Campaign to vaccinate against measles and poliomyelitis in August in Campo Grande

The vaccination campaign against measles and poliomyelitis will take place between 6 and 31 August by Sesau (Department of Municipal Health) of Campo Grande. The goal is to vaccinate at least 95% of children in this age group and action was planned in the schedule of the Ministry of Health.

According to the press office of the mayor, the purpose of the campaign is to catch children who have not yet been vaccinated or had satisfactory immunological responses to vaccination, leaving them little to risk of getting sick.

Parents and caregivers should go to UBS and UBSF's primary child care units with children Vaccination against adult measles will not be practiced and D-Day is scheduled for Saturday, August 18, and the units' vaccination rooms will be open from Monday to Friday from 7:15 to 11:00.

Vaccine

VOP (oral vaccine – droplet) will be used against poliomyelitis in children who have already received one or more doses of VIP (inactivated poliomyelitis – injectable vaccine) or OPV, regardless of the interval between the dose of the routine and to administer in the countryside. The VIP will be administered to children who have not yet been vaccinated.

Measles measles will be applied to Triple Viral, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella. For this vaccine, certain specific determinations of the Ministry of Health will be followed:

• Will be vaccinated: children who have not been vaccinated; or who have received the vaccine for more than 30 days;
• Will not be vaccinated: children who have received the triple viral or tetra viral vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella and varicella) for less than 30 days

There are no absolute contraindications for VOP (droplets) and VIP, avoiding vaccination in children with acute infections and with fever above 38ºC; with known hypersensitivity to any of the components of the vaccine (streptomycin or erythromycin); or who have had an abnormal reaction to the vaccine in the past.

In the case of Viral Triple, the administration of this vaccine should be delayed in the following situations: moderate or severe acute febrile illnesses; after use of immunoglobulins, blood and derivatives; children on immunosuppressive or biological therapy; the use of corticosteroids at immunosuppressive doses; in use of antineoplastic chemotherapy should only be vaccinated 3 months after stopping treatment; It is recommended that recipients of bone marrow transplants be vaccinated at intervals of 12 to 24 months after transplantation for the first dose. The vaccine is contraindicated in case of anaphylaxis (severe allergy) at the previous dose of the vaccine; or in children under 5 years of age with severe immunosuppression.

Immunization coverage

Up to June of this year, 6756 children were vaccinated with Triple Viral, reaching a vaccination coverage of 95.14%, while in the VIP, 5403 children received the 3rd dose representing 76.09% of the goal. In 2017, coverage was 96.44% and 83.02%, respectively.

Poliomyelitis

This is an infectious infectious viral infectious disease, characterized by a contagious infectious infectious disease of the child. flaccid paralysis, sudden onset. It usually affects the lower limbs, asymmetrically, having as main features muscle flaccidity, with preserved sensitivity, and arréflexie in the affected segment. Transmission occurs through direct person-to-person contact, by the fecal-oral route (most often), by objects, food and water contaminated with stool from patients or carriers, or by oral-oral by droplets of oropharyngeal secretions. speak, cough or sneeze).

Measles

Measles is an infectious infectious infectious disease, transmissible and extremely contagious, with a high prevalence of infection, being able to evolve with complications and death, especially in malnourished children and less than one year old. Transmission occurs from one person to another, through respiratory secretions, within four to six days before the onset of eruption until four days later. The last case of the disease recorded at Campo Grande was in 2002.

* with information press office