Until next January, chickenpox and mumps … "Vaccination must be in a hurry"

By Jae-hee Lim Jae-hee Jae, head of the Division of Disease Control, called for cooperation in immunization and infectious disease prevention, in anticipation of an increase in the number of cases of chickenpox and diarrhea. Mumps from October to January of the following year.

Mumps and swollen ganglia (swollen glands) swollen from the onset of fever to the entire body and pain accompanied by pain for about a week are caused by droplets (droplets), rhinoceroses, and other nasal secretions. It is an infection that spreads through secretion. In particular, mumps infections account for up to 20% of asymptomatic infections.

The incidence rate is high among young children and young children in primary school and the period of increase extends from April to June each year and from April to June. October to January of next year.

However, vaccination can be prevented in advance if vaccination is completed on time, such as varicella and MMR (measles / mumps / rubella) vaccines and MMR vaccine at 4 to 6 years of age between 12 and 15 months of age . Vaccination is important because it can block complications even if it is infected.

National vaccination is free for all children under the age of 12, wherever they are, in public health centers and accredited medical facilities.

If you are unsure whether you have been vaccinated, you can view your immunization record on the Immunization Wizard home page (nip.cdc.go.kr) or in the Immunization Wizard. ;application.

If you have any suspicious symptoms, you should immediately consult a doctor at your nearest medical facility and avoid contact with other people. Until ticks remain in chicken pox, mumps last up to 5 days after the onset of symptoms.

Medical facilities should check the immunization status of children under 12 years of age and recommend vaccinating them if they have been inoculated or missed.

When a group of patients presents themselves at a nursing home or school, they should immediately inform the local public health center. Within 3 weeks, the patient must report at least 5% of the clbad in a clbad (when there are two or more in less than 20 clbades).

Park Hye-kyung, director of the Division of Infectious Disease Surveillance at the headquarters of the fight against the disease, said: "Even if only one person is infected with the disease, it can spread as a group." To prevent the spread of infectious diseases, I asked.

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