Are already 159 cases of influenza A-H1N1 in Jalisco

The local authority confirmed the second death from seasonal influenza outside of time, of this disease are 288 cases, but 170 more expected results.

Sat, 23/05/2009 - 06:47

Photo: Giorgio VeraAl met one month today that federal authorities have issued health alert across the country against the threat of a new influenza virus, the Health Ministry Jalisco (SSJ) confirmed 48 new cases in addition to the epidemic . At this time, which today is known as influenza A H1N1, has affected a total of 159 people in the state and 4.008 in Mexico, according to the latest report released by the agency.

At 13:00 pm yesterday, the SSJ also confirmed the second death by another epidemic of seasonal influenza A or suffering from Jalisco in parallel to the A-H1N1. Officially, the cases of seasonal influenza are 288, but the authorities in Mexico are awaiting confirmation that another 170 who tested positive in an initial test (by the method of indirect immunofluorescence).

The director general of Public Health of the SSJ, Elizabeth Ulloa Robles, said that according to the report of the National Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (Indre), received on Thursday May 21 at 21:00 hours, cases of contagion in the state had increased to 159, which means 15 percent of those surveyed. Meanwhile, cases of seasonal influenza represent 27 per cent.

Ulloa Robles noted that the cumulative total of suspicious deaths (up from six to eleven deaths), six cases were dismissed, one was positive for influenza A and four are pending review.

The recent death confirmed influenza A is a woman of 82 years living in Guadalajara. Meanwhile, cases are dismissed for a man of 92 years, a resident of Zapopan, and a baby only three months, from Guadalajara, who submitted pictures of atypical pneumonia, but not attributable to any influenza virus.

The epidemic of influenza A H1N1-affected municipalities in addition to four previously free of the disease: Chapala, Union de Tula, Tequila and Tepatitlan.

In total, the municipalities affected by the new virus is 22. Guadalajara remains in the lead with 60 of the 159 cases confirmed, followed by 30 Zapopan, Tonala with 17 and San Juan de los Lagos in fourth place with nine cases, he said, for its part, the head of the Department of Epidemiology, Lucia Salazar Montes.

Tlaquepaque Acatlan Juarez and reported eight cases each; Tlajomulco four cases, and Puerto Vallarta, Ocotlán, Encarnación de Díaz, and El Salto, two cases each. Eleven other municipalities have only one case.

The official said that yesterday there were 28 patients, of whom four are serious. However, for the second consecutive time, did not require hospitalization and the cumulative total since it began health alert, or the new hospital.

However, Salazar Montes said that, based on statistics, "it is obvious that both queries as hospitalizations for suspected cases are in decline." Still, knowing the lack of confirmation of cases, since the results came yesterday with a start date of May