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Guadalajara
AH3N2 confirmed 9 cases of Lagos de Moreno and ZMG
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October 5, 2010
Isaura Lopez Villalobos
Jalisco .- that there are cases of influenza A-H3N2 in Jalisco. Since last September, nine people were reported sick in the municipalities of Lagos de Moreno and Guadalajara metropolitan area, however there are still samples under study, which will be confirmed by the National Institute of Epidemiological Reference (Indre), so it could increase cases.
Yet last week, the Director of Public Health of the Ministry of Health Jalisco (SSJ), Mario Marquez Amezcua, claimed that the agency had no cases and only in the southern states of Mexico H3N2 strain was detected, is that in the state nine people sick.
Although the federal Health Ministry launched a nationwide alert for a possible outbreak of H3N2 influenza for a week, on Monday the chief of epidemiology Lucia Salazar reported nine cases in Jalisco, "It's a respiratory problem as many that occur, that people may need to stop their activities for about two days. "
He said that kind of strain that will generate the problem of seasonal influenza this coming winter and every year.
"This year we had some cases, more or less nine cases of influenza confirmaos laboratory from a strain that is what is considered to be possibly generate around the country and in some other countries the transmission of this disease at this time which is the A-H3N2 strain. "
It is expected that this flu cases begin to submit in late October and early November, however, confirmation of outbreaks of the virus to other entities put on alert across the country.
The difference between influenza A-H3N2 and H1N1 (which appeared in mid-2009) is in the serotypes and the ability of the virus mutation, some of the symptoms are severe pain, fever and cough, and pain also chest, joint and overall body discomfort.
The health unit provides a vaccine that will provide protection against seasonal influenza (H3N2) and influenza virus (H1N1), will arrive later this month.
VACCINATION WEEK BEGINS
Elementary School Students Urban number 567, located in the municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco, took the checkered flag to start the Third National Health Week, the students entertained and the opening songs "Rap for Health" inviting people (authorities and students) to be vaccinated to prevent disease and also alluded to the refusal of snuff and alcohol.
Efforts continue to take place throughout the year, said Ana Miriam Perez Reyes, head of the state health program for children and adolescents in the Ministry of Health, but there's more than half a million children who have not been vaccinated for cultural reasons, mostly religious.
For a decade the health sector performs preventive actions to promote health among the general population, greater acceptance programs has been the vaccination campaigns, plus they are free to protect health from childhood to adulthood.
The immunization schedule in Mexico protects at least 15 diseases, including measles, rubella, polio and tuberculosis, to name a few ailments.
The goals of this week are: the application of 594 000 706 shots to complete schemes of DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus); pentavalent acellular pertussis, BCG, (tuberculous meningitis), MMR (measles, rubella and parotiditis), MR (measles ) Td (diphtheria toxoid), pneumococcal, rotavirus and hepatitis B.
You can distribute a million 38 000 760 folic acid, Vida Suero Oral envelopes, deworming tablets, ferrous iron, vitamin A, also will be performed to register the biological application of the national vaccination card