Brazilian authorities warn against low vaccination of children

Brazilian authorities warn against poor vaccination of children

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Life Sciences Technology
El Mercurio

The North of the country is confronted with measles epidemic. The cover of Tres Vrica only reaches 85%.

Vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella, included in the triple virus, decreases in Brazil and in 2017 it covered 85%, while in 2014 it was close to 100%. %, according to data from the Ministry of Health. In fact, in some states, like Par (north), last year, only 68.45% of the coverage was reached. Every year in childhood immunization has alerted Brazil, which is facing a measles epidemic in the north of the country. In Amazonas and Roraima, 660 confirmed cases have already been counted and some 2,700 ms are the subject of an investigation

Why is Brazil less vaccinated? According to Carla Domingues, coordinator of the National Immunization Program, "the population no longer seems to recognize these diseases as an important public health problem" and, therefore, "there is a looseness in the lack of immunization". To this are added the false news on vaccination. The Sarampin epidemic is already a "real risk" in Brazil. Polio "is a theoretical risk, but it exists," warns Domingues.