Las Tunas, Cuba.- All he children that were benefited in the first phase of the campaign will receive the dose, from one month to 2 years, 11 months and 29 days. At the same time, children of nine years and up to 9 years, 11 months and 29 days will also be reactivated with a dose of the immunogenic.

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Líriam Osorio Corzo, Communication specialist of the Department of Health Promotion in the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, explains to 26Digital that the vaccine will be administered in the family doctor's offices, and insists on the need to wait 30 minutes before and after the immunization to to consume water or food.

Those who have fever, vomiting or diarrhea cannot receive the vaccine nor the inmunodeficient children.
Osorio added that, during this week, educational activities are also scheduled in childcare centers, schools and doctors' offices to spread the importance of the vaccine and teach the families.

The poliomyelitis is a very contagious disease that mainly affects children and can cause paralysis. The 85 million 200 thousand doses of this vaccine applied from 1962 to 2018 have guaranteed the protection of the Cuban population under 71 years of age.

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