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Alert widespread deaths in several states
Health authorities withhold information for now
The only entity there have been some cases, none seriously, but there are at least five of them off the record would be classified as strains of H1N1 virus
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The Health Ministry has sent delegations indication of states that do not give statements about the influenza until after next Friday, as some states are in alarm and do not want to misrepresent the information.
Thus, in the Ministry of Health of Nayarit, the delegate Maria Ibarra Ocampo, is not authorized to talk about it, said his Department staff.
There have been cases delicate and even death in some states like Tamaulipas, where he died a nurse and the Federal District where there were 500 cases in January and four deaths so far.
Transparency of Government agencies is not fulfilling its basic function, to report.
Another case is the official website of the Ministry of Health http://portal.salud.gob.mx/ which does not work. You can only enter the home but then can not move, or transparency, or any other section.
In Nayarit, the behavior of the new disease has been satisfactory as having been in 2009 1.671 confirmed cases in 2010, only 5 cases were registered in 2011 and has not registered any case.
Counterattack of virus
So far this year there have been 3.266 cases of illness with features of influenza, 637 patients have been confirmed deaths and 10 different strains of the virus, according to the Federal Ministry of Health.
Of all the people affected, about 90% were influenza AH1N1, equivalent to 573 cases and nine deaths, while one has not been subtyped, as reported by the Health Units Monitors Influenza.
During the first week of this year 2012, of 1,000 visits for respiratory disease, seven were from patients with influenza-like symptoms, which is far below the prevalence of alarm indicator, which is 20 per 1,000.
Health officials believe that the frequency of acute respiratory infections usually increase during the cold seasons, so until January 20, 2012 were a total of 505.521 visits for acute respiratory infections and just over 1,300 cases of pneumonia and bronchopneumonia.
Since the beginning of the season until January 20, 2012 there were 37 deaths from these causes, mainly attributable to carbon monoxide poisoning due to burning of fuel for heating homes and hypothermia.
Of these deaths, 19 occurred in Chihuahua: 17 were for intoxication, with hypothermia and a burn-in Durango reported six, in Sonora, four, in Hidalgo and Baja California, two in each, in Coahuila, Guanajuato, Puebla and Nuevo Leon, one case in every state.