The Health Center of the capital announced today that within the organizational unit of the Chosen Doctor for Children, on the weekend of February 18 and 19, 2023, in the premises of the "Stara Varoš" Health Center, an extraordinary vaccination with the MMR vaccine will be carried out.
"Parents and guardians whose children are not immunized can come in between 13 a.m. and XNUMX p.m. without prior appointment. Emergency vaccination also includes vaccination according to the regular vaccination calendar, as well as recommended vaccines (HPV)," the announcement states.
The announcement states that for the purpose of objectively informing the public and raising awareness about the importance of the MMR vaccine and the risk of contracting measles (measles), mandatory vaccination with this vaccine is planned.
"Measles is an acute, infectious, viral disease caused by the measles virus. People who have not had measles or who have not been vaccinated against measles are at risk of infection. Measles is mainly considered a childhood disease, but it can occur at any stage of life. age, in unvaccinated and susceptible persons. The smallpox virus spreads very easily from infectious to susceptible persons, and most often through the air, through droplets that are created when coughing and sneezing, or through direct contact with the nasal or pharyngeal secretions of infected persons," they said from Health center of the capital city.
They said that more than a million children in the world die from smallpox every year.
"A new serious health crisis can threaten the lives of children to a greater extent than the corona virus. Given the statistics on the low coverage of the MMR vaccine in Montenegro and the appearance of the first cases of measles in the region, there is a need for urgent and immediate mobilization of all social factors, as would avoid difficult scenarios such as an epidemic can bring," reads the announcement of the Capital City Health Center.
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