Mexico Tuberculosis Cases

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http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/742243.html
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Prison outbreak of tuberculosis in Cancun
The Secretary of Health of Quintana Roo, Juan Carlos Azueta Cardenas, said that in the state are detected 198 cases, but this does not define the entity as a risk

CANCUN, QR. | Thursday February 3, 2011
NTX | El Universal
10:39

The Secretary of Health of Quintana Roo, Juan Carlos Azueta C?rdenas, there are eight confirmed cases of tuberculosis in the prison of this city, found themselves in treatment.

He noted that the entity is identified 198 cases of tuberculosis in all, but it does not define the entity as at risk for this disease which also exists throughout the country, does not mean that there is an outbreak out of control.

The state official argued that this condition is not unique to this city, on the contrary, is very common in prisons, people with poor nutrition and immunosuppression.

"The eight cases are under treatment, which is very long and carries the risk that if the patient finds it can develop what is known as drug resistance to drugs and tables become very difficult to treat," he said.

For the two cases of leprosy registered in Cancun, said that it is isolated situations of people in transit and brought the diagnosis, but they are already addressed in the General Hospital of this city.

He stressed that there is no risk of infection or transmission, Quintana Roo and clarified that not even on the national epidemiological map for this condition.

 

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By: Yenni Gandiaga Salas / MetroNoticias Date: 02/02/2011
2 deaths and 17 new cases of Tuberculosis in Reynosa Mexico

* cases expected to rise by low temperatures in this border

By Yenni Gandiaga Salas / MetroNoticias

Reynosa, Tam .- The Sanitary District IV located in Reynosa, this year recorded 17 new cases of TB cases and 2 deaths from attending last year.

Magin Perez Martinez, head of the TB program, reported that 17 patients with TB is the same number of cases that occurred in early 2010, so do not rule out that low temperatures may remain more cases of tuberculosis.

"We started with a very low, in fact we think that there would be fewer compared to other years but we matched ", he said.

He indicated that only two deaths occurred in January of this year, which were cases of 2010, which ended with only 15 deaths from this disease.

Mart?nez Pereda urges citizens to complete the examination of sputum for early detection of tuberculosis, since it is a free service that runs in the waiting rooms of the Sanitary District building.

 

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CANCUN, Quintana Roo .- The 8 prisoners suffering from tuberculosis and receiving care and their symptoms are controlled, thus reducing the risk of infection in the prison of Cancun, said state Health Secretary, Juan Carlos C?rdenas Azueta.
He argued that the risk of infection is minimal, but said the prisoners remain under treatment, although a bit long, be continuously monitored because it is a curable disease.
The prison of Cancun is on high alert for the detection of 8 cases of tuberculosis among the local population.
According to figures from the Health Sector, the number of sick prisoners behind bars, would mean almost 10% of the cases have in the entire state of Quintana Roo, who is 90.
The head of the Sanitary District No. 2, Efrain Avila Lizama said they sent specialists to review the health conditions of inmates, confirming that it has 8 confirmed cases of tuberculosis, with the possibility of taking two more.
According to data collected, health jurisdiction staff number two, admitted the morning of Wednesday to the prison of Cancun to check how many cases of tuberculosis there.
The health minister said that all state inmates are isolated and treated m?dico.Seg?n said last year in Quintana Roo were recorded 237 cases of tuberculosis.
It is known that at this time, the World Health Organization, and instructed the secretaries of state and national Health to take action on the matter, since it is a disease that is taking place solely by the entity, but around the world .
In this sense, the head of the State Department of Health, Juan Carlos Azueta Cardenas, said that TB is a contagious disease, which like the common cold is spread through the air, but only people suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis can transmit infection.
When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, people infected in the air propel germs known as bacilli. Just a person to inhale a few germs to become infected.
The Secretary of Health of Quintana Roo, Juan Carlos C?rdenas Azueta argued that the condition is not unique to this city, on the contrary, is very common in prisons, people with poor nutrition and immunosuppression.
"The eight cases are under treatment, which is very long and carries the risk that if the patient finds it can develop what is known as drug resistance to drugs and become very difficult to treat cases," he said.

 

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Tuberculosis clinic in Tijuana BC is unique in its kind in the northeast of the country

Ultimo Momento
WRITTEN BY FERNANDA L?PEZ TREVI?O, SYNTHESIS TV / NEWS.
FRIDAY MARCH 4, 2011 7:32

The Ministry of Health of Baja California opened in Tijuana, the only TB clinic in the entire Northwest ...

Soraida is a young academic who for three years fighting a terrible disease, without knowing which was the evil that plagued hundreds of specialists visited, there were no studies found that the reason of his illness, "starts in 2007 with a flu and infection of the tonsils, I went to doctors and medicine for flu, spend time and do not I take the flu, I suddenly noticed that my legs red . "
That's where the torture of Soraida home, the pains in their limbs were unbearable, at one point I think he had cancer until he was diagnosed with TB ... The most common is the lung that occurs in 85 percent ... So This was announced by the pulmonologist Tijuana General Hospital Rafael Laneado Labor?n "confused all the time, patients have been treated for pneumonia, influenza flu for months, said she herself spent years struggling and did not give diagnosis. "


Tuberculosis is a contagious disease like the common cold is spread through the air ... The disease can be cured if detected early in six months, the patient is relieved, but can get complicated take years to heal, "the 25 percent of the cases we see here are not of Baja California is coming when people who are no where to be. "


Tuberculosis Clinic in drug-resistant, it will address the complications of this disease, to realize the health unit had six years of work, is the only one in the northwest of the country: "we are going to be sending patients with complications or resistance, we have 42 patients registered so far if you think that every TB patient can infect 20 people through numbers may be many potential cases. "

90 percent of cases of TB are addressed successfully will cure ... The clinic had an investment of seven and a half million pesos, which will serve a month to approximately one hundred patients ...

