Despite the efforts of the authorities to induce the population to immunize, the city of Balti records the lowest vaccination rate in the country. While on the territory of the country the average is 95%, in Balti it is only 87 percent.
Viral hepatitis B, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, infection with rotavirus, pneumococci, measles and rubella and human papillomavirus infection are among the 13 diseases against which the National Immunization Program 2023-2027 provides for mandatory vaccination of the population.
PAVEL FLOREA, director of the Center for Family Doctors: „When we think about refusing a vaccine, we automatically put ourselves at risk for contracting these infectious, untreatable diseases. The risk or transmission of these vaccine-transmissible diseases is very rapid. Airborne, sneezes, droplets, these are very easy ways. It is a disease, that if there is even one infected person, it is immediately transmitted to 100 others.”
According to specialists, the greatest reluctance is registered with vaccines administered against hepatitis B, diphtheria, whooping cough, hemophilic infection and poliomyelitis, with those against Papillomavirus and coronavirus. This is largely due to false information circulating on the internet, sowing doubt and fear in the community.
The most popular myths about immunization sound like this: the vaccine causes infertility in girls, epilepsy and autism.
- Immunization causes autism
- A relative’s little girl developed epilepsy following vaccination
- Do not vaccinate girls because they will not have children for life
Immunologist Valeria Dascăl combats the myth that the measles vaccine causes epilepsy.
VALERIA DASCAL, immunologist: “This myth is more about the measles vaccine. There used to be some data in the literature. Of course this theory was not confirmed, the person was deprived of the degrees he had as a scientist.”
Furthermore, doctors say there have been no confirmed cases of the vaccines causing disability. So the information that immunization would condition the appearance of epilepsy in children is not factually confirmed.
PAVEL FLOREA, director of the Center for Family Doctors: “All the cases of adverse reactions that have been analyzed so far have not demonstrated any case of a direct link between the vaccine and the occurrence of any disability. Conversely, when we don’t do the vaccine, some disability may occur.”
The fact that vaccinating girls against pPapillomavirus causes infertility is also not factually confirmed, on the other hand, if parents refuse immunization, their child is at risk of cervical cancer. Disease that causes the death of thousands of women in our country.
ELENA TUREAC, CSP Balti specialist: “They probably read information on social networks, because all the reactions are reported. There are also problems with the Papillomavirus vaccine because there is a lot of negative information on social networks and parents fear that it causes infertility, although the first to get vaccinated long ago are mothers.”
According to the specialists from the Public Health Center in Balti, all vaccines that arrive in our country are certified. Among the adverse reactions that are recorded following immunization are fever and local pain.
ELENA TUREAC, CSP Balti specialist: “Regardless of the manufacturer, all vaccines pass testing in the WHO laboratory. Only after obtaining the guarantee certificate, they reach the market, including in the Republic of Moldova. And during transport, a constant temperature is respected, all the way to the consumer.”
Alina Scoropat is the mother of two boys. She says that she vaccinated both her children without hesitation, and was informed about the immunization process by the family doctor and the pediatrician.
SCOROPAT ALINA, mother: “Yes, for sure, for both children, so far I have had all the vaccines. There are many myths, but we can’t help it, in the society we live in, we have to vaccinate to protect our children, for their health.”
People who have been vaccinated say that they decided to immunize to protect their health and that of those close to them
“I agree that the child should be vaccinated. I got it, the first child got it and I think she needs to be vaccinated too. We had no complications with the first one. Where do you get your information from? I went to the family doctor, he checked us, everything is fine and we are going to the vaccine.”
“After all that is done there is some fear, but it seems to me that people do them. I got the flu vaccine myself this fall, recently they called me to get a staphylococcus vaccine, but I’m still thinking about it. In general, we are still old and we still believe, but now that he is talking about the vaccines we made for covid, the world is a bit afraid.”
However, those who refuse to vaccinate cite various reasons, but do not have clear arguments why they do not do it.
“We don’t give the vaccines. I don’t know, we’re like this without a vaccine and still normal.”
“Versus. Why? First of all, I’m oncology, and I can’t afford it. I know everyone complains that it doesn’t help much. Even my aunt told me that she got the vaccine and after two weeks she got sick.”
Romania announced a measles epidemic at the beginning of December 2023. More than two thousand cases have been reported, resulting in three deaths, including two seven-month-old babies who may have contracted the disease from their unvaccinated older siblings.
And in 2016, over 16,000 cases were registered throughout the year in the neighboring country. 60 children died. 95% of infected people were not vaccinated.
To prevent a measles epidemic, the World Health Organization recommends that at least 85% of children be vaccinated against measles.
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2024-01-20 07:26:30
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