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The Department of Health’s chief independent epidemiologist, Roman Polibin, spoke to RBC about the planned “cleanse” vaccination, warning of the danger of reducing population immunity to whooping cough and polio.
In the context of vaccination against measles, priority will be given to children and adults under 35 years of age who have not had measles or who have had only one vaccination history, as well as to unvaccinated persons, migrants, migrants and people leading a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle.
Polibin noted that every child should receive two measles vaccines according to the national immunization schedule, which will provide lifelong protection against the disease. People with a history of one vaccination are given one vaccine administration, and those who have not been vaccinated before or do not have information about vaccinations may receive two vaccinations.
The priority for vaccination are people under the age of 55 who belong to risk groups and work in conditions conducive to the spread of infection (medical workers, employees of educational, commercial, transport, communal organizations and social).
Polibin noted that the detection of measles cases is not a contraindication to “cleansing” vaccination, and that vaccination of contact persons in measles foci is one of the most important anti-epidemic measures. effective in eliminating epidemic foci.
In Russia, no measles outbreak is expected. Andrey Pozdnyakov, Infectious Diseases Physician, Ph.D., Chief Physician of INVITRO-Siberia LLC’s Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory, shared his predictions.
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