They confirm a thousand of 236 cases of influenza and 81 deaths due to this

CDMX. December 14, 2018. At the end of the second week of December, Mexico confirmed one thousand 236 cases of influenza and 81 fatalities due to this preventive respiratory disease. vaccination.

According to the weekly report of the Directorate-General Epidemiology (DGE) from the Ministry of Health, until the last week (936), 300 cases of seasonal seasonal flu 2018-2019 were recorded.

This figure is the highest in the last six years, during the same flu period, while the number of fatalities is only one under 82 that were in the 2013-2014 season, the most aggressive since the crisis in 2009-2011.

Of the total number of confirmed cases in this period, 81 percent corresponds flu AH1N1, 13 per cent to B, 5 per cent to A, and 1 per cent to AH3N2.

Countries with the highest incidence of influenza include: Oaxaca, Veracruz, Guerrero, Mexico City and Tlaxcala, accounting for 41.7% of all.

Those with the highest number of deaths due to this condition are: Oaxaca, Veracruz, Mexico, Hidalgo and Puebla, which together account for 46.9 per cent.

In this season, age groups with the highest number of positive influenza cases: those aged 1 to 9 are followed by a group of people over 60 and those aged 40 to 49 years.

With information from Notimex.