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Call for vaccination for influenza
The West
15 November 2011
Isaura Lopez Villalobos
With little inflow of people to seek influenza vaccine in the centers of health , the Health Ministry Jalisco (SSJ) calls mainly to families lead to vaccinate children under five and the elderly before raging the winter season.
The Director General of Public Health, Mario Marquez Amezcua, said the total is in the biological entity is hardly an advance of 10 percent: "Although we have not got the flu, we are preventing respiratory diseases especially in the risk groups (...) people are not going to be vaccinated according to what we had planned. "
He said that to date not recorded an increase in respiratory diseases. In the case of dengue, reported only two cases in the municipality of Puerto Vallarta classic and hemorrhagic type, reiterates its recommendation to maintain hygiene and cleanliness in the dwellings and avoid having objects with water.
To date, the entity totaling 147 cases of which 136 are classic and 11 hemorrhagic, compared with last year there is a reduction of 89 percent.