The high temperatures that have been registered in Mexico, with 24 of the 32 entities of the country above 40 degrees Celsius, have caused the first four deaths and 191 cases of heat coup until May 9, the Ministry of Health (SSA) said Wednesday.
In the weekly report of the epidemiological surveillance system of health damage due to extreme natural temperatures, the government agency said that this 2025 heat season has a accumulated of 335 cases, including 191 cases of heat stroke, and four deaths at the country level.
Two of the deaths occurred in Veracruz, one in San Luis Potosí and another in Tabasco, which corresponds to a lethality of 1.19%, the report said.
The SSA indicated that in the epidemiological week 18 “67 cases were notified and no death associated with extreme natural temperatures at the country level.”
According to the National Meteorological Service of the National Water Commission, an anticyclonic circulation in medium levels of the atmosphere and the low moisture content, will keep hot to very hot at the country, prevailing the heat wave in states such as Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas.
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In addition to Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, State of Mexico, Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla and Veracruz.
“From this day, the beginning of a new heat wave in Campeche and Yucatán is expected,” said the SMN.
The report indicated that in this heat season there is an accumulated of 335 cases in 26 different demarcations in the country, highlighting Jalisco and Tabasco that, together, represents 35.2% of the total notified cases.
The greatest registered affectation is the heat stroke with 57% of all cases, that is, 191 of the total; followed by dehydration, with 131 reports and burns with a record of 13.
Jalisco records the greatest number of cases of people affected by high temperatures, by adding 61, of them 41 are due to dehydration; 16 For heat blow and four with burns.
While Tabasco is the second state with more cases with 57, of which 48 are for heat stroke and 9 for dehydration. It is followed by Veracruz with 39 cases, of which 36 are heat blows; two with burns and one with dehydration.
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According to the weekly epidemiological surveillance report due to extreme natural temperatures, until July 3, 2024, there was a total of 183 deaths due to high temperatures in Mexico
With EFE information
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