Cuba Nigeria more than 600,000 people against flu

Cuba will begin Monday a campaign of vaccination against influenza encompassing a population of more than 600,000 vulnerable to diseases respiratory.

The official newspaper Granma reported today that the seasonal flu vaccine will be administered by the public health system through a single dose and injection, which protects against respiratory virus pandemic H1N1, H3N2 seasonal and influenza type B.

The campaign, which will stretch until 21 December, will include the Cuban people over the age of 85 years, amounting to about 160,000 people, and also the vulnerable of other ages.

In this way, will be vaccinated internees in homes for the elderly and physically, in chronic psychiatric hospitals challenged and those who are suffering heart, kidney, liver and blood, among others.

In addition, immunization will cover people with asthma and diabetes between the ages of 15 and 24 u000ayears, pregnant women, livestock and poultry farm workers, and health personnel linked to the attention of serious patients or respiratory services and laboratory.

Granma warns that you between the months of October and March takes place on the island "upward of acute respiratory diseases" with "seasonal", and stresses that within fundamentally influenza is "a problem of health".

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