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08/07/2016
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Since the beginning of 2016, vaccination schedule against poliomyelitis has become of three doses of injectable vaccine
From the next vaccination campaign, scheduled for September, only children between six months and five years of age who have not completed the vaccination schedule will be vaccinated against polio. To the campaign last year, all of this age group took annual booster vaccine as a way to prevent some out of the targeted dose.
Since the beginning of 2016, vaccination schedule against poliomyelitis has become of three doses of injectable vaccine - at 2, 4 and 6 months, and two booster doses with oral version, known as droplet at 15 months and 4 years. In September campaign this year, only to be vaccinated children who did not take the five doses.
Until last year, the children received two intravenous doses, at 2 months and 4 months of life. At 6 months, 15 months and annually until 5 years of age were given oral doses. Even providing reinforcement, the Ministry of Health emphasizes that the three injectable doses already guarantee protection.
The vaccination campaign against polio, also known as infantile paralysis, occurs every year in the second half. In a statement, the Ministry of Health pointed out that the increase in the month of the campaign, from one year to the next, without prejudice to the immunization of the population, as polio is eradicated in Brazil since 1990.
Source: Mail 24 hours
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