The Importance of Social Mobilization in Reducing Dengue Cases: Insights from Virologist Robert Paulino

The Importance of Social Mobilization in Reducing Dengue Cases: Insights from Virologist Robert Paulino

Social mobilization is essential to reduce fatal cases of dengue, said virologist Robert Paulino, who highlighted that to date licensed vaccines against dengue have not been able to be used in highly endemic countries. This occurs, explained the Dominican researcher, because vaccines are affected when the levels of antibodies (due to the infection) are very … Read more

The Rates of Admissions Due to Covid in Spanish Hospitals Have Doubled Among Those Over 60 in Just One Month

The Rates of Admissions Due to Covid in Spanish Hospitals Have Doubled Among Those Over 60 in Just One Month

The rates of admissions due to Covid in Spanish hospitals have doubled among those over 60 in just one month. This is indicated by the latest respiratory infection surveillance report, referring to the week of August 28 to September 3. Since the beginning of the summer, the indicators have been showing an increase in the … Read more

Vaccines against COVID-19: Ministry of Health Ensures Proper Storage and Cold Chain Monitoring

Vaccines against COVID-19: Ministry of Health Ensures Proper Storage and Cold Chain Monitoring

Vaccines against COVID-19 are found throughout the country and the Ministry of Health (Minsa) frequently monitors the correct storage and cold chain to guarantee their use, said the Vice Minister of Public Health, Ricardo Peña Sánchez. During his presentation before the ‘Special Commission for Monitoring Emergencies and Risk and Disaster Management-COVID-19’ of the Congress of … Read more

Vaccination Coverage in Chihuahua: Statistics and Trends

Vaccination Coverage in Chihuahua: Statistics and Trends

According to the Consultation System of the National Health Information System, until August 2023, the state of Chihuahua averaged 76.2 percent in vaccination coverage that includes tetanus, diphtheria, and hepatitis for girls and boys aged 5 to 6 years. with 11 months. Regarding girls and boys from 12 to 23 months, the state of Chihuahua … Read more

COVID-19 Vaccination Update: Over 37,000 Doses Administered in Chihuahua State

COVID-19 Vaccination Update: Over 37,000 Doses Administered in Chihuahua State

The Ministry of Well-being pointed out that this year there are 37,000 doses applied against Covid-19 in the state, it mentioned that the new strategy contributes to the comfort of the population since they can go to the health unit closest to their home, in So far this 2023 in Health Region III through its … Read more

Preservation of Vaccines: Guaranteeing Safety and Protection – Cenares Assures Adequate Measures

Preservation of Vaccines: Guaranteeing Safety and Protection – Cenares Assures Adequate Measures

The preservation of vaccines is fully guaranteed, since the necessary sanitary and administrative measures are in place for their protection, reported the National Center for the Supply of Strategic Health Resources (Cenares). It was in relation to the statements of an official of the company Aldem SAC, provider of the storage service, released in a … Read more

Expired Vaccines Controversy in Zacatecas: Parents Raise Concerns about Children’s Inoculation in November 2022

Mothers and fathers of families in Zacatecas raised their voices, as children are supposedly inoculated with expired vaccines in November 2022 in some schools. Doctors from Zacatecas denounced the Ministry of Health because they allegedly told them to apply expired vaccines to children. Parents received the news that girls and boys in institutions would receive … Read more

Brussels Authorizes Pfizer’s Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Vaccine: Latest Updates and Information

Brussels Authorizes Pfizer’s Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Vaccine: Latest Updates and Information

Brussels authorizes the adapted vaccine against Pfizer’s Omicron XBB.1.5 variant Following the positive recommendation issued this week by the European Medicines Agency (EMA in its acronym in English), the European Comission has authorized this Friday the marketing of the new vaccine adapted against the XBB.1.5 variant of covid19 developed by the BioNTech-Pfizer laboratory. This is … Read more

Workers Denounce Expired Childhood Covid-19 Vaccines in Zacatecas Ministry of Health

Workers Denounce Expired Childhood Covid-19 Vaccines in Zacatecas Ministry of Health

Workers of the Zacatecas Ministry of Health (SSZ) denounced this Wednesday that they received the order to apply childhood vaccines against Covid-19 that expired since November 2022. One of those in charge of applying the biological who asked to keep her identity anonymous announced that the urban health center “Dr. Francisco Esparza Sánchez” from the … 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