Leprosy In Mexico 2020
Five cases of leprocy recorded in yucatan and quintana roo by yucatan times on october 17 2020 in the last few days five leprosy cases have been registered in the yucatan peninsula the health.
Leprosy in mexico 2020. Sinaloa and michoacan report the majority of cases with 32 and 15 respectively. Published on wednesday february 5 2020 631shares health officials in oaxaca have identified five cases of leprosy in the states isthmus of tehuantepec region. Registration of leprosy has been done since the colonial era and the disease was considered as a public health problem until the year 2004 in mexico when the incidence was achieved to be less than 1 per 10000 as defined by the world health organization who.
89 cases of leprosy reported in mexico in 2020 the ministry of health indicates that most of the infections have been reported in sinaloa. Five cases of leprosy have been detected in mexico the yucatan times reports. Leprosy is successfully treated with antibiotics at early and intermediate stages.
About 200000 new cases occur each year. So far in 2020 89 cases of leprosy have been documented in mexico of which two occurred between september 27 and october 3 included in the weekly epidemiological bulletin of the ministry of health. The infectious disease that damages.
Monday october 19 2020. According to a report by the ssa from january this year in 2018 there was a registry of 388 patients with leprosy. By miriam bello wed 10212020 1659 between january and september 2020 mexico has registered 89 leprosy hansens disease cases in 18 states.
Leprosy has been detected in several states of the republic and in several countries for several years its frequency has decreased in mexico due to various actions carried out over decades to combat it. Health authorities confirmed that at least 5 cases of.