Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]

Flu vaccination of Cuban children begins

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Date: 2021-12

The pediatric population of Cuba from six years to 11 months and 29 days old will receive flu vaccination from Monday, October 11, aimed at preventing serious complications associated with seasonal influenza in the southern hemisphere.

The group will receive two doses of the vaccine with an interval of four weeks between them, in a designed campaign that will last until next December.

It also incorporates pregnant women, regardless of the trimester in which the pregnancy is in, and asthmatics and diabetics between 19 and 24 years old, according to a note from the Ministry of Health.

Subsequently, the adult population aged 85 and over and those institutionalized in nursing homes, grandparents’ homes and psycho-pedagogical centers will also be vaccinated.

Added to these are poultry and livestock workers with exposure to risk of influenza, highlights the text.

Among those prioritized are patients with chronic kidney failure, over six years with infantile cerebral palsy and cystic fibrosis, as well as admitted chronic psychiatric patients and care service workers with severe acute respiratory infections.

Influenza is a contagious respiratory illness caused by flu viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs, can cause mild to severe episodes, and are sometimes fatal.

In the annual campaign, Cuba has also immunized against poliomyelitis since 1962 and thus became the first country in Latin America to be declared a territory free of this infectious-contagious disease that affects the central nervous system.

The national immunization program includes vaccination against 13 diseases, eight of the products are developed and produced on this Caribbean island.

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