Concern over new cases of measles: Chubut strengthens vaccination — OPI Santa Cruz

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(OPI Chubut) – After the confirmation of two new cases of measles in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), the Government of Chubut, through the Provincial Health Secretariat, urged families to verify and complete vaccination schemes in children aged 12 months and 5 years. Vaccines are available in all vaccinations in the province and will be applied free of charge according to the National Vaccination Calendar. The start of the school cyc…

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The Province of Buenos Aires will give a "zero" dose for minors in close contact with the disease, who do not yet have the first dose of the official calendar. In the official vaccination schedule, there is the triple viral one, which combats this pathology. This vaccine is given at 12 months of life and at 5 years. Measles is a highly contagious disease from person to person in closed places. So far 4 affected by the disease was registered, the…

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In view of the emergence of cases of Measles in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires Health Portfolio began an awareness-raising and vaccination campaign with an extra dose of the vaccine for people who had contact with the 4 cases confirmed in CABA. In addition, they recall the importance of complying with all the free and compulsory vaccines stipulated in the National Vaccination Calendar. It should be clarified that no confir…