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July 9, 2018, 18:50 Asunción, Jul 9 (PL) Sixteen cases of deaths due to respiratory diseases, mainly due to influenza type B, have been recorded up to the date of death. now this year in Paraguay, the Minister of Health, Carlos Morínigo, informed today.
This also affects the fact that many people are not properly sheltered on low temperature days.
According to official data, the 16 deaths were recorded by viruses that cause different respiratory diseases.
"We are at a time when this condition has its epidemiological curve in the context expected for this time of year," he said.
For this reason, Morinigo recalled that the doses do not have a ten-day coverage of demand.
In particular, children and the elderly, who are at risk, should be vaccinated, said the minister.
Sonia Arza, program director, said that although there is a call to vaccinate for the whole population, there is a priority sector: people over 60, children under of 3 years, pregnant women and people with underlying diseases. hypertension, type 2 diabetes, kidney failure, among others.
Pregnant women can be vaccinated independently of the gestational stage. In the case of allergic people, he pointed out that only those who have reactions against egg consumption are the ones who should avoid it.
"The process of inactivation of the virus for the vaccine is carried out on chicken embryos, that is why it is allergic to eggs, it does not have to receive this dose. "
However, he pointed out that in the last 13 years there was no record of this type of inconvenience.
" Many people who do not want to be vaccinated allergy to this protein, but when asked if they consume a food made from the egg and do not show any problems, they are vaccinated, "he argued.
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