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SS Implements health fence to detect diseases of Mexicans who visited South Africa
The West
July 8, 2010
Isaura Lopez Villalobos Collaboration
Guadalajara, Jalisco .- One week after the end of the 2010 World Cup, the Federal Health Ministry is preparing a national return operation to identify in a timely manner, diseases in Mexican vacationers who came to this country.
Among the conditions that should be monitored more frequently and keep a record to the Epidemiological Surveillance System state and national stand out: rickettsia, malaria, African trypanosomiasis, the different variants of hepatitis A, C and E, yellow fever, leptospirosis.
Just as tuberculosis, polio, measles, meningitis, rabies, cholera, typhoid, influenza, seasonal influenza A-H1N1 and sexually transmitted diseases.
Epidemiological surveillance coordinator of Vaccine Preventable Diseases of the Ministry of Health Jalisco (SSJ), Yolanda Capuchino Monreal, Report to the West 10 days ago launched the surveillance operation and health advising staff on the guidelines that should be targeted to he was examining a patient with suspicious signs or symptoms of the diseases, "above, and have the background that went to South Africa (three months prior).
This, said Capuchino Monreal "in order to avoid a major outbreak that we do not have." To date no cases noted that suspected "measles and yellow fever."
The call to and vacationers who came to South Africa if you have fever, chills and sweating, rash, yellowing of the skin, bleeding, headache, seizures and diarrhea, is to go immediately to the Centre or Health Unit for your attention.
Preliminary data analyzed these conditions could be released between October and November.
Some aspects which provides the format to be used by public health personnel, private and social assistance, which establishes the National Center of Surveillance and Disease Control (Cenavece), include: patient identification data, data on the drive notifier, epidemiological history, clinical features, course of illness and laboratory studies and contacts.
The Cenavece indicates that each case must be reported immediately to the Department of Epidemiology.
In point of epidemiologic risk factors, patients are wondering: date of arrival and departure to South Africa, countries and cities he visited, like: Do I use mosquito repellent?, Did contact one person with rash?, " a wild animal bit you?, is applied yellow influenza vaccine, influenza A-H1N1 and measles?
Also: In South Africa had unprotected sex with casual partners?, "Swam in pools or submerged in a river or lake?," Visited rural areas made a safari?
The agencies participating in "Operation Return to South Africa 2010" highlight the Federal Ministry of Health, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Institute of social security and services for state employees (ISSSTE), Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) , Secretary of the Navy (Semar), National System for Integral Family Development (DIF), Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI).