Three states lead the numbers of dengue cases in the country in the epidemiological week 40 of the year, according to figures from the Epidemiological Bulletin of the National Surveillance System of the Ministry of Health (SS).
Nuevo Leon has 322 cases, 15 of them serious, and so far this year it accumulates 5 mil 153 infections; Jalisco, 266, 50 of them from danger, and add 8 mil 436 incidents; while Veracruz, with 255 infected, 12 delicate, accumulates 5 mil 296.
Only in epidemiological week 40, 2,398 cases were reported in the country, while throughout the year 75 thousand 076, details the report.
EMERGENCY DECLARATION
He Congress of Nuevo León unanimously approved, on October 8, an appeal to Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda to issue a declaration of emergency due to the more than 5 thousand infections reported in the entity, the highest number in the last 20 years.
The PRI deputy Ivonne Álvarez García He asked to call all sectors to an action plan for the epidemic of this virus.
Most cases focus on Monterrey, Guadalupe y Santa Catarina.
JALISCO, ON ALERT
The secretary of Health of Jalisco, Fernando Petersen Arangurenexplained about the cases of this disease that “in dengue we had 842 cases, reaching 8,436 cases. We only have one death that is proven.”
However, he denied that the infections are uncontrolled, because there are no collapsed medical services and that they represent 19 percent of hospitalizations, although he admitted that a specialized care area has already been created in the Zoquipan public hospital.
VERACRUZ, FOURTH PLACE
While Veracruz, With more than 5 thousand infected, 13 confirmed deaths from this disease are reported. In epidemiological week 40, the entity recorded an increase in deaths compared to the same period between 2023 y 2024, since last year there were four at that time.
Last year, on this date, there were more accumulated cases, 6,402; However, this year the figure is lower, with 5 thousand 296 incidents.
AND GUERRERO, ASKS TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY
In the name of PRD Parliamentary Group, Deputy Mirna Coria Medina proposed to exhort the Secretary of Administration and Finance of the State Government (Sefina), Raymundo Segura Estrada, so that, to the extent of budgetary capabilities, resources are allocated to programs to combat and care for diseases caused by the recent floods from Hurricane John, mainly dengue.
A bulletin reported that when presenting her proposal from the platform, the legislator said that last August, the Secretary of Health Guerrero confirmed an aggressive and atypical dengue outbreak that, compared to previous years, generated 5,613 confirmed cases and 30 deaths, with Acapulco, Chilpancingo, Iguala and Taxco de Alarcón being the most affected municipalities.