This year, 24 cases of measles were detected in Azerbaijan.
Publika.az Gulafat Azadaliyeva, head of the immunoprophylaxis department of the Republican Hygiene and Epidemiology Center of the Ministry of Health, said this in his statement to the report.
According to him, these facts are related to the issue of migration: “Persons returning from foreign countries can infect several people. Because this is a type of disease with a high infectious capacity that passes through air droplets.
The official of the center said that 18 of those people fell to Baku: “As for the age group of those infected with the disease, 1 person is 0-1 years old, 18 people are 1-18 years old, and 5 people are over 18 years old. In general, 84% of infected people were not vaccinated against the disease.
G.Azadaliyeva reminded that complete vaccination against measles and other vaccines prevents children from becoming infected with relevant diseases for life: “In general, 95% of the vaccines included in the national vaccination calendar and used in private medical institutions are brought to Azerbaijan through the Ministry of Health and UNICEF and are used. safe transportation is guaranteed. This means that the vaccines given in private clinics are the same as those given in public medical institutions. In recent years, there have been no cases of complications related to vaccines administered in state medical institutions.”
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