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Cardinal falls victim to dengue as thousands stay away from annual religious festival | Guadalajara Reporter Traveler Alert!
“We ask you to free us from the epidemics that are currently devastating the state of Jalisco,” pleaded Guadalajara Auxiliary Bishop Jose Trinidad, in front of 7,000 worshippers outside the Instituto Cabañas. “Especially dengue, influenza and other calamities that don’t permit us to live life to the full.”Between September 27 and October 3, health authorities confirmed 373 new cases of dengue in Jalisco – the highest number ever recorded in a single week. Sixty-seven of those were the more serious hemorrhagic kind.The total number of cases of dengue confirmed in Jalisco is now 2,360, over ten percent of which are hemorrhagic.Jalisco leads the Mexican league table for suspected cases of dengue, with 26,537 probably cases recorded up until late September, more than double than second-placed Guerrero.
This story was sent in from Ivan Silva with this note:
From speaking to relatives in Mexico it appears that there is a for the most part not not very covered dengue fever outbreak in Jalisco (at least that’s where they are at). The words that this person said were “someone in every family has been affected”. According to wikipedia there is no commercially available vaccine, so why get people worked up about it?
