Mexico registers 166 deaths and 5042 positive cases by A H1N1

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MEXICO CITY (24/FEB/2012) .-The Secretary of Health (Ssa) informed that from January 1 until February 23 of this year five thousand 544 cases were confirmed by any of three types of virus of influenza and 180 deaths. The federal dependency added that of the whole of the notified cases five thousand 42 events and 166 deaths were caused by the human influenza A H1N1, because from the beginning of 2012 it predominates over this virus. In a bulletin, it specified that in 50 % of the deaths for influenza was hospitalized from the fourth day of beginning of the illness, also 89 % was not vaccinated and 73 % took a comorbidity as a mellitus diabetes, obesity and arterial hypertension. The Ssa announced that in the last week 31 confirmed deaths of influenza were notified, nevertheless only 12 happened in this space and the remaining 19 are of weeks previous.

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Re: Mexico registers 166 deaths for A H1N1

Re: Mexico registers 166 deaths for A H1N1

City of M?xico. - The Secretary of Health brought 31 more cases of death for A/H1N1 in this week with regard to the previous one and 602 more cases of contagions, that is to say 166 deaths and five thousand 042 contagions in what it goes of 2012.
50 % of the deaths for influenza was hospitalized from the fourth day of beginning of the illness, also 89 % was not vaccinated and 73 % had a comorbidity being three more frequent mellitus diabeteses, obesity and arterial hypertension.
Last week week there was 4440, which meant 918 new ones of additional contagions and 135, of those 54 deaths with regard to previous reports.
In the last week 31 confirmed deaths of influenza were notified; nevertheless, only 12 (38 %) happened in the last week and the remaining 19 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 general terms, from the first of January until February 23, 2012 they confirmed to themselves five thousand 544 cases and 180 deaths for any of three types of virus of influenza, to these more than 91 % of the cases for infection and deceases belonged for A/H1N1.

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Mexico Death Toll from AH1N1 Flu Virus Up 23% in 1 Week

MEXICO CITY ? A total of 166 people have died of the AH1N1 flu virus in Mexico so far this year, a figure that shows a 23-percent increase in deaths in one week, according to data released by health authorities.

The total number of deaths from the AH1N1 flu virus between Jan. 1 and Feb. 16 this year was 135, with another 31 fatalities from Feb. 17 to Feb. 23, according to the Mexican Health Secretariat.

The secretariat said in a communique on Friday that from Jan. 1 to Feb. 23, 2012, some 5,544 cases and 180 deaths were confirmed to have been caused by the three types of flu virus currently active in the country...