SSJ Warns: the dengue fever is coming with full strength

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The high risk season is coming
Heavy rains are predicted, along with humidity, accumulation of old kitchenware, pottery and tires, besides the fact that people do little to prevent this.

Puerto Vallarta Jalisco News.- The sate government of Jalisco has petitioned the city hall of Puerto Vallarta, more coordinated tasks, so that together they can perform preventive work to eliminate the dengue fever, as the high risk season is coming.

This is what Candelaria Villanueva the councilor of Movimiento Ciudadano, president of the Health commission, commented to the media.

A requisition was handed over to this government by the government of Jalisco, where the Health Ministry petitions the mayor and to the 8th Health Jurisdiction, for the coordination of works and actions in favor of the citizens.

This document is signed by the Health minister, Jaime Agustín González Álvarez, in which he hands over to the local authorities, actions to confront the rainy season and prevent dengue fever.

Dengue fever is a sickness transmitted by the mosquito Aedes Aegypti which reproduces itself in containers filled with rain water.

It is a viral infection that can endanger the lives of people, besides being a public health issue.

The document shows that by the closing of the year 2012, four serotypes of the virus were identified as being in circulation.

Condition which increases the risk of a greater amount of severe and non severe dengue cases.

With cooperation, during the next rainy season it is necessary to take the following preventive measures:

• Carefully control the physical sources, wash, mop, turn over, throw away or recycle any container which accumulates water in houses, offices, parks, gardens and graveyards.

• Solicit all of the commercial businesses, especially those of groceries and tires, to have control over recipients.

• Authorize garbage trucks to accept tires and recipients that could function as mosquito hatcheries.

• Warn the citizens about the risk that dengue represents to the health and promote organized participation from the community.

• Actively participate with the regional and local health authorities, in all of the actions against this disease.