There was a recent outbreak among U.S. patients who traveled to Matamoros earlier this year for surgeries, resulting in at least five suspected cases of fungal meningitis, one of whom died from the infection
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By MARK LORENZANA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the acquisition of the bivalent vaccine booster produced by Pfizer-BioNTech against the Omicron variant, as well as the original strain, of the covid-19 virus. Medical experts in Mexico, however, are not too optimistic about the shots arriving in the country anytime soon. “At least in the short term,
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies from three Mexican political parties — the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) — are set to file an official complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for the expiry and wastage of more than 5 million covid-19 vaccines. On Saturday, Sept. 25, Mexican daily
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, on Saturday, Sept. 25, reported that 5.4 million covid-19 vaccines had expired in Mexico and are set to be thrown away. Of the total wasted vaccines, 3.4 million are of the AstraZeneca brand, donated by the U.S. government, and stored in a warehouse of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) in Cuautitlán Izcalli, in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico broke another record of daily covid cases on Tuesday, Jan. 18, with close to 50,000 new cases registered by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA). In total, the SSA reported 49,343 new covid-19 infections and 320 deaths in one 24-hour period. That raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country since the
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently oblivious to the fact that his words were streaming live on the internet Friday, Nov, 19, Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela told attendees to the International Congress of Mental Health in Acapulco that indicators suggest that Mexico will soon enter a fourth wave of covid-19 infections. “Today, we are seeing early signs
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) figures, a total of 200,256 Mexicans died of covid-19 infections in 2020, a figure that is 34.7 percent higher than the 148,629 cases reported by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA) at the close of last year. The SSA figures only counted covid deaths that occurred
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite the growing number of new cases of covid-19 in Mexico during the third wave of the pandemic, the return to in-person classes is still uncertain. As of Friday, July 30, at least seven Mexican states had reported critical hospital occupancy levels, above 70 percent, while, in most other states, the number of confirmed
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As the third wave of covid-19 infections in Mexico settles in, 85 percent of the 79,828 active cases of the disease in the country are concentrated in just 16 states, according to the epidemiological report of Tuesday, July 20, issued by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA). The highest concentrations of new cases are in
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