2024-09-02 16:09:03
The Higher Authority for Health “considers that the objectives of this vaccination remain unchanged since the last recommendation”.
Published on 02/09/2024 18:09
Reading time: 1 minute Blood test performed at a laboratory in Ankara, Turkey, on August 28, 2024.
Health authorities maintain recommendations regarding measles vaccinations. The Health Superiority Service (HAS) announced in a press release updating its recommendations on Monday, September 2, that it has not yet expanded vaccination coverage to new groups. if she “It is believed that the goals of this vaccination remain unchanged since the last recommendation” However, the High Authority for Health recommends booster doses for people already judged to be at risk.
This advice applies regardless of the person’s vaccination schedule (one, two or three doses), but only if the last dose was more than two years ago.
Finally, HAS does not recommend vaccination for people infected with MPOX during the 2022 epidemic, believing that their natural immunity is sufficient.
HAS was contacted by the Department of Health this summer amid a number of MPOX epidemics previously described as “Monkeypox”is currently underway in Central Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are driven by different versions of the strain that caused the 2022 epidemic. “Clade 2”It is still circulating quietly in many countries, including France. The epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is caused by “Clade 1”resulting in the deaths of hundreds of children.
But the situation becomes more complicated because a new version of clade 1, variant 1b, has emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and appears to be transmitted mainly through sexual contact among adults, as is the case with the 2022 epidemic.
In this context, the question arises of extending preventive vaccination beyond the target groups for two years: they basically include men in homosexual relationships, male or female prostitutes and anyone working in establishments specialized in sexual encounters people.
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