Who must be vaccinated against the Flu To in Spain?

For several months, this health blog has come publishing about the last innovations on the Flu TO H1N1. For example, in previous articles one reported about the beginning of the vaccination against the illness in Spain. Next, this blog will continue with this topic and will refer to the high-risk groups who must be vaccinated.

Since one has already reported, the vaccination campaign against the Flu To in Spain will begin next Monday, the 16th of November, as was informed after concluded the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National System of Health (SNS). The fact is that it was during this meeting, in which there took part the minister of Health, Trinidad Jiménez, who noticed this date.

In the frame of this meeting there were announced, also, the high-risk groups to whom they are recommended to be vaccinated from November, informed the web site of the Ministry of Health and Social policy, that he added that the immunization, although it is important, is not obligatory.

- Sanitary workpeople and parasanitarios so much of primary health care as hospitable, public and private, as well as the personnel of residences of the third age and centers of attention to chronic patients.
- Workpeople of essential public services as forces and safety bodies of the State, firemen and services of civil protection. Also there integrate this group the persons who are employed at the services of sanitary emergencies and workpeople of penitentiary institutions and of centers of attention to the refugee and immigrants.

- Adults and major babies of 6 months with a high risk of complications derived from the infection for the pandemic virus for suffering some of the following pathologies: chronic cardiovascular diseases (excluding the hypertension); chronic respiratory illnesses; diabetes type I and type II with pharmacological treatment; moderate or serious renal insufficiency; hemoglobinopatías and moderate or serious anemias; asplenia; advanced chronic hepatic illness; illnesses neuromusculares serious; patients with immunity suppression (included the caused one by infection by VIH or by medicines or in the transplants recipients); morbid obesity (index of corporal mass equal or superior to 40); and children and adolescents, 18-year-old minors, who receive treatment prolonged with acid acetilsalicílico, for the possibility of developing a Reye syndrome.

- Pregnant women.

It is important to add that in case of the adults between 18 and 60 years, which the high-risk groups integrate, one will apply only one dose of the vaccine to him, he informed the web.

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