Sinaloa, third place in confirmed cases of influenza | Debate

With 36 flu case until week 45 which includes from November 4 to 8, 2018, Sinaloa he was placed in third place national, according to the report of the Directorate General of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health.

In the country, 375 positive cases have been confirmed: 286 Influenza A (H1N1), 59 influenza B, 25 influenza A and 5 influenza A (H3N2). Sixteen deaths from influenza have been reported: 14 of A (H1N1) and 2 of B.

The highest number of confirmed influenza cases during the 2018-2019 seasonal season are Veracruz, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Chiapas and Tabasco, which together account for 55.5% of the total confirmed chaos.

According to Felipe Velázquez, of jurisdiction 001, which includes Ahome, El Fuerte and Choice, the number of confirmed cases in Sinaloa is 36, of which 23 in Escuinapa and the others in Culiacán, Guasave and Mazatlán. There were no deaths for this reason.

Entities reporting deaths from influenza include Veracruz (31.3%), Tabasco (25%), Sonora (12.5%), Chiapas (12.5%), Aguascalientes (6.3%) , Tamaulipas (6%) and Tlaxcala (6%).

The seasonal flu begins at week 40, from September 30 to October 6, 2018, and ends at week 20, Monday, May 13, 2019.

Call to get vaccinated

Because of the proximity of low temperatures that can cause respiratory illnesses affecting the respiratory and immune systems, Health Health Jurisdiction 01 invites the public to take extreme precautionary measures and get vaccinated against the flu to prevent the common cold from getting worse. and cause this disease.

The epidemiologist of this jurisdiction which covers the municipalities of Ahome, El Fuerte and Choices, Sergio Coronado Orduño, emphasized that for this season of prevention, which ends in December, the objective of 80,000 vaccines approximately is With an advance 80%, so they expect to have no more vaccines on a regular basis for February or March.

"It's a vaccine that protects us all year round with an efficiency of more than 90% It is fundamental that all groups at risk are vaccinated, namely children under 5, people over 60 years, obese people, diabetics, hypertensives, cancers, asthma or any other disease with immune or immuno-protected, such as: HIV-positive people, "said Coronado Orduño.

He stressed that the health centers, social security, Issste and the urban health center will provide vaccines to all those who need them and will participate mainly in health campaigns in the main risk areas, such as nurseries and schools. , workplaces, factories, as well as in public places, where the virus can spread.

"Because if a case is presented, the environment may be contaminated and an epidemic may occur, we must immediately cut off the chain of transmission.To do this, isolate the patient from any overcrowded area of ​​the population. "said the epidemiologist. health jurisdiction 01.

Similarly, he noted that the risks of not being vaccinated and not being treated with symptoms such as influenza, temperatures above 38 and 39 degrees, headaches and general discomfort can aggravate pneumonia. severe or a problem of infection of the lower respiratory tract. this can put the life of the patient in danger.

Similarly, Coronado Orduño explained that it was very important to differentiate the symptoms of a cold and a flu because, in the first, there was no high temperature or headaches, it should not so not be considered a flu.

Warning

The epidemiologist of health jurisdiction 01 said that only cases arriving in hospitals monitored by influenza, namely the general hospital, social security and urban health center, will be confirmed. "The others are not going to take a sample, but they will be considered as an onset of the disease."

He noted that there was still a waiver of patients applying the AHIN1 flu vaccine due to several myths that hinder health.

"One of the main myths is that patients report that, when they receive the flu shot the next day, they show flu-like symptoms, but that the virus differs from the vaccine because it's a problem." 39, an incomplete virus, it does not have the ability to produce disease. "

Care in schools

Martha Ines Valenzuela Corrales, Coordinator of Health Promotion at the Health Jurisdiction 01, reported that training was underway in the educational structure of the Northern State Secretariat for Public Education. , in which He explains to supervisors and area managers how to master the situation of a student with flu symptoms. They then pass it on to each school where the same procedure is applied to teachers, students and parents.

"It's very important to educate the public that if our children have a common cold picture, take care at home, how not to care for themselves and go to the health center or the corresponding health unit, because if we take a child to school with flu symptoms, we will have 3 or 5 children with the same problem, "he said.

For this, Valenzuela Corrales urged the university structure to put in place prevention filters in each school unit, such as the application of antibacterial gel and chlorine cleaning in the classrooms of the educational institution.

Warnings

For his part, Felipe Velázquez Zazueta, head of the Sanitary Jurisdiction Division 01, urged the public to hydrate properly, to avoid the slightest impact of low temperatures and to take care of his personal hygiene.

"Our call is purely preventive, otherwise we will start having cases, and these cases will increase if the citizens do not take preventive measures.We just make the recommendations completely, if people do not do it, they can have the disease and nobody would like to have it, "he said.