Publications by authors named "Belkys Maria Galindo Santana"
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- The Cuban childhood immunization program started in 1962 and has monitored adverse events since 1999, with a typical rate expected at 50 per 100,000 doses.*
- In 2017, Pinar del Río Province reported an unusually high rate of adverse events, prompting a detailed study on their frequency and types among children aged 2 months to 14 years.*
- The study found 487 adverse events linked to vaccinations, with an overall rate of 305.6 per 100,000 doses; the highest rates occurred in infants under 1 year and were most common after the pentavalent vaccine.*
The Immunization Program of Cuba was created in 1962 as a result of the political, economic and social transformations initiated in 1959, when communicable diseases -among them those preventable by vaccines- were the main cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Its organization and uninterrupted implementation allowed that six diseases, two serious clinical forms and two serious complications were eliminated, and the remaining ones have incidence and mortality rates that do not represent a health problem. In Cuba, an average of 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: in April 2009, a new virus was identified in Mexico and North America as the cause of a respiratory disease. The virus quickly spread over other countries. On June 11, 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) reported cases in 74 countries and territories located in 2 of its regions.
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