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19/01/2012
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Changes will be part of the immunization schedule and cost savings will result
The Health Ministry announced, on Wednesday (18), the new vaccination schedule in the country, which will be included in the injectable polio vaccine (made popular in Brazil in the form of the vaccine for this disease droplet) and pentavalent, Brazilians will protect against five diseases. The changes take effect in August this year.
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The injectable vaccine, which is made from inactivated virus "dead", will be applied only to children who are starting the vaccination schedule. The new polio vaccine should be taken to the first two months of age (she replaces oral), to four months, six months and 15 months.
The adoption of the new product will be done in parallel with the national immunization campaign, which will continue to be held with two drops of oral vaccine, according to Health Minister Alexandre Padilha.
- It [OPV] has a large effect of mobilization that must be maintained. But one has inactivated the great advantage that is protection. Although the oral was very low risk of adverse events after vaccination - were 46 cases in 20 years - the protection becomes much larger doses in the first, which had the highest notification of these events.
Polio is an infectious disease caused by wild poliovirus, which may reach the central system and cause muscle paralysis or even death.
The disease is highly infectious and affects mostly young children. The virus is transmitted through contaminated food and water and multiplies in the intestine, where it can spread and invade the nervous system. With that, he can destroy motor neurons that activate muscles. The patient may be called flaccid paralysis, which affects mainly the lower limbs.
One in every 200 infected people end up irreversibly paralyzed. Among these people, from 5% to 10% die because the muscles involved in breathing become paralyzed.
Because of vaccination campaigns against the disease, carried out in Brazil for over 30 years, the country has not reported cases of the disease for over 20 years - the last case was confirmed in 1989 in Paraíba. Vaccines are given to keep your body create a defense against infection and be "trained" to fight the virus.
Barbosa said that the polio vaccine with inactivated virus was included in the calendar to follow a global trend to accelerate the process of extinction of the disease on the planet.
There are still 25 countries in Asia and Africa where the problem persists, such as India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. Immunization is still needed, therefore, as there is a risk of a person to travel and bring the virus into the country.
Protection against five diseases
The pentavalent joins the current tetravalent, which includes vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and influenza, immunization against hepatitis B. The dose should be taken to two months (replacing the tetravalent and hepatitis B would be the first month), at four months (replacing the tetravalent) and six months (replacing the tetravalent and hepatitis B)
The Ministry of Health this year will buy 8.8 million doses of the pentavalent, with a total cost of R$ 91 million and 8 million multipurpose inactivated at a cost of R$ 40 million.
According to the Secretary of Health Surveillance, Jarbas Barbosa, the estimated savings with the new vaccine will be R$ 600,000 per year.
- With the new form of immunization families will put the least, the children will take less bite and we spend less on transportation and storage of these doses.
Within three years, the government intends to reach the heptavalent vaccine, which will bring the pentavalent immunization against meningitis C and polio inactivated conjoined.
As was
Age Vaccine Dose
At birth BCG-ID Single Dose
Hepatitis B 1st dose
1 month Hepatitis B 2nd dose
Tetravalent 2 months (DTP + Hib) 1st dose
Oral Polio Vaccine
Oral Rotavirus Vaccine Humando
Pneumococcal 10
3 months meningococcal C vaccine 1 st dose
Tetravalent 4 months (DTP + Hib) 2nd dose
Oral Polio Vaccine
Oral human rotavirus vaccine
Vaccine pneumcócica 10
Meningococcal C 5 months 2nd dose
Tetravalent 6 months (DTP + Hib) 3 rd dose
Oral Polio Vaccine
Oral human rotavirus vaccine
Vaccine pneumcócica 10
Yellow Fever 9 months Starting Dose
1 st dose MMR
Pneumococcal 10 Reinforcement
15 months DPT (DTP) 1st building
Strengthening Oral Polio Vaccine
Meningococcal C 3rd dose
4 years DPT (DTP) 2 building
2nd dose MMR
10 years Yellow Fever A dose every ten years
National Campaign for Children
Children under 5 years of oral polio vaccine
From 6 months to under 2 years Influenza Vaccine (Flu)
As is
Age Vaccine Dose
At birth BCG-ID Single Dose
Hepatitis B 1st dose
2 months pentavalent (DTP + Hib + HB) 1st dose
Inactivated polio vaccine
Oral Rotavirus Vaccine Humando
Pneumococcal 10
3 months meningococcal C vaccine 1 st dose
3 months pentavalent (DTP + Hib + HB) 2nd dose
Inactivated polio vaccine
Oral Rotavirus Vaccine Humando
Pneumococcal 10
Meningococcal C 5 months 2nd dose
6 months pentavalent (DTP + Hib + HB) 3 rd dose
Oral Polio Vaccine
Pneumococcal 10
Yellow Fever 9 months Starting Dose
12 months MMR 1st dose
Pneumococcal 10 Reinforcement
15 months DPT (DTP) 1st building
Strengthening Oral Polio Vaccine
Meningococcal C
4 years DPT (DTP) 2 building
2nd dose MMR
10 years Yellow Fever A dose every ten years
National Campaign for Children
Children under 5 years of oral polio vaccine
From 6 months to under 2 years Influenza Vaccine (Flu)
Source: Ministry of Health
Source: News R7
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