Gert van der Hoek
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Chikungunya is spreading in Mexico: more than 11,000 confirmed cases in 28 states
Posted on December 29th, 2015
chikunADNSURESTE.INFO.- Since October last year to 21 this December, more than 11,000 cases of Chikungunya disease have occurred in our country in 28 states, where Veracruz, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Yucatan and Colima are the most affected, according to figures from the Department of Epidemiology, under the Ministry of Health (SSA).
However, the head of the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Pablo Kuri, said that our country was prepared to face the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue same and zika. "This was the year in which they said was coming and did not Ebola. We are faced with diseases that arrived last year and that it is consolidated, as Chikungunya and Zika are new challenges that are there and that we anticipate are not things that have surprised taken out of place ", he said earlier conNotimex week in an interview.
According to data released by the agency, in Week 49 registration Veracruz thousand 939 cases reported; Guerrero, 672 thousand; Michoacan, 605 thousand; Yucatan, 587 thousand; Oaxaca, 190 thousand, and Colima, 981. In contrast, firms with fewer cases are Aguascalientes, Chihuahua and Queretaro, all with a confirmed case. The specialized health news site Outbreak News Today criticized despite "campaign and the attempts of the Government of Mexico to prevent mosquito-borne virus this year, the numbers have increased over the chikungunya, dengue and now the introduction indigenous, or acquired locally Zika virus "cases. While chikungunya extends in the country, the risk that the virus is latent zika spread as it is transmitted by the same insect.
Posted on December 29th, 2015
chikunADNSURESTE.INFO.- Since October last year to 21 this December, more than 11,000 cases of Chikungunya disease have occurred in our country in 28 states, where Veracruz, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Yucatan and Colima are the most affected, according to figures from the Department of Epidemiology, under the Ministry of Health (SSA).
However, the head of the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Pablo Kuri, said that our country was prepared to face the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue same and zika. "This was the year in which they said was coming and did not Ebola. We are faced with diseases that arrived last year and that it is consolidated, as Chikungunya and Zika are new challenges that are there and that we anticipate are not things that have surprised taken out of place ", he said earlier conNotimex week in an interview.
According to data released by the agency, in Week 49 registration Veracruz thousand 939 cases reported; Guerrero, 672 thousand; Michoacan, 605 thousand; Yucatan, 587 thousand; Oaxaca, 190 thousand, and Colima, 981. In contrast, firms with fewer cases are Aguascalientes, Chihuahua and Queretaro, all with a confirmed case. The specialized health news site Outbreak News Today criticized despite "campaign and the attempts of the Government of Mexico to prevent mosquito-borne virus this year, the numbers have increased over the chikungunya, dengue and now the introduction indigenous, or acquired locally Zika virus "cases. While chikungunya extends in the country, the risk that the virus is latent zika spread as it is transmitted by the same insect.