The Secretariat of Health of Michoacán continues applying in its units of Health the biological one that it protects against influenza seasonal. This vaccine is indicated for the children of 6 to 23 months of age, the adults majors of 60 years and for those people of other ages with factors of irrigation to develop complications. From the beginning of the campaign of winter vaccination, the past month of October, the Secretariat of Health has applied 110.630 doses.
In the group of the people in risk it is included to the children of 3 to 9 years of age that have asthma and other chronic pulmonary diseases or of the heart, HIV, anemias in the blood of falciforme type or African cells, chronic renal problems, diabetes mellitus or arthritis. Also group of high risk considers itself, and therefore they must be vaccinated, to those people of 50 to 59 years with diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular and renal diseases (except arterial hypertension), asthma and pulmonary disease obstructiva chronicle and to the people with low defenses to have transplanted cancer, HIV or being.
Also, the seasonal vaccination against influenza to the pregnant women (as of the second semester), to the smaller baby sitters of 5 years and to the majors of 65 years is recommended; as well as to the health personnel. All the people will receive dose of biological, except for children of 6 to 35 months that receives the vaccine for the first time, who will receive two doses, with a minimum interval of a month between the first dose and second.
The people including in these groups of population and that has not received still their dose of seasonal vaccine against influenza, can go to the centers of health of the SSM for their application.
Vaccination against influenza A (H1N1) to embarrassed personnel of health and
Additionally, the Secretariat of Health is applying the vaccine against the new virus of Influenza A (H1N1) to its personnel of health, especially to that they are in direct bonding with the patients of respiratory diseases, and to the women in the third trimester of pregnancy. In the next weeks the new grant of this biological one will be received, reason why it will be abrirá to other groups of risk, as they are the women in second trimester of pregnancy and people with pulmonary diseases, of heart, inmunodeprimidos and people with morbid obesity.
Although no longer it is necessary to take sample and to analyze it to all the suspicious cases of influenza, the Secretariat of Health maintains the monitoring sentry to know which is the tendency in the presence of this virus between the michoacana population. In the last weeks one has become stabilized and even reduced the number of new cases registered every day. At the moment, the number of cases confirmed from the beginning of the epidemic is of 2.814, between which 19 deaths are included. The last death, reported yesterday, corresponds to a woman of 34 years who passed away in the General Hospital “Dr. Miguel Whistles”