 

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Section: Tamaulipas / Altamira
27 cases of tuberculosis in Altamira
Turrubiates Carlos Lozano, director of the health center in this county added that cases have increased from 22 that were submitted during 2010
By: Diana Alvarado / Altamira
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07/03/2011 | Updated at 10:05 h
Altamira, Tamaulipas .- In Altamira Health Center are handled 27 cases of tuberculosis, said the Director of the hospital Turrubiates Carlos Lozano, who added that they have gone up from 22 that occurred during 2010.

The interviewee said that the authorities of the Ministry of Health consider initiating prevention strategies against the disease, on the eve of World TB Day, on 24 March this year.

Tuberculosis is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis can spread the infection. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, people infected in the air propel germs known as bacilli. Just a person to inhale a few germs to become infected.

If untreated, a person with active TB can infect on average between 10 and 15 people in one year. However, infected individuals do not necessarily develop the disease. The immune system raises a "wall" to the tubercle bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can remain dormant for years. In infected individuals whose immune system is weakened, the likelihood of disease is greatest.

Every second in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli. Between 5% and 10% of people infected with TB bacilli (but not HIV) develop the disease or become contagious in the course of his life. People infected with HIV and tuberculosis bacillus is much more likely to develop this disease.

One of the activities to be developed as part of global day of illness is a walk to be held in the main streets of Altamira, under the motto "Running Against Tuberculosis ... direct the fight against the removal." Activity to be held on 28 March.

 

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Serve 54 cases of tuberculosis in Jurisdiction 2
Normal treatment of the patient is between 15 and 20 thousand pesos for six months.

Thu, 24/03/2011 - 1:49

The minor symptoms such as coughing for several days, you should take the saliva sample
Being treated 54 cases of tuberculosis in the Health District in the past year and so far 2011.

The Head of Sanitary District 2, Sergio Eduardo Camargo Uriegas, said today continues to promote the culture of care and prevention against the disease.

He noted that in these cases, there are 20 Tampico, Ciudad Madero has 22 and the municipality of Altamira 10 cases, while the other two cases are in the cities of Gonzales and Aldama.

According to reports in the metropolitan area the highest risk is in the municipality of Ciudad Madero, where 7.4 of every 100 000 people have tuberculosis, while in Tampico rate is 5.24 and Altamira 5.02.

He noted that the risk is on Madero, due to the greater number of people congregate, and the humidity of the area
Of the 54 cases that were taken, 4 were drug resistant, this means not adhered to treatment, and this aggravated the situation.

In this type of complication costs rise seriously, because in a drug-resistant, treatment often reach up to 250 thousand pesos, while the normal treatment is between 15 and 20 thousand dollars in 6 months.

The fight against tuberculosis had to create an international tool, called Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS), which oversees all the necessary personnel, drugs to be consumed as a mark treatment, preventing complications and risk of mass contamination.

According to the Director of the health center in Madero, 70 percent of cases, and is cured and the rest is in the process of healing because it has fulfilled its club DOTS treatment.

He said: "one of the few centers that have this club formed and integrated, and integrating people cured of TB. The humanitarian club, trying to convince to take medicine, because it gives disgust and nausea occurs, it is not willing to take regularly, and is a contagious, you must be convinced that they do not infect or his family, in many cases include psychologists.

 

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For tuberculosis, there are six deaths in Tamaulipas
In the State there are a thousand 400 cases, and 61 of them belong to the suburbs. Treatment is free but there are those who abandon the third week.

Tue, 29/03/2011 - 01:08

Marched to raise awareness of the risk of tuberculosis
In the state of Tamaulipas were detected 255 new cases of tuberculosis, in total there are 1.400 of these 55 are drug resistant, which causes each of its treatment represents a cost of 250 thousand pesos.

Monday was held in Altamira World Day to Combat Tuberculosis, hence the program coordinator in Tamaulipas, Gonzalo Crespo Solis, said that in the state have succeeded in increasing the percentage of patients with cure of the disease, 79 percent to 85 percent.

He said there are currently 1,400 cases in the state, of which 255 are new, and 61 belong to the south, with 6 patients have been detected in the municipality of Altamira.

So far this year 6 patients have died of tuberculosis in Tamaulipas, of which one was a resident of the municipality of Altamira, and died in an institution belonging to the Health Sector.

"They feel good in the sixth week and the first thing they do is leave the program, which is the biggest mistake, because the best time to cure tuberculosis, is to first, once it was detected."

And in Tamaulipas TB treatment is free, there are patients who leave the sixth week in a way that instead of being in treatment for six months, now have to be pregnant for two years and, of course, health care cost increases of 3 000 pesos to 250 thousand.

"If you drop one persists in two or three, the disease becomes drug dependent, a 3-thousand dollars to the state, will cost 250 thousand dollars per patient, the treatment 6 months to two years passed, and a 70 percent rate of cure. "

In the State there are 55 patients in this situation, only one belongs to the municipality of Altamira. of the 1,400 cases in all of Tamaulipas, 240 belong to the south, and of these 40 residents in this city.

The coordinator said that the municipalities in the north, which ranks first in the number of cases of this disease.

Tuberculosis is a disease whose main symptoms are: coughing up phlegm, sometimes with bleeding, fever, night sweats, momentary dizziness, chills and weight loss