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The Ministry of Health said that there were enough flu shots to protect the population. Foto Maria Luisa Severiano / archive
Mexico City. In the two weeks since the start of the current influenza season, the country's health authorities have confirmed 80 cases and one death, and have a sufficient number of vaccines and antiviral declared Cuitláhuac. Ruiz Matus, Director General of Epidemiology Department of Health (Ssa).
In addition, the specialist confirmed that the "dominant" strain of the virus at the moment is H1N1 influenza, which can cause more infections and more serious, so that preventive measures are particularly important.
In an interview with La Jornada, Ruiz said that the Mexican government "had learned the lessons from the experience" of the influenza epidemic that occurred in 2009 and currently has one. "Robust" epidemiological surveillance system, called Centinela, by which analysis 10 percent of reported cases to see the evolution of the disease nationwide.
In addition to the 542 monitoring units of the "Sentinel" system, Ssa also has a network of hospitals of different levels and national institutes that have 112,000 available treatments for the antiviral drug Oseltamivir, which are added to another 249 thousand in reserve.
Unlike 2014, when there was a shortage crisis of Oseltamivir, there are currently enough doses if needed, and in the market, there are three interchangeable generics. The provision of antiviral treatment is therefore guaranteed, he said.
Similarly, Ssa has 31 million doses of vaccine that it began administering for a week, particularly in areas of the population with the highest risk of contracting the flu: children from 6 months to 5 years. adults over 60, pregnant women, health care workers and people with chronic health conditions or weakened immune systems.
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