Around 2.500 zamoranoswho meet 65 years receive the vaccine this year against Herpes zoster, one of the novelties introduced by the Ministry of Health in the calendar of vaccinations. As indicated by the department headed by Alexander Vazquez“from 2023, people will be vaccinated born as of January 1, 1957 when they fulfill or have fulfilled 65 years. Progressively, the age cohorts to be vaccinated can be expanded, which will be reported in a timely manner.
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In addition, the Public Health Commission approved in 2021 vaccinate of herpes zoster to people with certain risk conditions from the 18 years old: transplant of hematopoietic progenitors, solid organ transplantation, treatment with drugs anti-JAK, HIV, malignant hemopathies and tumors solids undergoing chemotherapy.
Herpes zoster (HZ) is a very prevalentwith a higher incidence from the 50 years and in womenincreasing with age and, considerably, with the presence of immunosuppression and certain conditions of risk.
presents a low mortalitybut the complications that it can present, especially the neuralgia postherpetic (pain), can cause disability and decrease the quality of life, which is why it constitutes an important charge for society, both for the direct costs of the assistance (Primary Care, specialized consultations, hospital admissions, pharmacological prescriptions) as well as the loss of productivity in younger people and caregivers in older patients.
As explained by a report of the Ministry of Health, in the future “a increase of the incidence due to aging of the population and the growing number of people with comorbidities and with immunosuppression.
Other novelties of the vaccination schedule
In the Vaccination Calendar, not only for children, but for the entire lifethe Ministry of Health has also incorporated this year other news. For example, it includes routine vaccination against rotavirus in infants, for all born as of January 1, 2023.
The vaccination schedule is also modified against meningococcus B with a preview of age administration at 2 and 4 months. It may be applied to children born on or after November 1, 2022.
Castilla y León generalizes the Herpes Zoster vaccine in people over 65 years of age
New is also the expansion of vaccination against HPV (human papilloma virus) at the age of 12 to males, born on or after January 1, 2011.
Vaccination against the gripe in child population of 6 to 59 monthsstarting next season.
The Ministry of Health has substituted the sequential vaccination schedule against pneumococcus (VNC13v + VNP23v) for the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 20 valent (VNC20v) at age 65, that is, those born from the January 1, 1958.
And in the case of the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, the dTpa vaccine was replaced by DTaP-VPI at 6 years.
Vaccination is introduced COVID-19 during the pregnancy and in older than 60 years.
And finally, the vaccine againstl herpes zoster at age 65, born on or after January 1, 1957.
