Re: Mexico H1N1
29 deaths and 1500 cases of contagion for A/H1N1
MEXICO, D.F. (apro) .-The holder of the Secretary of Health, Salom?n Chertorivski, qualified like ? absolutely normally ? the record of 29 deceases and approximately 1500 persons infected with the virus of influenza AH1N1 in what it goes of the winter period. The federal official detailed that from January 1 there have registered thousand 623 serious cases of flu, of which 90 % corresponds to the virus of the influenza AH1N1. In the same period 32 persons died for all kinds of influenza, 29 of them confirmed with the virus H1N1.
Of 32 persons who died, he said, 31 were not vaccinated and 70 % had other evil, like diabetes, cancer or hypertension. In a meeting with foreign correspondents, after whom news arose on an increase in the levels of flu A and shortage of the medicines that fight her, Chertorivski he warned that an increase of cases is still waited. ? We hope that the levels should increase in February and March, to diminish later ?, it pointed. Nevertheless, he said that there is no alarm on this matter because, between other reasons, it is still under the parameter under which it is used as for the number of cases of flu related to the medical consultations by type of illness.
It detailed that till now the average of consultations is of eight for every 10 thousand and the special measurements only are applied when they come to 20 consultations for every thousand.
During 2011, in Mexico 31 persons died for the flu caused by the virus AH1N1, nevertheless the secretary of Health made sure that this vine-stock of the flu ? did not circulate in the world ?, something that yes has happened in the last months.
The virus of the influenza AH1N1 arose in March, 2009 in Mexico, and until the sanitary alert closed in the country, on June 29, 2010, caused the death of thousand 300 persons and infected to other 70 thousand. This year the virus came from the south, because it arose strongly during the southern winter and it has progressed from south to north, happening for the Andean region, for Central America, and in the last weeks it came to Mexico. ? In Mexico it began in the states of the south and of the center, and similar pass the (winter) period for what we can wait, we believe, it is that we are going to see a movement towards the states of the north ?, from what ? one starts seeing an increase of the AH1N1 and it is the awaited thing and the absolutely normal thing ?, insisted Chertorivski.
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