Before the start of the winter season 2023-2024, the Health Secretary state recommends that the population apply the vaccine against influenza seasonalas it details in a press release that “(the) ability of this vaccine to prevent serious cases y deaths is high, so it focuses on population groups that are at greater risk of presenting complications due to this viral illness”.
Health explains that the risk groups in the population include the minors from 6 to 59 months of age, adult people 60 years and older, embassys, health personnel and population from 5 to 59 years of age who live with comorbidities such as morbid obesity y chronic diseases such as diabetes, as well as people with HIV and patients on treatments that cause temporary or permanent immunosuppression.
He emphasized the health dependency “that the clinical evolution of the disease It is mild in most people, recovering in one or 2 weeks without the need for medical assistance; However, serious manifestations are common in this population group.”
Also for this winter season 2023-2024, evidence documents that the simultaneous vaccination contra Covid-19 e influenza seasonal available in Mexico, is safe and does not reduce the immunogenicided (ability to generate immune responses) nor the safety of both.
The seasonal flu is a acute respiratory infection caused by a virus with ribonucleic acid (ARN) and it is known that 3 viral types (A, B and C) mainly affect people, presenting a pattern of higher seasonal incidence in winter and a preference for respiratory tract upper, from the anterior nasal passages to the larynx, although in severe cases it can affect the lower respiratory tract: trachea, bronchi and lungs.
In the winter season 2022-2023 in Mexico, 9,877 positive cases were confirmed influenza and in our state, until last September, 197 cases of 2,580 samples taken were recorded.
2023-10-22 16:04:07
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