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Influenza can cause up to 5 thousand deaths
Emite Health sector 'Yellow alert' for the first two months of next year. Published: Thursday, December 23, 2010, at 05:03 hrs.Por: Christian Solorio
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Due to the proliferation of infections of the H3N2 virus, a variant of seasonal influenza, and to forecast the beginning of 2011 with temperatures in the country, the Federal Ministry of Health issued a "yellow alert", as this disease could have a rebound in the first two months. In this regard, Alejandro Mac?as Hern?ndez, national commissioner of the Health Sector for cases of influenza, said this during winter in the country could have been served up to 30 thousand cases (this figure is estimated annually) and could result in about five thousand deaths from medical complications from evil.
Asked about it, Luis Felipe Graham Zapata, state health secretary, said that this winter season is important that the public is protected from sudden temperature changes. Because of this population Tabasco invited to go to the nearest health unit to your home to get vaccinated, especially children under five, elderly, pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy and those who pose a risk for chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
The state official explained that so far the agency in charge has been applied 101,475 doses of vaccine against seasonal influenza, the 273,380 which are programmed to apply in this winter season from the second half of last October to February next year, not so far been submitted adverse drug reactions. Likewise, Graham Zapata ruled that until now was filed in Tabasco a suspected case of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, since it was assumed, finally confirmed that health sector joined the demonstrations caused by the bite of an insect.
In its latest report, the National Center of Epidemiological Surveillance and Disease Control (Cenavece) reported through week 49 from 05 to December 11 have been reported in Tabasco 86 cases of seasonal influenza and 115 cases of H1N1 influenza, quantity vastly inferior to those reported this week but in 2009.
VERY COLD WINTER
For its part, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued the forecast for the winter season 2010-2011 in which stands to be a winter with temperatures below normal body under the National Water Commission (Conagua) presented iniverno that 2010-2011 will be a predominantly dry winter, except for the Gulf of Mexico and the southern border region, for what is expected in the month of December the number of cold fronts will increase the national territory.
"To reach its peak in December and January with an average of 6 months fronts. Its starts normally decrease from February, so expect minimum temperatures of 0.5 to 1.5 degrees below what is normally recorded in Tabasco "he said.
REPORT
Until week 49, 05 to December 11 have been recorded in Tabasco:
86
cases of seasonal influenza
115
cases of H1N1 influenza
Source: National Epidemiological Surveillance Center