tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
BUENOS AIRES-Mendoza was one of the worst performing provinces were in the coverage of influenza vaccination campaign in 2011. While the national average was 85%, our province immunized 76% of the population at risk. In the country there were seven killed by H1N1 and seven were from Mendoza.
As part of a media visit to the interior of the future plant for influenza vaccine production consortium of laboratories Sinergium Biotech (see aside), the pediatric infectious Alejandra Gaiano, coordinator of the National Programme for Control of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, gave know the numbers you have thrown the 2011 vaccination campaign, which shows the poor performance of Mendoza.
"You have to put the numbers in context. While last year we got to the vaccination of 93.4% of the population at risk, a world record that has even led to other countries ask us how we did it is also true that before the 2009 pandemic, the world and in Argentina the average vaccination was 30%.
This year the coverage was 85%, so even though 2010 is down about we call it a success, "said the expert.
Going to the numbers of Mendoza, the province vaccinated 76% of the population at risk, having the worst performance in the group of pregnant women. While the national average was 83%, with peaks of 100% in Chaco, Formosa and Misiones, Mendoza was the last place with 67% of pregnant women immunized against influenza A.
http://www.diariouno.com.ar/edimpresa/2011/08/28/nota280591.html
As part of a media visit to the interior of the future plant for influenza vaccine production consortium of laboratories Sinergium Biotech (see aside), the pediatric infectious Alejandra Gaiano, coordinator of the National Programme for Control of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, gave know the numbers you have thrown the 2011 vaccination campaign, which shows the poor performance of Mendoza.
"You have to put the numbers in context. While last year we got to the vaccination of 93.4% of the population at risk, a world record that has even led to other countries ask us how we did it is also true that before the 2009 pandemic, the world and in Argentina the average vaccination was 30%.
This year the coverage was 85%, so even though 2010 is down about we call it a success, "said the expert.
Going to the numbers of Mendoza, the province vaccinated 76% of the population at risk, having the worst performance in the group of pregnant women. While the national average was 83%, with peaks of 100% in Chaco, Formosa and Misiones, Mendoza was the last place with 67% of pregnant women immunized against influenza A.
http://www.diariouno.com.ar/edimpresa/2011/08/28/nota280591.html