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    Rejects the figures released by the World Health Organization
    SSJ leadership justifies A-H1N1 in Jalisco
    He says statistics on cases in other countries that the WHO slogan can not be compared with Mexico, because here, especially in this state, there are more samples of possible infection.

    13.03.2012 ? The Issue


    Until yesterday, there were 5.754 positive cases of influenza A-H1N1 in Mexico, 579 of them in Texas. Photo: Mariana Hern?ndez
    As something unreal, called the secretary of health in the state, Antonio Munoz Serrano, the figures of the World Health Organization (WHO) to place Mexico and Jalisco in the first and third worldwide, respectively, by the number of confirmed cases of influenza A-H1N1. Such accounting is not "applicable" to the local situation, said the official, who explained that the numbers of infections are high because Jalisco is one of the entities that perform more sampling of suspected cases of influenza.

    "Jalisco is becoming more samples because we have been extremely responsible [...], we are sampling the majority of patients are presented and request and this increases the number of cases, said the head of the Health Ministry Jalisco (SSJ).

    MILLENNIUM Jalisco reported yesterday, based on data from WHO, the total number of cases with confirmed patients 5.468 (a figure which rose yesterday to 5.754 cases), Mexico is the country with more people infected with the virus influenza A-H1N1 this year, followed by the United States, with 932 cases. Third, if you consider as a country, would be located Jalisco, with 554 patients (579 in the update from yesterday) is a national leader in the field and is much better than the next nation in the global Sweden, which accumulates just 67 cases in 2012.

    The secretary mentioned that this comparison in absolute numbers is not adequate, and ideally do it by percentage share: "The epidemiology speech rate and index of cases, Mexico, from the 2009 pandemic, has sought to review the majority of cases . Mexico is the country most samples the number of cases. In Mexico, thousands of cases sampled, we are taking samples nearly all patients [...], then compare Mexico with other countries does not apply, because other countries sampled only hundreds of cases. "


    Antonio Mu?oz Serrano, Secretary of Health of Jalisco. Photo: Tonatiuh Figueroa
    According to data presented at a press conference in epidemiological week number 10 of the year (from 4 to 10 March), 29 new infections were detected influenza in Jalisco, of which 25 are of A-H1N1, which was reached to 579 in the year.

    According to these figures, there is a 71 percent decrease in the number of cases reported, said the head of the SSJ, who attributed this decrease to the winter season just ending. However, Mu?oz Serrano said that although "we are out of the problem," the population must be vaccinated and reported that still has five thousand reactive against the disease available in health centers 1, 3, 4 and Lazaro Cardenas.

    Furthermore, the act is reported a new death, but this time it was linked to the virus A-H1N1 pandemic, as the 16 above, but by a spread of seasonal influenza A or type: This is a man of 83, inhabitant of Tlaquepaque, who died on 29 February in 46 of the IMSS clinic. The deceased had not been vaccinated and had prostate cancer and diabetes, which complicated the case, said the head of the SJS, which indicated that, in this way, Jalisco is positioned at number five for mortality by influenza, 14 per site incidence rate and 23 in lethality.

    As in the past few weeks, in presenting these figures, Jalisco Health dismissed the need to implement a special campaign information or mass vaccination against influenza infection. Mu?oz Serrano said enough preventive measures already being used and so far have worked.
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