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In the center of the country is concentrated A-H1N1
Only in the Federal District, Hidalgo, Mexico State, Puebla and Queretaro accumulate 174 thousand patients
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5. - The institutions of the center of the country concentrated 46 percent of positive cases of influenza A H1N1, to accumulate 174 thousand infections of the two thousand 544 has accounted for the Ministry of Health until 2 February.
According to a report by the federal agency, the prevalence of H1N1 virus dominates in the Federal District, Hidalgo, Puebla, Quer?taro and Mexico State, where he has performed almost half of the registered infections in the country.
However, in Oaxaca 275 also have been counted positive cases of virus resulted in almost epidemic and three years.
Of the five states with the largest number of virus spread, Mexico City continues to lead the list with 395 cases, or 15 percent of all infections of this type of influenza throughout the country.
The figures show that in one week there were 128 cases in the capital, from 267 to 395, a further six deaths, with deaths totaling 14 so far this winter season of 54 which been registered in that period.
After Mexico City, Oaxaca is the state with the highest number of positive cases, with 275 infected people and six deaths, third place is Hidalgo, where 239 cases have been reported positive, but only five deaths.
In Jalisco add 222 infections and four deaths, while in the State of Mexico reported 219 cases of the virus and 10 deaths, which puts it second only to Mexico City as the entity with more deaths due to influenza A H1N1 .
By contrast, entities that are with low prevalence of this type of flu are Durango, Zacatecas, Quintana Roo, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Campeche, where total 30 positive cases and only two deaths.
In the remaining cases the number of entities ranging from 15 to 80, however, the SSA should not forget hygiene measures like hand washing and covering your mouth when sneezing.
So far, 2012 has seen more than two million visits for acute respiratory infections and 12,313 cases of pneumonia and bronchopneumonia.
Under control in Hidalgo
Secretary Hidalgo, Pedro Luis Noble Monterrubio, explained that the most recent epidemiological cut in the state have reported 247 cases of influenza, "of these, 239 positive cases of H1N1, which is developing well and has had five deaths."
He explained that in this in account, "from January 1 to 19 were 35 cases and 2 deaths at January 27 there were 207 cases and five deaths, so the first week of February, an increase of 32 cases and no deaths ".
In response, considered that the strategy implemented by the state health sector has managed to contain the disease.
"This does not mean that we lower our guard, the health sector emphasizes that preventive measures are simple and universal. Hygiene habits are permanently, this will prevent the generation of diseases, not just breathing, but otherwise. In this sense, there is no cause for alarm, but take care. "
Hidalgo said that the SSH perform preventive activities with the State Ministry of Education implemented through training of staff at the 13 jurisdictions.