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Influenza vaccination began
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 23:06
As part of the federal strategy which seeks to prevent the spread of human influenza virus type A H1N1, staff Saturday Health Jurisdiction number three started the application of 900 doses in the general population of the municipality of Carmen. From eight o'clock in the morning is a module installed in the health sector in the municipal market "Alonso Felipe de Andrade" in which women, men, children, babies, even adults with different abilities came to apply the corresponding dose .
The priority in this campaign are the babies open six to 23 months of age and persons who care for pregnant women, senior citizens age and medical consultations have been diagnosed with asthma or are prone to disease related to the respiratory system.
At this point of vaccination the vaccine was applied both human influenza type A H1N1 and the seasonal influenza for older people. However, it is noteworthy that those with hypertension had the need to improve the effectiveness of immunity so that two doses were applied.
It is necessary to explain that reactions vary from person to person, some can cause fever and not in others, the recommendations by the medical staff and nurses is that the person nominated to be vaccinated is not sick, ie have no cough, no influenza, which is not medicated for the vaccine "takes" effect through antigen to the immune system creates to prevent the disease from the body.
Jos? del Carmen Hern?ndez Ferrer, head of the Sanitary Jurisdiction three, said that at present only 900 will be applied open population doses on weekends, in which she recognized that the biological is not enough but you are working with what you have to prevent the disease.
It also made clear that in coming weeks they will be more vaccines to state health secretariat for distribution to the 11 municipalities.
The application of the vaccine will remain open until the expiry of the biological and continue installing the modules in open spaces such as in Morelos Market, Seafood, at the roundabout and Chechen defensive brigade to provide information to the community in which continues with the recommendations of hygiene at home, school and workplace.