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Posted on December 1, 2011
In pharmacies, was intense demand for vaccine. Even in doubt, people wanted to feel safe
ALEX COSTA
Each dose is sold at R $ 50.00 and has a waiting list. Sesa claims that vaccine has an effect only after two months.
Pedra Branca. Although the number of notifications has decreased and no new cases confirmed in White Stone, concern about the outbreak of influenza A (H1N1) has caused many people to be pharmacies in search of vaccines. Yesterday afternoon, about 16 people, including adults and children, paid $ 50.00 to be immunized at a pharmacy in the center of the city, since there are no vaccines in the public. The problem is that the bottles indicate that the validity product is December 2011. "Unfortunately there are people misinformed, saying that the product is expired. But the product can be used until the end of the month. The distributors no greater validity than this," said the pharmacist Celso Teixeira. Celso brought yesterday, 100 doses Fortaleza, all sold the same day. He intended to bring today, another 400 doses to meet your pharmacy and one in Mombasa, but did not reveal the source of the product. "I had to get." The minimum age to receive the dose is six months, and there is no upper age limit. The vaccine is contraindicated only for persons allergic to eggs or those with fever. Professor Maria do Socorro da Silva Cardoso took the two daughters to be vaccinated at the pharmacy. Despite the doubts, preferred to risk in order to feel safer. "We hear a lot that the vaccine is overdue, it's not worth taking. But I deal daily with children and immunized if I'll feel safer," he says. Population divided the streets, people are divided. While many walked carefree and without any protection, others remained with face masks and using alcohol gel consistently. In addition to the pharmacies that you reset your stocks, these two products can be purchased freely in public. The head of the Secretariat of Health of White Stone, Tanya Parente, reiterated that there is no vaccine for swine flu in the public nationwide. And even if there were, is not effective in case of outbreak. "The guidance issued by the Department of Health (SESA) is that no good vaccine. If you were to immunize neighboring counties, where there is no outbreak, all right, but Pedra Branca, which must be done are measures to contain the disease : notify suspected cases and treat all with Tamiflu, which is being done. Because the vaccine does not begin to take effect two months after application. " About the controversial sale of the vaccine, the secretary said he had no expertise to evaluate the doses would be worth to the beginning or end of December. "The virus has a mutation too fast. The vaccine made in 2010, these are sold now, is the virus that circulated in 2010. There is no guarantee that vaccine will act the same way and with the same efficiency," he said. Measures to boost the containment, the Department of Health decentralized the notifications that can be made either in the Municipal Hospital and Health Program (PSF). Moreover, the PSFs of headquarters and districts are in stock of Tamiflu. At the hospital, the movement was peaceful. Still, the team has been strengthened. The Ambulance Service Emergency Medical Care (SEMC) continues through Sunday in the case of a severe case needs to be transferred to Fortaleza
Portuguese-English translation
Posted on December 1, 2011
In pharmacies, was intense demand for vaccine. Even in doubt, people wanted to feel safe
ALEX COSTA
Each dose is sold at R $ 50.00 and has a waiting list. Sesa claims that vaccine has an effect only after two months.
Pedra Branca. Although the number of notifications has decreased and no new cases confirmed in White Stone, concern about the outbreak of influenza A (H1N1) has caused many people to be pharmacies in search of vaccines. Yesterday afternoon, about 16 people, including adults and children, paid $ 50.00 to be immunized at a pharmacy in the center of the city, since there are no vaccines in the public. The problem is that the bottles indicate that the validity product is December 2011. "Unfortunately there are people misinformed, saying that the product is expired. But the product can be used until the end of the month. The distributors no greater validity than this," said the pharmacist Celso Teixeira. Celso brought yesterday, 100 doses Fortaleza, all sold the same day. He intended to bring today, another 400 doses to meet your pharmacy and one in Mombasa, but did not reveal the source of the product. "I had to get." The minimum age to receive the dose is six months, and there is no upper age limit. The vaccine is contraindicated only for persons allergic to eggs or those with fever. Professor Maria do Socorro da Silva Cardoso took the two daughters to be vaccinated at the pharmacy. Despite the doubts, preferred to risk in order to feel safer. "We hear a lot that the vaccine is overdue, it's not worth taking. But I deal daily with children and immunized if I'll feel safer," he says. Population divided the streets, people are divided. While many walked carefree and without any protection, others remained with face masks and using alcohol gel consistently. In addition to the pharmacies that you reset your stocks, these two products can be purchased freely in public. The head of the Secretariat of Health of White Stone, Tanya Parente, reiterated that there is no vaccine for swine flu in the public nationwide. And even if there were, is not effective in case of outbreak. "The guidance issued by the Department of Health (SESA) is that no good vaccine. If you were to immunize neighboring counties, where there is no outbreak, all right, but Pedra Branca, which must be done are measures to contain the disease : notify suspected cases and treat all with Tamiflu, which is being done. Because the vaccine does not begin to take effect two months after application. " About the controversial sale of the vaccine, the secretary said he had no expertise to evaluate the doses would be worth to the beginning or end of December. "The virus has a mutation too fast. The vaccine made in 2010, these are sold now, is the virus that circulated in 2010. There is no guarantee that vaccine will act the same way and with the same efficiency," he said. Measures to boost the containment, the Department of Health decentralized the notifications that can be made either in the Municipal Hospital and Health Program (PSF). Moreover, the PSFs of headquarters and districts are in stock of Tamiflu. At the hospital, the movement was peaceful. Still, the team has been strengthened. The Ambulance Service Emergency Medical Care (SEMC) continues through Sunday in the case of a severe case needs to be transferred to Fortaleza