Among the prioritized are the nursing ones from between 6 months and 1 year, the asthmatic children from 3 to 4 years and all the pregnants, who will receive the medicine through her doctors and nurses of the community.

“This vaccine immunizes against several types of viruses causative of respiratory illnesses -which proliferate more in this season- and diminishes the complications that lead to the death. Its effectiveness is proved by the World Health Organization (WHO) and by the previous campaigns”, said Ernesto Pillado Fernández, director of the Provincial Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Since 1999, Cuba proposed to increase the doses of the anti-flu vaccine to protect more persons, fundamentally the most vulnerable, in the effort of diminishing the morbidity for Influenza and the death rate for Pneumonia.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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