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City of M?xico. - The Secretary of Health informed that in the first two months of this year 6 thousand 66 cases and 207 deaths registered for the different types of virus of influenza, with what in contrast to last week there were notified 522 more patients and another 27 deaths. They add 207 deceases brought up to yesterday.
In the weekly information of the Secretary it is highlighted that of the whole of the cases, five thousand 468 (90 %) and 191 (92 %) deaths were for the seasonal influenza A (H1N1), because from the beginning of 2012 it predominates over this virus.
43 % of the deaths for influenza was hospitalized from the fourth day of beginning of the illness, also 85 % was not vaccinated and 73 % had a comorbidity being three more frequent mellitus diabeteses, obesity and arterial hypertension.
The dependency in charge of Salom?n Chertorivsky added that last week 27 confirmed deaths of influenza were notified; nevertheless, only five (19 %) happened in the last week and the remaining 22 are of weeks previous, which turns out from the technical processes of assertion that they include the capture of sample, prosecution in laboratory, emission of results and notification of the same ones.
In the weekly information of the Secretary it is highlighted that of the whole of the cases, five thousand 468 (90 %) and 191 (92 %) deaths were for the seasonal influenza A (H1N1), because from the beginning of 2012 it predominates over this virus.
43 % of the deaths for influenza was hospitalized from the fourth day of beginning of the illness, also 85 % was not vaccinated and 73 % had a comorbidity being three more frequent mellitus diabeteses, obesity and arterial hypertension.
The dependency in charge of Salom?n Chertorivsky added that last week 27 confirmed deaths of influenza were notified; nevertheless, only five (19 %) happened in the last week and the remaining 22 are of weeks previous, which turns out from the technical processes of assertion that they include the capture of sample, prosecution in laboratory, emission of results and notification of the same ones.
