Vaccination against dengue begins in Buenos Aires region

With the arrival of the hot season comes the proliferation of the female mosquito Aedes aegypti, and the diseases it spreads, which is why many areas made purchases to vaccinate their residents against dengue.

Buenos Aires bought 500,000 doses which it distributes first throughout the metropolitan area because it is an endemic area of ​​the disease. Therefore, the movements to receive the free dose will gradually reach the residents of Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, Florencio Varela, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora and Quilmes.

According to their official networks, the first priority is to vaccinate people living in these municipalities, which are infected with dengue in the 2023-2024 season and are between 15 and 59 years old. Those who meet these points will get leg through your email to attend vaccination. People who did not receive this email, but who meet the aforementioned requirements, must register on the Mi Salud Digital Buenos Aires website (https://www.ms.gba.gov.ar/sitios/ misalud/) to get the job.

The vaccines will be applied starting in the second half of October, so appointments for the application reach the message boxes a few days before. If this does not happen, the person must enter My Buenos Aires Digital Health and provide proof that they have had dengue.

Regarding where the vaccines will be, the province said that the facilities planned for this purpose have already been equipped and prepared for this campaign. For the most part, Vaccination will be done in hospitals, both regional and municipal.. The appointment will be given according to the hospital closest to the person receiving the vaccine.

The province of Buenos Aires bought 500,000 Qdenga vaccines, developed by the Japanese laboratory Takeda and approved by ANMAT in April 2023, to prevent serious cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The first batch of vaccines was intended for people who already had dengue, who are between 15 and 60 years old and who live in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires (AMBA), which was the area that was most affected last season.

The vaccine It will not be given to people over 60 because it has not yet been approved by the laboratory which makes it for this age range. They also explained that it will be given in two doses: between October and November the first dose will be applied and the second three months later: between February and March.

Vaccination can also be accessed from the private sector, with pre-paid or social work. For this, you must provide a medical prescription, not be pregnant or breastfeeding, and you belong to the age group for which the vaccine is approved, that is, 4 years and older.

The same Minister of Health in Buenos Aires, Nicolás Kreplak, explained the indications and contraindications of the vaccine: “Even under 60 years of age there are two doses, the first on day 1 and after three months the second dose is given. only contraindications They have to do with being a weak virus vaccine for people who are pregnant, lactating or immune The rest is not prohibited.”

From the province and from the municipalities they pointed out that home care activities must accompany the vaccination campaign to prevent dengue, which is a mosquito that grows in clean and dead waters. That’s why washing, disposing of, covering and rotating elements that collect water is the community key to preventing it.

In terms of local actions, through awareness-raising work, the city of Almirante Brown visited 3,600 homes and disposed of 6,000 units of waste metal that could have been water containers. In Florencio Varela, days of infrastructural activities have been planned for different parts of the area whose aim is to value public space and reduce areas on public roads that may contain water to combat re- representation of dengue.