| | |  Health & Beauty | July 2009 
Chiapas Now Tops Influenza H1N1 Incidences
 RUMBO de México
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July 24, 2009
 |  | The National Health Secretariat reported a spike in the south part of the country, with 632 new cases and 10 deaths from Monday to Thursday. |  | | |
Chiapas has become the state with the highest number of confirmed H1N1 cases, according to a state press release yesterday.
With 2,664 cases including 19 deaths, the southern state surpassed the Federal District with 2,161 and Yucatán with 1,906 since the National Institute of Epidemiological Testing and Research (INDRE) began testing on April 23.
The National Health Secretariat reported a spike in the south part of the country, with 632 new cases and 10 deaths from Monday to Thursday. Mexico has had 14,861 cases and 138 deaths, the latter of which 51.4 percent were women and 48.6 percent were men.
Seventy-one percent of them were between 20 and 54 years old.
Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero was also expected to announce strengthened measures to combat the virus as well as name a new State Health Secretary yesterday after Adrián Pérez Vargas stepped down "because of the words and discriminatory acts of which he has been subject to."
According to Vargas, National Health Secretary José Angel Córdova Villalobos said on Tuesday that Vargas was "infected" with H1N1 despite a lack of hard evidence. |
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