victim of the outbreak of meningitis unleashed in different hospitals in the entity, thus adding 37 deaths due to the fungus spread in medicines.

The young woman was admitted to the General Hospital 450 in Durango, where she was treated for about five months after having acquired acute meningitis in one of the four private hospitals in the city.

It should be noted that, according to the Ministry of Health, a total of 80 confirmed cases of meningitis were registered since last October when the first case was admitted to hospitals. Until now, the investigations are still ongoing to determine how the fungus spread between the different hospitals involved...

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Source: https://www.elsiglodedurango.com.mx/...eningitis.html


Patient 40 dies of meningitis in Durango
SAUL MALDONADO Jul 6, 2023 - 08:33

On the night of this past Tuesday, Estela Monarrez Mendoza, 30 years old, originally from Santa María del Oro, died, who was seriously ill for several days due to meningitis; With this case, Durango accumulates 40 deaths from this disease.

Estela was the 80th positive patient with meningitis; She was infected in September during surgery at the Hospital del Parque, and despite having symptoms, she did not go to the puncture test until February of this year.

However, she had been in serious condition and hospitalized for several days, and on Tuesday night, around 10:00 p.m., her death was finally recorded.

So far there are 80 positive cases of meningitis and 40 deaths, with which Durango accumulates a mortality rate of 50 percent.

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Source: https://vanguardia.com.mx/noticias/v...anos-FA8651315

There are 41 victims of meningitis in Durango, a 29-year-old woman died
News
/ July 23, 2023

This Sunday, victim 41 died of meningitis in Durango, who had been hospitalized since Friday at Hospital 450 in the state capital.

The woman was identified as Carmen, 29 years old and originally from the municipality of Santiago Papasquiaro.

Carmen was admitted to the hospital last Sunday for an embolism and already had total loss of sight, revealed David Payán, in charge of care for victims and relatives of the meningitis crisis.

The patient's operation took place at the Hospital del Parque, where the largest number of cases and deaths were generated.

And although she was a beneficiary of the Institute of Social Security and State Worker Services (ISSSTE), the family decided at the beginning of the health crisis to be treated at Hospital 450, since it was one of the first cases registered in the entity.

With information from López-Dóriga Digital