Ji'nan children vaccinated measles free of charge, experts say there is no need to worry about safety.
recently, the public health ministry's emergency vaccination of 100 million children has caused suspicion in the public, and a rumor is four. An article entitled "Dr. Peking University questioned the vaccine for measles" has also caused considerable waves on the Internet. The article said that the vaccination is not necessary, and there may be adverse reactions.
yesterday, the Ministry of Health issued a rumor that the measles vaccine is not a chronic poison, and its quality is guaranteed. But many netizens still claim that they prefer to believe it or not.
reporters learned that parents in Ji'nan have been notified recently to vaccinated their children with measles vaccine. Whether the vaccine is to be fought or not has become the most difficult problem for mothers now.
the Ministry of Health says the vaccine has been used for 44 years
according to the Ministry of health. In from September 11th to 20th this year, nearly 100 million children in the country will be enhanced to enforce the measles vaccine.
reporters learned from some mothers' remarks on the Internet that some people received a text message in the afternoon of September 5th. Message content said, "urgent appeal to parents to carefully consider the immediate 100 million children's extra vaccine injection requirements, this batch of United States products are probably chronic poison."
then, a number of forums on the Internet began to talk about the message. Some of the posts did not believe the statement, and some of the posts were also worried. Meanwhile, a person claiming to be a doctor of Peking University sent a question on his blog to question the measles intensified vaccine, saying that Shanghai had adverse reactions. More panic on the parents.
to this, the Ministry of Health yesterday urgently said that the production enterprises of the measles vaccine were mainly enterprises in Shanghai, Wuhan, Lanzhou and Beijing, and did not use imported vaccines.
Zhao Kai, the academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and the director of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Planning of the Ministry of health, said that the measles vaccine is an old vaccine and has been used since 1966. It has been used for 44 years now, and the quality of the vaccine is guaranteed.
Shandong measles is still in the high epidemic period
it is known that measles is an acute respiratory infection caused by measles virus and is highly contagious. Before the vaccine was used, almost everyone had measles after birth, which seriously endangered children's health.
Bao Wenhui, director of the Shandong Provincial Department of health, said that Shandong has been one of the provinces with better control of measles throughout the country for many years. But since 2005, the incidence of measles in Shandong, as well as the national epidemic, has also increased obviously. In 2009, the incidence of measles in Shandong province reached 23.4/100 million, and 2199 cases appeared.
compared with the same period last year, the incidence of measles increased this year, ranking second in the number of infectious diseases, second only to AIDS. Therefore, measles in Shandong is still in a high epidemic period.
according to the statistics of the Provincial Department of health, 1703 measles cases have been found in Shandong province from 2 to June this year.
children from Ji'nan were vaccinated on Saturday free />
yesterday, the reporter learned from the CDC of the city that from September 11th to 20, 8 months to 14 year old children in Ji'nan will be vaccinated against measles free of charge. It is estimated that more than 1 million 200 thousand children will be immunized with measles and polio vaccine in Ji'nan.
yesterday, the reporter on Sina micro-blog saw, some parents in Ji'nan, a few parents have just been inoculated, not one or two months time, this school has been told to be inoculated, in the end is because before the vaccination has no effect or what?
yesterday morning, China CDC conducted an online interview on the issue of measles vaccine immunization. Our reporter asked Liang Xiaofeng, director of the center for immunization planning of China's CDC, the issue of repeated vaccination. "Strengthening vaccination is not the meaning of ineffective vaccination in the past, but is taken into account that some children are immune to individual differences." Liang Xiaofeng's online answer said that the main purpose of strengthening immunization is to provide a replanting opportunity for children who have not been vaccinated previously, or for unsuccessful children, such as individual differences, to provide effective immunity to children; on the other hand, strengthening immunity can rapidly increase the population. Immunity, forming immune barrier, blocking measles virus transmission.
experts say there is no need to worry about the safety of the vaccine