Alfredo Valadez Rodriguez
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 12, 2024, p. 15
Zacatecas, Zac., Residents of southeastern Zacatecas yesterday demanded that state and federal health authorities urgently implement a fumigation plan exhaustive and permanent
in the face of proliferation In recent weeks, the mosquito that causes dengue fever has affected more than 50 percent of the population of the municipality of Mezquital del Oro.
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The problem is serious, according to the complaint spread on social media in that district. They stated that:
The above has caused this to become a local epidemic, which keeps more than a dozen people hospitalized, including children, young people, adults and the elderly, many seriously; other sick people are at home, bedridden.
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For the above We ask municipal, regional and state authorities to begin a comprehensive and permanent fumigation plan, as well as a sanitary cordon that will help provide a quick and effective solution to this public health problem, in addition to health brigades to care for the sick.
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They pointed out that A strategic, robust and aggressive plan is urgently needed to combat the spread of this insect
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In this regard, on July 23, the Zacatecas Health Secretariat reported that it detected eight cases of non-severe dengue
in patients residing in Mezquital del Oro, a town 256 kilometers south of the Zacatecan capital, for which nebulization operations with insecticides were reinforced, to prevent the spread of the mosquito responsible for the transmission of this disease
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Roberto Hernández, head of the Vector-Borne Diseases Unit, asked local residents to help clean and remove clutter from yards and rooftops to avoid leaving objects where rainwater could collect and serve as breeding grounds for these insects.
