Measles and Pertussis Advance in the State

Rubén Hernández In Tlaxcala 18 cases of pertussis have been recorded so far this year, representing an increase of 50 percent compared to the cases recorded throughout 2019, reported the head of the Ministry of Health (SESA), Rigoberto Zamudio Meneses. According to the state official, [...]

Chihuahua.- The cases of measles and pertussis increased to 514 and 85, respectively, so that the entity continues in the first place national due to the number of contagions, according to information from the Ministry of Health. In the case of measles, in only two days they documented new cases in nine of the 22 municipalities that report outbreaks in the entity. Cuauhtémoc concentrates 46.81% with 254, that is, 22 more contagions than those re…

In just one month, the cases of pertussis in Aguascalientes tripled, from 22 to almost 70, reported the head of the State Health Services Institute (ISSEA), Rubén Galaviz Tristan, who highlighted that most of the cases detected correspond to girls and boys, especially premature, whose mothers did not receive the vaccine during pregnancy. “Here something very important is that the cases we have had are premature from pregnant women who have not r…

With 30 confirmed cases of 49 suspects, the state records a rate of 16.7 percent TAMARA FIERRO/PORTAVOZ PHOTO: ALEJANDRO LÓPEZ In Mexico there are 749 confirmed cases of pertussis and 45 deaths due to it, however, according to statistics, Chiapas is one of the states with the most infections due to this disease, registering 1.21 infected for every 100,000 Chiapas people, in addition, the death of five people in such a short time.