Flu Vaccination in Schools: Protecting Children in the Region of Murcia

Flu Vaccination in Schools: Protecting Children in the Region of Murcia

The vaccine against gripe This course arrives for the first time in schools in the Region of Murcia after the pilot experience carried out last year by the Ministry of Health. The objective of the department headed by Juan José Pedreño is to immunize first and second year preschool students in educational centers at the … Read more

Nurses in Primary Care Centers face expanded vaccination schedule in Catalonia

Nurses in Primary Care Centers face expanded vaccination schedule in Catalonia

Las nurses of the primary care centers (CAP) of Catalonia, nails 5.700 (26,700 in the overall health system), they will have to put this year more vaccines than ever. He vaccination schedule This season is expanded and nurses, in addition to all the vaccines they already give each year, will have to immunize too from … Read more

Start of Covid and Flu Vaccination in Valencian Community with Vulnerable Patients

Start of Covid and Flu Vaccination in Valencian Community with Vulnerable Patients

Friday, September 8, 2023, 17:34 The Minister of Health, Marciano Gómez, announced this Friday that the Covid and flu vaccination will begin in the Valencian Community the week of October 16 to 23 with vulnerable patients. Gómez made these statements to the media after presiding over the meeting of the Consejo de Gobierno Consorci Provincial … Read more

COVID and Flu Vaccines: Fifth Dose and Joint Administration for Target Groups in Andalusia

COVID and Flu Vaccines: Fifth Dose and Joint Administration for Target Groups in Andalusia

The fifth dose of the covid vaccine will be administered from October together with that of the flu to protect the target groups from both infections, after 60% coverage of these groups was reached in 2022, when it should have reached “the 80-85%». The Public Health Commission recommends them to people over 60 years of … Read more

Why it is Advisable to Vaccinate Children Against the Flu: Insights from Pediatric Infectologist Elisa Garrote

Why it is Advisable to Vaccinate Children Against the Flu: Insights from Pediatric Infectologist Elisa Garrote

In a few weeks a new flu vaccination campaign begins. The main novelty this year is the inclusion of children between 6 months and 5 years of age among the population for which the injection is indicated. The preparation, recommended by the WHO and the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP), is already administered to healthy … Read more

New Flu Vaccine Coverage for Children in Castilla-La Mancha and Throughout Spain

New Flu Vaccine Coverage for Children in Castilla-La Mancha and Throughout Spain

Children under the age of six months to five years will be able to receive, for the first time, the flu vaccine in Castilla-La Mancha. Is about a new coverage that will take place throughout Spain during this campaign -until now only children with underlying pathologies were vaccinated- and which aims to reach 1.6 million … Read more

Flu Vaccine for Children in Extremadura: Age Recommendations and Vaccination Campaign

Flu Vaccine for Children in Extremadura: Age Recommendations and Vaccination Campaign

Extremadura will begin to give the flu vaccine for the first time for children from six months to 4 years and 11 months. It will be at the beginning of autumn, in October predictably, when the Extremadura Health Service (SES) will administer it in a general way for the next vaccination campaign, as it can … Read more

Extremadura Achieves High Coverage in Flu Vaccination and Targets Vulnerable Population

Extremadura Achieves High Coverage in Flu Vaccination and Targets Vulnerable Population

Estremadura purchase 80,000 flu vaccines for the next campaign, which will begin in October. The Extremadura Health Service (SES) has invested 2 million euros in the acquisition of these new doses with the aim of immunizing 80% of those over 65 years of age, the most vulnerable to the flu virus. The expected protection is … Read more

Study on Co-Administering Flu and Covid-19 Vaccines in Spain’s Regional Hospital of Málaga

Study on Co-Administering Flu and Covid-19 Vaccines in Spain’s Regional Hospital of Málaga

A surprising clinical advance may take place, in the coming months, in several hospitals in Spain. Among them, the Regional Hospital of Málaga. And it’s going to start co-administer the flu vaccine with the Spanish Covid-19 vaccine, Bimervax. The objective is to verify the effects of both vaccines administered at the same time in the … Read more

Ministry of Health Extends Flu Vaccination to Children Up to 5 Years: Latest News and Recommendations

Ministry of Health Extends Flu Vaccination to Children Up to 5 Years: Latest News and Recommendations

The Ministry of Health has decided to include the children up to 5 years in vaccination against influenza for this upcoming season in all the autonomous communities, a measure that has already launched the Region of Murcia in a pioneering way in the last vaccination campaign 2022-2023 and that will now be extended to the … Read more