More than 895, 500 Cubans were immunized against the seasonal flu during the recently concluded vaccination campaign that covered 99.5 percent of vulnerable cases.
All those vulnerable groups will be vaccinated again next year.
“Very few people presented side effects and in those cases they were minor effects, nothing serious,” Dr. Maria Josefa Llanes Cordero, coordinator for the Acute Respiratory Infections Group of the Public Health Ministry, told Granma newspaper.
The doctor extolled the work carried out by the health experts with the vaccination centers across the country and noted that they were very careful in handling the expensive vaccine. The campaign was aimed at people over 75 years old, youngsters between 20 and 24 years old who suffer from severe asthma, diabetics or chronic renal insufficiency under dialysis or hemodialysis treatment.
Also those living in nursing homes for the elderly and physically disabled received the shot as well as workers in poultry and pig farms. All those vulnerable groups will be vaccinated again next year before the beginning of the winter season in Cuba.
Source: escambray.cu/
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