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03/28/2013
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Older people should go to stations receive the annual dose of flu vaccine Photo: Ana White / The Globe
With the goal to immunize 31.3 million Brazilians, the National Vaccination Campaign against Influenza was launched on Tuesday (26) by the Ministry of Health The action will take place between 15 and 26 April, 65 000 health posts throughout Brazil. May be vaccinated persons aged 60 or older, children 6 months to 2 years, pregnant women, health care workers, the chronically ill, indigenous and imprisoned, and women up to 45 days after delivery (postpartum). This last group was included this year.
The vaccine protects against the three subtypes of influenza virus that circulated over last winter: A/H1N1, causing the so-called swine flu, A/H3N2, and influenza B.
According to Health Minister Alexandre Padilha, in postpartum women entered the priority group to have the same health conditions of pregnant women, and also because the vaccine helps protect the baby through breastfeeding.
During the campaign launch, the Secretary of Health Surveillance, Jarbas Barbosa, said that the vaccine is safe and denied that she is capable of causing flu.
- The virus is inactivated used. Therefore, no transmission by influenza vaccine. Sometimes, the person was already incubating the virus - said the secretary.
The target audience of the campaign is approximately 39.2 million Brazilians. The Ministry of Health wants to vaccinate at least 80% of this population. About 43 million doses of immunizing be distributed throughout Brazil.
- The goal is to prevent and reduce serious cases, hospitalizations and deaths - Jarbas Barbosa said.
The day of national mobilization campaign will be April 20, a Saturday.
The vaccine only protects against influenza, not against colds. People with severe allergy to eggs should not take the flu vaccine.
In the group of chronic patients who are entitled to receive the vaccine at clinics, are obese, cardiac, transplant recipients, diabetics, kidney patients and patients liver, among others. You must present a prescription at the time of vaccination.
The Ministry of Health calls attention vaccines with the private network. They can be from past campaigns and considered "old".
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