Migrants from Central America continue to reintroduce Malaria into Chiapas

Posted on February 28, 2012 • Filed under: Latin America Health, Mexico, TRAVEL

Tapachula, Chiapas. – The transit of migrants has caused the disease malaria has been controlled in its entirety, so the doctor and researcher exposed in Health Sciences National Institute of Public Health and the Regional Research Center in Public Health (CRISP), Maria Guadalupe Martinez Vazquez. He said that “there are few cases of malaria cases, but unfortunately we have constant reintroduction of the disease by the presence in the area of ​​several undocumented migrants.”
He added: “They come from Central America many people looking to move and reach the United States, so some are sick and are reintroducing the disease.”
He said that “migrants are suffering from malaria, cause without knowing that evil is played, and that when the mosquito bites them, the vector, the disease begins again.” Read Article

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