Second stage of antipolio vaccination in Cuba

More than half million of children in Cuba will be protected of the poliomyelitis, during the second stage of the 49 National Campaign of Vaccination against that illness that next Friday will begin.

In this period a second dose of the vaccine will be administered (two drops for oral via), to a total of 362 thousand 525 smaller than three years (from 30 days of born until the two years, 11 months and 29 days) that were immunized in last March, informs today Granma newspaper.

Also, in this occasion will be reactivated with a dose 143 thousand 080 nine year-old children (from the nine years until 11 months and 29 days).

This vaccine should not be administered to the small children that present high fever, vomits or diarrheas, and is contraindicated in those that have some inmunodeficiency, and in the allergic ones to anyone of its components.

The average water contains chlorine that inactive the vaccine, reason why should not be ingested in the previous neither later 30 minutes to the immunization that will be carried out in the vacunatories of the policlinics with the support of the Committees of Defense of the Revolution and other organizations of masses.

Since almost half century, when the first of these campaigns began, have been applied in the Island more than 78 millions of dose of the vaccine, what guarantees the population's protection smaller than 62 years.