In Yucatan 21 deaths from dengue have been officially registered.
Since epidemiological week 10 new cases were confirmed, placing Yucatan in fourth place nationally in mortality rate, revealed the National Institute of Epidemiological Reference (InDRE) of the Ministry of Federal Health.
Meanwhile, in the Yucatan Peninsula, there are already 58 deaths resulting from this lethal pathology, that is, 28.57 percent of the national total.
In epidemiological week number 49, it was announced that 40 people lost their lives as a result of this vector disease, 16 of which are from the Peninsula.
To date, 929 deaths due to probable dengue have already been reported, of which 203 are confirmed, 357 are under study and 369 have been ruled out.
Therefore, so far this year, in Mexico, there are 203 accumulated confirmed deaths, distributed in 22 states.
The highest Dengue mortality incidence is in Veracruz, with 40 deaths, followed by Morelos, with 34 deaths, Quintana Roo, with 22 deaths, in Yucatán, 21 lost their lives, while in Oaxaca there are 18 deceased, Campeche, with 15 extinct, and Guerrero, with 14.
Likewise, in Tabasco nine expired; six dead in Puebla; four in Chiapas, and three in Michoacán.
Likewise, in Colima, State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Sonora, two people lost their lives, correspondingly, and the rest are from Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Nayarit, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas.
At the national level, so far, mortality increased by 383.02 percent, compared to the same period in 2022, when there were 53 cases, while in Yucatán, there was only one death that year. Nationwide, the fatality rate for dengue is 0.86, while in the state of Yucatán the rate is 0.35.
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