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Editor, Senior Moderator
In 20 days, the persons hospitalized in the National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses (INER) for influenza, included the vine-stock A H1N1, spent from 15 to 80, the highest number from October, 2009, when the biggest number of contagions (90) registered in the country.
According to the numbers of the INER, until January 25 of this year there were 170 suspicious cases of influenza, the highest number from December, 2010.
But the patients' increase with influenza is not a motive of alarm for the country, said the secretary of Health of Mexico, Salom?n Chertorivski, in interview with the journalist Carmen Aristegui, in MVS News.
In accordance with the official, the increase in the cases of influenza in the INER or in other institutions of health is ? absolutely normal ? during the winter period.
' Between October and March, in a daily way cases of influenza happen. This year is not the exception. Every year, there are 25 million respiratory sufferings. Of these, 20,000 answer to symptoms of influenza and only they are confirmed between 5,000 or 7,000 ', he told.
CNNM?xico requested interview with the Secretary of Health, but it has not received response.
http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2012...alizados-por-influenza-la-mas-alta-desde-2009
According to the numbers of the INER, until January 25 of this year there were 170 suspicious cases of influenza, the highest number from December, 2010.
But the patients' increase with influenza is not a motive of alarm for the country, said the secretary of Health of Mexico, Salom?n Chertorivski, in interview with the journalist Carmen Aristegui, in MVS News.
In accordance with the official, the increase in the cases of influenza in the INER or in other institutions of health is ? absolutely normal ? during the winter period.
' Between October and March, in a daily way cases of influenza happen. This year is not the exception. Every year, there are 25 million respiratory sufferings. Of these, 20,000 answer to symptoms of influenza and only they are confirmed between 5,000 or 7,000 ', he told.
CNNM?xico requested interview with the Secretary of Health, but it has not received response.
http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2012...alizados-por-influenza-la-mas-alta-desde-2009