ANTI-POLIO VACCINATION

As part of efforts to prevent vaccine preventable, diseases and maintain polio eradication, three rounds of free polio vaccination inhas been already conducted this year with support from UNICEF and WHO»

Since this Monday, March 28th, Cuban children are receiving the second dose of the vaccination against poliomyelitis, as part of the national campaign to eradicate this disease, which is carried out in the country since 1962. According to official figures, the oral drug is now being given to almost half a million children, of which 372 000 856 are under »

More than 3530 children born from January to September 2015 will be vaccinated as of this Monday in Sancti Spiritus. They will be receiving an injection of the inactivated vaccine against all viruses that cause poliomyelitis. Marisney López Pérez, head of the Immunization Program of the Provincial Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology, told the media that this is the first »

An inactivated vaccine (IPV) against all viruses which cause Polio is supplied as of today by injection to Cuban children, as part of the 55th national campaign to eliminate definitively the disease»

The 53rd National Vaccination Campaign against poliomyelitis in Cuba begins its second stage today, with more than 500,000 children to be vaccinated.»

From this Friday until March 13, the first stage of the 53rd Anti-Polio Vaccination Campaign will be held in this Cuban central province, and throughout the island.»

The 52nd Anti-polio Vaccination Campaign was started this Friday in Sancti Spiritus, the first stage of which will be concluded next March 7th.»

Over one million Cuban children will be administered a polio vaccine between March and April to keep them protected against the disease, which could possibly cause permanent disability and death.»