Dana Estrada/ Agencia Reforma
Sunday, 07 May 2023 | 06:44
CDMX.- Despite the fact that 50 percent of the deaths caused by the seismic smallpox are concentrated in the Valley of Mexico, the vaccine to prevent these cases has not been acquired by the authorities.
And a year from which the first cases were reported, the hope that the vaccine will start to be lost.
“We took a year to demand from the Government and the Secretary of Health a vaccine against the smallpox, now we lost hope that they would listen to us, but we continued in the fight that there is medicine for those who live with HIV and avoid more deaths”, signaled the activist Alaín Pinzón, representative of the organization HIVve Libre.
According to figures that were disseminated at a meeting between activists and specialists in the health sector, of the 23 deaths that were registered by the viruela in the country, 10 were reported in Mexico City and one in Edomex.
“We are very bad in the matter of smallpox. We are the second country in Latin America with the highest mortality in smallpox”, complained Pinzón.
The viruela has been more aggressive with people who live with HIV, according to data from the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS. 95 percent of deaths occurred in HIV-positive patients.
