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Monte Alto (SP) is the city of the Ribeirão Preto region with the highest number of H1N1 cases in 2018, compared to the number of inhabitants. Until now, there are nine reports of the disease, three in children aged 7 to 9 years. The municipality has also not achieved the goal of the Ministry of Health for the vaccination of priority groups.
According to a survey by EPTV, a subsidiary of Rede Globo, 16 of 56 confirmed patients with the disease in the region died, and seven deaths occurred in Ribeirão Preto (SP).
Data from the Ministry of Health indicate that almost all municipalities in the region have low immunization coverage and that they still lack more than 20% of the target population to be vaccinated. The goal is to vaccinate 90% of these people.
The flu vaccination campaign has been extended and, according to the Ministry of Health, has no end date. Since June 25, municipalities that still have vaccines have extended vaccination to children aged 5 to 9 and adults aged 50 to 59 years.
19659008] The nurse of the epidemiological surveillance of Monte Alto and responsible for the vaccination campaign in the city, Elaine Lanfredi Lopes, says that the main groups to be vaccinated are pregnant women and children from 6 months to 5 years.
"This group is a priority group and vulnerable to mortality and respiratory complications of H1N1, H3N2, influenza B, and influenza A. There is a lot of stigma that the vaccine can cause. influenza or worsening the condition. "
According to Elaine, the vaccine can be carried forward only to those who are very sick or who have a high fever. "In these cases, we indicate that the person is better to vaccinate, but if the child or the elderly person is only with a cough or a coryza, a mild respiratory state, this does not contraindicate."
The director of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance of Monte Alto, Michele Deolindo Neves, states that people with other diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and respiratory problems are also part of the group priority for vaccination.
"It is important that they are immune because they are more vulnerable to other diseases.The complication in the health of these people may be greater if they have H1N1 , so they must receive the vaccine, he said.
The vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu has been extended in the country (Photo: EPTV Reproduction)
The nursing technique Cláudia Barbosa explains that the vaccine may have some ef secondary fetuses, but are fast pbading symptoms.
"The effects are small.The vaccine is made up of inactivated viruses, a fever in the day or the flu can occur, but it is fast and is not a persistent symptom, something serious or acute. It's very calm, "he says.
The influenza vaccination campaign has been extended and, according to the Ministry of Health, has no end date. The dose is free for children over 6 years and for those aged 50-59 and is applied in health posts.
H1N1, a subtype of the virus that causes influenza, accounted for 66% of influenza deaths this year in Brazil, according to data from the Ministry of Health, the subtype also caused 59.7 % of cases. The Ministry of Health reports that the virus is circulating more in Brazil this year and that most deaths and complications occur in people with diseases that increase the risk of complications. Many were heart patients with diabetes or had previous respiratory problems.
The influenza mortality rate in Brazil is 0.29% per 100 000 population.
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