- Since the start of the 2023-2024 influenza season, 31 cases of influenza and 5 deaths have been confirmed in Quintana Roo.
OMAR ROMERO
CANCUN, Q. ROO.- A call for minors who are going to receive their influenza vaccine for the first time to be inoculated with two doses, is what specialists made to the population, in order to be protected from this virus, derived of the cases that exist throughout the country.
Julissa Rodríguez, medical manager of Vaccines at Sanofi Mexico, commented that there is currently a quadrivalent vaccine in the public sector, which offers greater protection by including 4 strains of the virus, and is completely free.
Given this, he insisted on the importance of having this protection, since it reduces the risk of cardiovascular death in older adults by up to 41 percent, the risk of death by 24 percent in a person living with diabetes, and in children of 6 to 35 months manages to reduce acute lower respiratory infection by up to 22 percent.
“We are seeing these low coverages compared to last year, that is why we are making this call. Vaccination against influenza is every season, it is important to emphasize that children under 9 years of age should receive two doses when it is the first time they are going to receive the vaccine.”
Hence he said that the southeast has atypical behavior, that is, there are more cases in the interseasonal season and it is time to go and get this biological, since it not only depends on the authorities, but on the citizens themselves to generate this awareness. .
According to the epidemiological report of the Ministry of Prevention and Health Promotion, since the beginning of the 2023-2024 influenza season, 5,380 positive cases have been registered in the country, of which 177 people died and in Quintana Roo 31 cases and 5 deaths have been confirmed.
In that sense, Óscar Tamez Rivera, pediatric infectious disease specialist, pointed out that the cases reported by the Epidemiological Surveillance System only correspond to infections confirmed by laboratory, but in reality it is estimated that these figures represent a third of the total incidence. hence the importance of promoting inoculation.
He added that influenza, being a dangerous virus and due to its easy evolution or mutation, every year the World Health Organization (WHO) updates the vaccine so that the population is protected against the most widely circulating strains, especially vulnerable groups.
“The number of susceptible people that an infected individual can infect those around him and with influenza ranges from 1.5 to 7 depending on the conditions and the number of people with whom he has been in contact. “The influenza virus is unpredictable, it is very dynamic.”
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2024-01-26 00:02:00
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