Updated Influenza Vaccine in Mexico: Important Information and Priority Groups

For the first time in Mexico, the health sector applies an updated influenza vaccine.

“The vaccine that was applied last year is no longer going to help you this season because the virus changes.” Julissa Rodríguez | Medical Manager for influenza vaccine at Sanofi

This year a quadrivalent vaccine is applied.

“There are four strains of the virus circulating, so the fact of having a vaccine that covers all these strains and having better protection, that is quite good because, at the beginning of the season, a type of virus begins, at the end of the season the virus changes. ”. Julissa Rodríguez | Medical Manager for influenza vaccine at Sanofi

As of October 19, almost 70% of the circulation is the AH1N1 strain, just over 20% is the B strain, and 10% is the A Non-Subtypeable strain.

It is very important to get vaccinated because influenza predominates in winter.

“Definitely, influenza has always dominated, nothing more than obviously in this period of pandemic that we suffered, Covid predominated, but influenza was still present especially in the unvaccinated population. “I have been seeing many children affected with influenza precisely with the history of not having been previously vaccinated.” Gerardo López Pérez | Pediatric infectious disease specialist

The objective is to avoid serious cases, hence the call from health authorities to the population to go to health centers for the vaccine.

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The priority groups for this immunization are children, older adults, pregnant women, people with comorbidities and health personnel.

“A person who has this type of problem can become hospitalized and even die, the main complication of influenza is pneumonia and that is truly serious.” Gerardo López Pérez | Pediatric infectious disease specialist

The peak of influenza cases is expected between December and January.

2023-10-27 06:40:57
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