A vaccine against H1N1 apply in Tamaulipas
A woman seven months pregnant was the first to receive the dose
Roberto Aguilar / Correspondent
El Universal
Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas Friday November 27, 2009
19:17
With seven months pregnant, Ms. Sheyla Hernandez Mier was the first person who received the vaccine against influenza A H1N1 in Tamaulipas, which in a first batch reached 12 thousand 800 doses.
After her vaccines were applied to medical personnel in the area of General Hospital intensive care "Norberto Trevi?o" in this capital.
The director of Prevention and Health Protection, Luis Fernando Garza Frausto, said that the doses already distributed in all the medical areas of the state and apply to more than three thousand 500 doctors that are located in the areas of emergency and intensive care, and women who are in their third trimester of pregnancy.
"With this first batch of vaccine will benefit more than three thousand 500 health workers and an average of nine thousand 200 women who are in the third trimester of pregnancy, and it is expected that the first day of December, count with another percentage to be applied to children aged 6 to 23 months of age and considered high-risk population, "said Garza.
To date amount to two thousand 200 patients with the disease in Tamaulipas and 17 people have died.
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