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Editor, Senior Moderator
The general-director of the Health, Francisco George, affirmed, this Tuesday, that there is being investigated an eventual change of the virus of the flu, it underlining that this virus is like ' a chameleon '.
Excepting the efficiency of the vaccine to avoid the complications of the flu, Francisco George explained that ' not always there is the right meeting between the composition of the vaccine and the viruses that are circulating '. ' The vaccine contemplates three viruses (two A and B), but the virus of the flu is like a chameleon. It is always in change ', affirmed the general-director of the Health to the journalists, alongside the ceremony of opening of the European Year of the Active Aging and Dialog Between Generations.
Explained that ' the vaccine is prepared in February in the northern hemisphere to be used starting in October and during these months can be minor changes, what we call the mutations. We are studying this phenomenon '.
This will be able to be one of the motives that led to the increase of the mortality between 13 and 19 of February, in which three thousand deaths were written up in Portugal, according to the Report of Vigilance Epidemiol?gica of the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA). Francisco George advanced that the authorities of health are analysing this phenomenon, pointed out them to me that ' the mortality is a cyclical phenomenon '.
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Excepting the efficiency of the vaccine to avoid the complications of the flu, Francisco George explained that ' not always there is the right meeting between the composition of the vaccine and the viruses that are circulating '. ' The vaccine contemplates three viruses (two A and B), but the virus of the flu is like a chameleon. It is always in change ', affirmed the general-director of the Health to the journalists, alongside the ceremony of opening of the European Year of the Active Aging and Dialog Between Generations.
Explained that ' the vaccine is prepared in February in the northern hemisphere to be used starting in October and during these months can be minor changes, what we call the mutations. We are studying this phenomenon '.
This will be able to be one of the motives that led to the increase of the mortality between 13 and 19 of February, in which three thousand deaths were written up in Portugal, according to the Report of Vigilance Epidemiol?gica of the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA). Francisco George advanced that the authorities of health are analysing this phenomenon, pointed out them to me that ' the mortality is a cyclical phenomenon '.
http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Sociedade/Saude/Interior.aspx?content_id=2332159