Since the 7-strain vaccine was developed against pneumococcusa bacterium that severely affects the health of children and older adults. The invasive disease caused by this bacterium, which includes sepsis, meningitis, arthritis, pneumonia, cellulitis and endocarditis, has decreased considerably.
However, doctors and experts in vaccines seeing that other variants of the pneumococcus were also making the child and adult population sick, they have developed new vaccines against him pneumococcus containing 10, 13, 15 and 20 strains. The latter approved in April 2023 by the FDA for use in children and adds serotypes 8, 10A, 11A, 12F and 15B to the pneumo 15 vaccine. Remembering that there is a Pneumo-23 vaccine that should be administered from 2 years of age. And that unvaccinated young people and older adults should first get a dose of pneumo-13 or pneumo-15 and a year later pneumo-23 to achieve a good protection.
People should be aware that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations regarding vaccines, are not considered definitive until they have been approved by the FDA and have been published by the CDC in its weekly bulletin “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”. One more example of the guarantee in the safety of the vaccines.
Thanks to the vaccines against hemophilus influenzae, the pneumococcus and others vaccines that pediatricians apply to children from 2 months of age, the rows of children that we saw in our hospitals with pneumonia, otitis media and meningitis are less frequent every day. And the life-threatening epiglottitis has all but disappeared, to become a bacterial complication that our young medical students and doctors today only see in books.
If parents are unclear about the vaccines of their children, that they speak with their pediatricians and that they take advantage of the follow-up visit to the healthy child, verifying that their vaccines be up to date That the Specialized Medical Societies keep the government, the MSP and society in general informed so that we understand that vaccinating is not exclusive to the child population. That adults also have to be vaccinated. And that the country is up to date with advances in medicine, the new vaccines and the prevention of diseases.
REFERENCIA: ACIP Endorses 20-valent Pneumococcal Vaccine for Kids. MedPage Today. By: Ingrid Hein, Staff Writer, June 23, 2023.
2023-06-28 03:00:00
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