By Esther De la Cruz Castillejo
esther@enet.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas -. With the immunization of some 25, 000 children Las Tunas eastern province will unite to the vaccination campaign against the poliomyelitis that begins in all Cuba

next March 5.

According to data, obtained by the colleague of Radio Victoria, Esnilda Romero Mana, the task is foreseen in two stages and will run until the end of April.

The first stage includes children from one month to two years, with 11 months and 29 days; while the second stage reaches the distribution from another dose to the same infants and the reactivation of the vaccine to 6, 600 children in the age of nine years, with 11 months and 29 days.

The experts advise do not vaccinate children who present high fever, diarrhea and vomits, as well as those that suffer from an immunodeficiency or an allergy to the formula.

The campaigns against the poliomyelitis, a severe viral illness, began in Cuba in 1962 and so far more than 78 million doses of this vaccine have been distributed in the Caribbean island.

In the last 50 years Cuba has eradicated by means of vaccines other illnesses, such as diphtheria (in 1979), measles (1993), rubella and whooping cough (1994); the neonatal tetanus (1972), the syndrome of congenital rubella and the meningoencephalitis posparotiditis (1989).



 

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