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Government follows DGS recommendation: Vaccination is really resulting and the next campaign will cover 76,000 babies. Vaccination may come to protect 14,000 babies from the most common cause of breathing disease in babies up to one year.
The next vaccination campaign against the Respiratory Sincient Virus (VSR)scheduled for the fall of 2025-2026, will cover babies up to 10 months of age, confirms to the Secretary of State for Health, Ana Povo.
After recommendation of the General Health Directorate (DGS), the widening includes all children born between June 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026, covering around 76 thousand babies. Vaccination can come to protect 14 thousand babiessays Ana people.
“With this measure, we intend to protect [mais] About 14,000 babies, because we believe that, in doing so, we will reduce individual susceptibility and disease load, increasing the positive impact on the use of services that occurred at the previous time, not only with the decrease in hospitalizations, but also with the reduction in the number of hospital emergencies in children under one year, ”he said.
In the last campaign, vaccination was only for babies until eight months. Vaccination will continue to be administered between October and March, when the virus circulates with greater intensity.
Vaccination is resulting in
VSR is the leading cause of respiratory infections in children under one year, and may require hospitalization, including intensive care.
According to DGS data, A: a 85% reduction In baby hospitalizations up to three months and 40% in babies between three and six months. The strategy also maintains vaccination for children over a year old who integrate risk groups.
