2023-04-24 15:26:38
The second stage of the 62nd National Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign will begin this Monday throughout Cubafor children who have received a dose in the first phase, developed between February 27 and March 4.
According to information from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), this The second stage coincides with Vaccination Week in the Americas, and will be recovered from May 2 to 6for infants who have not been able to receive the dose this week.
In the first stage of this 62 Campaign Children who were over a month old on February 27 were vaccinatedand those with three years of age.
Polio is an infectious-contagious disease that affects the central nervous system, mainly in children, and can cause muscle atrophy, paralysis, deformity and in some cases death.
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Cuba is the first country in Latin America to achieve the elimination of this diseaseand in 1995 received the Certification of Eradication of Poliomyelitis, by the Pan American Health Organization.
Currently, in Cuba the entire population under 72 years of age is protected against this highly contagious disease, and until 2021 more than 857,000,000 doses of the polio vaccine.
(With information from ACN and Minsap)
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