Brazil has vaccination coverage of less than 70%; the goal is to reach 95% of children up to 5 years of age
or minister of health, Marcelo Queirogareleased a statement on national television this Sunday, 6, to encourage the vaccination Against the polio. He admitted that this is an “issue that concerns us all” and that vaccination coverage is below this year’s target, less than 70% of the target audience, made up of children up to 5 years old. The situation has raised fears of a return of cases of the disease to the country amid weakening adherence to the vaccine.
In October the director of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa Etienne, said Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Peru are at “very high risk” of transmission polio, in addition to the United States, which this year registered at least one case.
Queiroga admitted that Brazil runs the risk of “missing this important milestone”, which is the eradication of the disease. He also pointed out that last week the ministry launched a national plan to fight polio, but did not explain why the action was only launched in November. “The goal is to immunize 95% of children under 5,” he said.
“I appeal to parents, grandparents and guardians: vaccinate your children against polio. We cannot deny this right to the future of our Brazil. We cannot accept that someone, especially our children, get sick and die from diseases for which they exist. already the vaccine for so long, “he said. Although the national campaign is over, the vaccine is still available at vaccination posts.
The virus can attack the nervous system and cause irreversible paralysis – so much so that the popular name is infantile paralysis – of the limbs and legs, as well as of the respiratory muscles, leading to death. THE polio has no cure, only prevention, which is done with the vaccine.
Polio, highly contagious, mainly affects children under the age of 5 who live in conditions of high social vulnerability, in places where there is no adequate water and sewage treatment. as the Estadio shown, Municipalities in several Brazilian states have adopted different strategies to expand vaccination coveragefrom the search for unvaccinated people via the WhatsApp application, to the distribution of circus tickets even to bicycle lotteries.
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Source: Terra
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