Annual Influenza Vaccination Campaign Begins

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Started fresh nights and dawns cold season - what are the high summer temperatures - in which thermometers can reach 14 centigrade degrees, what natives resent and acclimated to the high temperatures of the coast, so the sector health calls on the population to care for sudden variations of temperature to keep the air conditioning all day or use the fan on during the night.

The health sector in Jalisco announced since late October began the annual vaccination campaign against influenza, for the period autumn - winter 2014; the application of the biological starts in October and ends in March 2015, which is the season that coincides with a period of low temperatures, you favourable to the proliferation of respiratory infections such as influenza.

It is ideal to go to get the vaccine during October and November, prior to the period of December so arrival this time, the body has generated sufficient antibodies to deal with diseases that affect the respiratory system.

THOSE WHO BENEFIT MOST

The anti-influenza vaccine applies to population groups that most require, among them children six months to five years, patients with chronic diseases such as diabetic, hypertensive patients, people with HIV/AIDS or any debilitating disease of the immune system, pregnant women and older adults.

The goal established regarding dose to apply this year amounts to one million two thousand 705 doses and is expected to reach 80 percent for the month of December.

So far the vaccine demand has been lower than expected, so the health sector reiterated that pregnant women, children and the elderly are the most vulnerable need doses sufficient for all, mainly, and who can have the benefits of the biological as a preventive measure against respiratory disease.

For the winter Plan, the Federation marks that Jalisco must apply at least 200 million vaccines on their territory, but an effort to apply more, will become because you want to reach more people with risk factors, such as the obese, that it suffers from seven of every 10 Jalisco.

For more than one month, the SSJ received the first 450 thousand one million 200 thousand doses arriving in the State this year. The campaign gave began on October 14 with the application of biological to pregnant women in communities around Guadalajara its metropolitan area and municipalities of the sierra with low temperatures and greater shortcomings.

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