Ahued rules out epidemic for H1N1 influenza

• April 24, 2024

The Secretary of Health of the Federal District , Armando Ahued He assured that there will be more cases of influenza until March of this year, because it is the normal season where the virus .

Ahued indicated that the Influenza AH1N1 will remain forever in the country, so it must be controlled with the vaccine and preventive hygiene measures.

Given the shortage of drugs that was released a few days ago, the secretary stressed that this situation prevails in private hospitals, but the health centers of the capital have the necessary treatments to control the virus .

In what cases is the virus dangerous?

The official stressed that the groups at risk Influenza AH1N1 are: children under six years, older adults, people suffering from any disease chronic-degenerative or chronic respiratory (asthma , bronchitis ), as well as women pregnant of any quarter.

He stated that the condition is controllable and curable with antivirals such as Tamiflu , in one or two days. It is important to detect it in time, to guarantee its life expectancy, so it invites the population to visit their doctor as soon as the first symptoms appear.

He clarified that the infected patients who died did not have adequate physical conditions, that is, they suffered diabetes , hypertension , diseases Chronic or respiratory failure.

According to the CDC laboratories in Atlanta, the virus It has not mutated, so the features are the same:

1. Fever persistent, higher at 38.5 degrees
2. Headache at the frontal level
3. General state decayed
4. Nasal fluid
5. Articulations pain
6. Cough

Armando Ahued pointed out that the rapid detection test of influenza It has 50% reliability, which is why more priority is given to the medical criterion, who will send samples to the laboratory to confirm the presence of the virus .

Influenza in figures

January 2012. 236 cases are reported; what represents, a decrease of 33.14% with respect to the same period of the previous year. To date, two thousand 431 detections have been made to verify the presence of influenza . Of these data, 200 cases are of H1N1; 31, from seasonal A; two, of B and three, of H3N2 (it is a subtype of influenza A, different from the A-H1N1 virus, but which presents with similar manifestations and symptoms).

The Ministry of Health of the capital received 718 thousand 986 doses of vaccinations ; of which 588,496 have been applied, in metro stations, as well as in hospitals and health centers.

Any questions with the disease You can express it on the twitter of the Secretary of Health of the Federal District, @a_ahued, or call 57-41-15-66.

So far, one discards epidemic in Mexico, so there is no need to filter in schools.

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