Dengue Alert Issued for Three States
 RUMBO de México
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June 24, 2009
Xalapa - Governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán ordered State Health Secretary Manuel Lila de Arce to take preventative measures in municipalities in the bordering areas of Chiapas and Oaxaca to avoid dengue from spreading. Beltrán said that in Veracruz it is highly controlled. Public Health Director Luis Fernando Antiga Tinoco said that even though instances of dengue have been reduced by 40 percent during the first half of the year, but Arce said it shouldn't be ignored and urged residents to participate by cleaning their patios and yards.
Antiga Tinoco said measures will be taken in the perimeters around Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, in the Tres Valles, Tierra Blanca, Agua Dulce and Las Choapas municipalities and in the areas of Cárdenas and Huimanguillo, Tabasco. The port of Veracruz, Minatitlán, Nanchital and the rest of the state's municipalities are already taking preventive measures.
Veracruz is one of the most efficient states in terms of confirmation (lowest proportion of dismissed cases), followed by Nayarit, Sinaloa and Colima, which shows that the Public Health's State Laboratory is one of the best in the country, and has detected dengue cases with more accuracy, according to information from the Subsecretary of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the National Center of Epidemic Control and other national agencies.
Of the 16 municipalities that have the greatest number of concentrated cases, only five are in Veracruz: Coatzacoalcos, Nanchital, Las Choapas, Minatitlán and the port of Veracruz.
The main outbreaks this year have happened in 30 municipalities across 12 states, with six in Colima, two each in Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, Sonora, three each in Nayarit, Tamaulipas, Tabasco, one each in Jalisco and Chiapas and five in Veracruz, which is one of the most-populated states.
Dengue is a chronic illness. Since it thrives more easily in populated areas, experts recommend that public buildings are cleaned to stop the virus-carrying mosquito Aedes Aegypti from spreading it. |
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