With the arrival of cold days and the foreseeable seasonal increase in influenza virus, from the municipality the neighbors are urged to vaccinate against the flu, especially people under 2 years, pregnant women, older adults and those with chronic diseases, with the aim of reducing serious complications, hospitalizations and deaths related to this disease.
Antigripal vaccines are available in the CAPS and in the vaccination of the Mercedes Serrano Polyclinic of Lomas de Tafí and are free for risk groups. The flu vaccine is indicated for various priority groups: health personnel, 65 -year -old and older people, pregnant women and puerperas, girls and boys from 6 to 24 months, and people aged 2 to 64 With conditions such as Obesity, diabetes, respiratory and cardiac diseases, immunodeficiencies, oncohematological patientstransplanted or with chronic renal failure in dialysis.
In addition, the importance of protecting infants against the Respiratory syncotational virus (VSR), the main cause of acute respiratory infections in childhood. As part of the National Vaccination Calendar, a dose of this vaccine between 32 and 36 gestation weeks will be applied to pregnant women with the objective of protecting newborn bronchiolitis during their first six months of life.
