Approximately 7 390 nine-year-old infants and up to nine years, 11 months and 29 days will be benefited by a dose, in accordance with information offered by doctor Alina Tejeda Fuentes, provincial resposible of Immunization of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (CPHEM).

This second stage agrees with the 12th Week of Vaccination in The Americas, occasion in which in Cuba this one and other immunizations are facilitated to children who did not receive them for being sick or out of their Health areas in the moment that they had to receive it, according to the scheduled.

There must not be vaccinated the children who in this moment present high fever, vomiting, diarrheas, those who are immunodeficient or allergic to any of the components of the product. Neither water, nor food will be given 30 minutes earlier or after this preventive episode, consisting of two drops in the properly selected habitual vaccination offices or offices of the Community Doctor.
 
The Cuban population younger than 68 years is protected against this terrible illness and this vaccine was used in Cuba for the first time in 1962. Since then have been applied 83 million doses in the country.

Also, do not constitute a public health concern in the Cuban nation, the tetanus, the meningitis for Hemophilus influenzae type B and others, because the registered valuations are below 0,1 per 100 000 inhabitants, while the cases of fever typhoid and hepatitis B diminished their morbidity in an important way and also the death rate for these causes.

Since 1962 until 2014 six sufferings have been eradicated by means of this vaccination campaigns and other serious forms of others. Before the revolutionary victory in 1959 two illnesses managed to be eliminated: the yellow fever (1908), and the smallpox (1923).

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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