Costa Rica suspends purchase of vaccines against influenza A (H1N1)

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San Jose, 17 sea (PL) The Department of Health of Costa Rica suspended the buy of vaccines against the influenza A (H1N1), to wait for a new injectable medicine.

" We are not going to buy new doses of vaccine against the flu A (H1N1), we would hope in October to rely on with a monovalente not only to fight her A (H1N1), but other types more of influenza ", said the minister of the branch, Maria Luisa ?vila. In accordance with the official, the sanitary authorities will have to value the new treatment before allowing his entry to the country. It is hoped that the vaccine should allow to fight also, the seasonal influenza and other one of the type A, told ?vila. On this matter, he said that the monovalente not only will be given by the State across the Costa Rican Box of Social Insurance, but it will be able to be bought in the pharmacies. The flu A (H1N1), it has caused the death of 56 persons in the country, which has applied already 110 thousand doses of vaccines to groups of population of high risk with illnesses as diabetes, hypertension, morbid obeseness, I embarrass, between others.

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Re: Costa Rica suspends purchase of vaccines against influenza A (H1N1)

The government of Costa Rica will not import new doses of the vaccine against the influenza H1N1 because the totality of the population was already covered in risk, announced this Tuesday the minister of Health, Maria Luisa Avila.
The official pointed out that the first import, realized in last January and of 200.000 doses, allowed to immunize the persons with chronic illnesses that cover major risk of dying because of complications provoked by the porcine influenza.
' From now on we will buy the seasonal vaccine that has a minor cost and that surely is going to contain the immunization against the H1N1 ', told Avila.
The minister made sure that Costa Rica ' did not pay caprices ' for the first lot of vaccines against the flu H1N1, because ' they were bought across the joint fund of the WHO '.
In last February, the authorities of the Costa Rican Box of the Social Insurance (CCSS) admitted to have difficulties to apply the vaccine in his centers of medical attention, because the patients were refusing to receive it.
The rejection, according to the medical manager of the CCSS, Rosa Climent, is influenced by publications in Internet that they alert on effective negative of vaccine assumptions.

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