• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 03 / 04 / 2012

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For weeks that is developing in the country 51 of vaccination campaign against polio. In the province of Guantanamo will be immunized 29 000 950 children in the two stages that make up the process.

Elena Sanchez Garcia, head of the Vaccination Program in the territory, told AIN that the health crusade will run in two phases, the first of which will last until March 9, and the second from 20 to 27 April.

He explained that now the two drops of medicine receive it orally 858 22 000 infants ranging from 30 days old to two years, 11 months and 29 days.

In the second stage (20 to 27 April) will reactivate the antidote to the referred children and apply to the seven thousand 92 minors at Guantanamo have ages from nine years to nine years, 11 months and 29 days.

The antidote is contraindicated for infants with high fever, vomiting or diarrhea, and those immunocompromised or allergic to any component of the vaccine, which disables the action of water, which should not be ingested 30 minutes before or after receiving the drug .

In 1962, polio was the first crusade in Cuba, and has since been applied more than 80 million doses against this disease.

Before 1959, the country had only eliminated yellow fever vaccine (1908) and smallpox (1923).

After the triumph of the Revolution, disappeared diphtheria, measles, rubella, pertussis, neonatal tetanus, congenital rubella syndrome and meningoencephalitis postparotiditis.

They also failed to be health problems tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, mumps, and other pathologies.

Poliomyelitis is an acute infectious disease caused by three types of gastrointestinal viruses that attack the nervous system and destroy the cells that control muscles, which fail to fulfill their duties.

In severe cases, affects the brain and respiratory system, and committed life.