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Mexico Health Secretariat Releases Number of Infected by Zika and Chikungunya

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Foto de un mosquito Aedes aegypti, sospechoso de causar el virus del zika, bajo un microscopio en el Instituto Fiocruz de Recife, estado de Pernambuco, Brasil. Foto tomada el 27 de enero del 2016. En Puerto Rico, la primer mujer embarazada e infectada de zika dio a luz a un bebé saludable, dijeron autoridades de la isla. Se ha vinculado al virus, transmitido por picadura de mosquito, con la microcefalia, una malforación congénita en la que el bebé nace con una cabeza anormalmente pequeña. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Health centers in Guerrero have distributed mosquito repellent, with pregnant women the population in most need of protection. Photo: Cuartoscuro/Bernandino Hernández.

The Health Secretariat, through the General Directorate of Epidemiology, confirmed a total of 160 native cases of infections due to the Zika virus in Mexico, of which 30 are pregnant women.

In its weekly release, the Secretariat pointed out that Chiapas is the state that reports the most cases, with 82, while Oaxaca registers 59, Guerrero 7, Nuevo León 4, Jalisco 2, and Michoacán, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Tabasco Veracruz as well as Yucatán have recorded one each.

States such as Oaxaca have made fumigation drives to combat mosquitoes.
Photo:Cuartoscuro/Arturo Pérez Alonso.

The General Directorate of Epidemiology detailed that, in the case of infected pregnant women, 24 are from Chiapas, 5 from Oaxaca and one from Veracruz.

As to the Chikungunya fever, those infected rise to 11,577 and four deceased in the last weeks, with week 10 registering 182 infected but no deaths.

The most affected states are: Veracruz with 2,000 cases; Yucatán, 1,627: Oaxaca, 1, 190: Michoacán, 606; Guerrero, 1,673: Colima, 981 and Chiapas, 683.

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