The chickenpox vaccine has not stopped giving us news in recent months, but this time it is good news for children in the Community of Madrid. It is the first community that begin this week to vaccinate chickenpox to children under 4 who are not vaccinated for being out of calendar.
The Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid plans to vaccinate some 128,733 children, born between October 2012 and August 2014, who have not received the vaccine. They will now be given the first, the second dose when they turn 4, and vaccination is also maintained at 12 in those unvaccinated children who have not passed the disease.
What will happen in other communities?
Madrid has been the first community to establish this early vaccination plan against chickenpox, but throughout 2016 it must also be established in the rest of the Autonomous Communities, according to the agreement adopted on July 29, 2015 in the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System.
He Basque Country will begin to apply it in the month of April to all children born as of January 1, 2015 when they reach the required age, while they have already begun to apply the vaccine to 15-month-old children.
In Asturias, will also be administered from April. The vaccine will be included in the new official schedule for childhood vaccinations, beginning April 1. From that date, the measure will reach children who turn fifteen months, who will receive the first dose. The first to be vaccinated will be babies born in January 2015.
From the same month it will begin to be supplied in Canary Islands when those born from January 1, 2015 begin to turn 15 months. In addition, as reported, he will dispense two doses, this first and another at three years of age, as contemplated in the schedule set in the Interterritorial Council on July 29.
For its part, in Castilla la Mancha All 15-month-old children will be vaccinated from next April, in addition to children from three years old.
Available in pharmacies
While the rest of the Communities are incorporating vaccination in their own calendars (you already know that each autonomy has its own vaccination calendar - yes, a nonsense -), parents who want to administer the vaccine to their children will be able to acquire it in pharmacies.
It is already official that after the withdrawal of the vaccine in 2013, finally from February 1, 2016 the vaccine can be purchased at pharmacies in Spain. The Varivax vaccine, from Sanofi Pasteur MSD, as well as the Varilrix, from GSK, both have a price of € 45.38 and can be used either.
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