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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4675864.html
March 30, 2007, 3:56PM
"Fatal form of dengue fever surges in Mexico"

By MARK STEVENSON
Associated PressMEXICO CITY —

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "More alarming is that a deadly hemorrhagic form of the disease, which adds internal and external bleeding to the symptoms — is becoming more common. It accounts for one in four cases in Mexico, compared with one in 50 seven years ago, according to Mexico's Public Health Department.

While hemorrhagic dengue is increasing around the developing world, the problem is most dramatic in the Americas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

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Mexico Dengue Goes Deadly
Prensa Latina ^ | March 22, 2007

Posted on 03/22/2007 2:08:24 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch

Mexico, One out of every four dengue cases in Mexico is hemorrhagic, the most dangerous and deadly form, Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordoba asserted.

The fight against dengue is one of the main health programs today, said Cordoba, who called for all social sectors to participate actively in its elimination.

He recalled that there was one case of hemorrhagic dengue in Mexico per every 50 cases of classical dengue seven years ago, but there is one per every four cases now, hence the urgent need to adopt the necessary measures, he explained.

According to an epidemiological general view by the Mexican Health Secretary s Office, there were 4,477 hemorrhagic-dengue cases, which caused 20 deaths.

The official said the most effective way to control the epidemic is to constantly destroy deposits of the virus transmitting agent, the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.

Cordoba visited Quintana Roo state, some 746 miles west of this capital, and called to intensify preventive actions and continue the joint programs among the municipal, state, and federal government levels.