From tomorrow bovine seasonal antigripal

By:Olga Lilia Vilató

More than 50 000 persons of Camagüey will be immunized against the virus of the seasonal flu by means of the vaccination campaign that tomorrow will begin, for space of two weeks, vaccinates that belongs together with the requirements of the World Organization of the Health (OMS), comes in bulbs of 10 dose, and represents a high cost.

In the information, offered by the doctor Leonardo Ramírez, director of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (CPHEM), assures that the supreme objective consists on protecting most vulnerable people and with more risks of suffering of complications, although clarifies, it doesn't constitute this the one conceived against the Influenza TO H1N1 that after being brought to Cuba, like annonced Margaret Chan , directress of the OMS in her recent visit to the country, will be administered to who corresponds.

The beneficiaries now are those bigger than 75 years, the diabetics and asthmatic among the 20 and 24 years who suffer of chronic renal affections or other inmunodepresors, the boarding schools in Homes of Old men, Handicapped Physical and Psychiatric hospital, the members of the Houses of Grandparents, the workers linked to poultry and swinish works and those that face the sick persons day by day with breathing ailments.

For the flu that circulates in the moment, now will protect against a virus group, but not all neither against the Influenza TO H1N1. Of there the importance of insisting in the measures of prevention.

This vaccine type has been applied for several years, but now the significant thing resides in to remove of the road that entire suffering that can confuse and to diminish, also, the catarrhal symptom. It will be given by means of a dose for via intramuscular in the well-known vaccination points. It doesn't cause flu, and in a low percentage of people causes fever and general uneasiness.

The main vaccine to avoid the Influenza TO H1N1, the doctor Leonardo insisted , it is the prevention, in groups so fragile also as are the pregnant ones. The laundry of the hands, not to cough without covering himself the mouth and the nose with the arm in angle, to do without of greetings efusives by means of the kisses, to use the personal articles as the word indicates it and to attend the doctor before any breathing ailment, are questions to keep in mind as the bread of every day.

The number of consultations doctors for these causes increased. Without doubts, there is bigger perception of the risk and people go to the doctor more, something very favorable because is momentous the precocious diagnosis of the Influenza TO H1N1 and the opportune treatment. For that the surveillance is vital, if we keep in mind that the ailment person raisin to person, for the mucous ones, the hands that have had contact with the nose, the mouth or the sick person's saliva.

The presage indicate that will never have a considerable decrease in the number of cases in what subtracts of this year, that is to say, the next one 2010 will come with high breathing squares because today the number of sick persons is still high and the time of the year rebounds in it.

We cannot trust, we are in a complex moment from the epidemic point of view and all the actions that we make are few, sentenced.

We have the human resources, materials and of medications to face these situations, but are highly expensive. Our State has never scanted the most minimum thing to preserve the human being's life, but we all have to contribute with our behavior.