The health authorities of the United Kingdom have expressed concern, more precisely the Health Security Agency of Great Britain, when revealing that vaccination rates to prevent the emergence or spread of diseases such as measles have been seriously affected due to their reduction in cities like London.
According to the health authority, this significant drop could have an impact on the emergence of tens of thousands of cases of the disease, characterized by skin rashes, and which generally attacks children, but if transmitted to adults, in them it could have even more serious consequences, in some cases leading to death.
The warning from the Great Britain Health Security Agency suggests that this low vaccination rate can be reversed as quickly as possible, with the aim of curbing the distribution of this infectious disease.
According to the statistics presented with the health entity, less than 70% of minors, in some sectors of the city of London, have received at least the first vaccine against this disease, in addition to others such as mumps and rubella. , in an immunological treatment that indicates the need for minors to have at least two doses of it to achieve immunization.
According to excerpts from the statement from the British health authority, collected by international media, although the risk of an outbreak eventually emerging throughout the United Kingdom is low, the alarm in the city of London does reach a great risk under current conditions. .
Medical authorities invite mothers and fathers not to neglect the health of their children. | Photo: Getty Image
Regarding the projections of the Health Security Agency, the current situation derived from the low vaccination rate, in a call to parents not to neglect compliance with the plans drawn up by the national and international entities, could translate into the appearance of an estimated maximum of 160,000 cases of the disease.
In this same sense, the entity warned that this year, the contagion figures in the United Kingdom have increased by more than 100%, going from 54 cases in the first half of 2022, to 128 cases in the first half of 2023. .
At the moment, most of the cases in the United Kingdom have arisen precisely in the city of London.
By virtue of the above, in addition to issuing an alert, the authorities have pointed out the need to strengthen vaccination plans and the call to promote compliance with the necessary immunization plans in early childhood. This also suggests strengthening coverage capacities in some sectors of the city.
Although the low vaccination rates are more latent in the smallest members of the household, the warning from the Health Security Agency has indicated that the age group currently between 19 and 25 years presents a particularly high level of risk of contracting the illness.
In this regard, local media in that country have recalled that this population currently in that age group corresponds to children from the late 90s, when a local scientist in the United Kingdom stated that the MMR vaccine was related to the autism, leading parents to refrain from vaccinating their children.
Although this statement was made by a doctor known as Dr. Wakefield, their results were dismissed and the referred professional was punished, the vaccination rate failed to reverse its low figures, and unfortunately strengthened the anti-vaccine movement now with difficult and dangerous consequences.
Measles attacks the youngest members of the household and those over 30 years of age. | Photo: South_agency
At a global level, this situation is no different, although the medical authorities have attributed this condition to the effects of the pandemic, where these efforts to reduce the deficit in the vaccination rate, lost prominence by virtue of the situation that served us as humanity. .
According to the World Health Organization, WHO in the month of November 2021, about 40 million children in the world did not receive their respective phase of the vaccination program. In the case of Europe, there is a special affectation in countries such as Russia, Austria, Serbia and the United Kingdom.
Within the symptoms, in addition to rashes and outbreaks, important symptoms of fever and malaise also arise, which also lead to serious consequences such as blindness, encephalitis and pneumonia.
At the end of the 1990s in the United Kingdom, child vaccination statistics were affected by a rumor that was later denied, but which led to gaps in the country’s immunological approach. | Photo: Getty Images
2023-07-17 15:48:17
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