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Dengue in Mexico
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Guy Courchesne



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:14 pm    Post subject: Dengue in Mexico Reply with quote
Someone posted this in the Costa Rica forum, but it references Mexico

http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=56533

The CDC is saying that dengue is on the rise throughout Latin America, and that Mexico in particular is struggling with the hemorrhagic version.

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Mexico has been struggling with an alarming increase in the deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue, which now accounts for roughly one in four cases. The government has confirmed 3,249 cases of hemorraghic dengue for the year through Sept. 15, up from 1,924 last year.


When I was living in Acapulco, I noticed that Guerrero state had a lot of public announcements on how to fight dengue and mosquitoes...they would send out health ministry staff, going door-to-door to check properties for standing water and to hand out pamphlets to property owners on how to keep safe.

What's it like in Chiapas and Oaxaca for this? We don't see anything like it way up in the mountains here.
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Dragonlady



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Guy Courchesne



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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http:// www.medicinenet.com/dengue_fever/page2.htm well that doesn't sound like much fun Crying or Very sad


Not at all! Sounds like ebola if you read page 3 for DHF...

http://www.medicinenet.com/dengue_fever/page3.htm
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MELEE



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There have been four reported cases in our town (1600 meters above sea level) so far this year, probably many unreported cases. There is a campaign to go around collecting junk where water could pool from people's yards, which many people actually collect bigger garbage all year for because you don't have to pay to throw stuff out under this campaign.

We have screens on our windows and sleep under a mosquito net. I'm also trying to get a hold of some neem trees to plant in our developments park. Neem is a tree from India that actually REPELLS mosquitos--if anyone knows how I can get one, please let me know.
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hlamb



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There was a story on the local tv station recently about dengue in rural areas around Cuernavaca. They don't seem to think it's a problem in the city, at least not now, but they are trying to get rid of standing water in the rural parts of the state.
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Elise9



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My mom and dad came from Canada to meet me in Vallarta at the beginning of August, and despite using all mosquito bite prevention we could, my mom contracted Dengue! The syptoms didn't show up until she was back in Canada, so she had her local health care to help her, but she had a hard time recovering from it.
She's fine now; back to normal thank goodness.
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Guy Courchesne



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
How long did it take her to recover?
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Elise9



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
to recover to functional and eating normally again, about two weeks. But it was four weeks or so before she had her energy back, and could taste food again. She said that it was hard to want to eat again when nothing tasted right.
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Guy Courchesne



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


Here's a dengue distribution map. Didn't know you could find it right up to the US border along the coasts. Only the high desert and the central mountain areas are free.

Whoops, I guess image posting is out along with the PMing.

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to recover to functional and eating normally again, about two weeks. But it was four weeks or so before she had her energy back, and could taste food again. She said that it was hard to want to eat again when nothing tasted right.


Wow...I didn't know it knocked out your appetite.

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GueroPaz



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