Sevillian pharmacies and the Seville Institute of Pediatrics launched a campaign against the misinformation about vaccines

-The campaign, called “vaccines: health for which they want to” affects their safety, superior to any other drug profile and potentially serious diseases that prevent

-pharmacists call for citizens to report by authoritative sources and avoid the disinformation ” circulating in various Internet forums

– warn thatdue to the migratory flow and the decision of some parents of not vaccinating their children, are emerging outbreaks of diseases that were virtually eradicated in Spain.

Seville, 2012-may The College of pharmacists in Seville, in collaboration with the Seville Institute of Pediatrics (IHP), has launched a campaign called vaccine: health for which they want to ”, which wants to combat the misinformation that is spreading among citizens, widespread on the Internet and social networks, and he is doing some parents to the ill-fated decision to not vaccinate their children. Precisely because of this wrong decision of parents, by the carelessness and neglect of others, and the migratory flow, emerging outbreaks of diseases that were virtually eradicated in our country.

The campaign of the College, to which have been published leaflets and posters that will be available in pharmacies in Seville and for which have also received specific training to pharmacists which have applied them, strikes that vaccines are Biologicals to prevent potentially serious pathologies. Which don’t see cases of diseases that, a few decades ago was an important health problem in our society is precisely thanks to the effectiveness of vaccines, if it decreases the immunization coverage, these diseases will appear again ”, points out Dr. Ignacio Salamanca, medical director of the research unit and studies of the IHP, which adds: vaccination not only has a beneficial effect natural, but collective, protecting, when there is a vaccine high coverage, other groups of age as infants or elderly people. But not vaccinated creates bags where can arise very serious vaccine-preventable diseases outbreaks ”.

The campaign emphasizes further that the safety profile of the vaccine is superior to any other drug ”. The Spanish medicines agency is the official body which authorises the marketing of vaccines and than before and after your permission controls closely through multiple studies the safety, quality and efficacy of vaccines. Any danger, proceed to the immediate withdrawal of the product ”, explains Rosario Cáceres, technician of information of the medicine of the College of pharmacists of Seville.

On one of the false rumors that are most widely used, the technician of the CIM underlines that not only there is no scientific evidence that linked the triple viral vaccine with autism, but there more than 10 scientific publications showing the lack of relationship between the vaccine and pathology.

In summary, and highlights the campaign of the Sevillian pharmaceuticals, vaccines, behind the drinking water, represent the most important medical advance of history ” and all your information on it should sought in authoritative sources, and never by rumors and poisoning that circulate on the Internet and social networks ”, says Cáceres, which encourages citizens to consult with your doctor or pharmacist any questions that may arise from them.

Información de interés socio-sanitario.

Pneumococcal vaccine protects children from diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia, and otitis media. Vaccine your children from 2 months, with three doses and an interval of 2 months between them, more a reminder between 12 and 15 months. If it happened that age, check in your pharmacy rescue dose.

Chickenpox usually suffer in childhood and can have serious complications. Get vaccinated them from the year of age with two doses separated at least one month.

Diarrhea rotavirus is the leading cause of child hospital admission by gastroenteritis. Vaccine to your baby from 6 weeks with three doses separated at least 4 weeks between them.

In Europe, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women between 15 and 44 years after breast cancer.

Although the ideal is to receive three doses of the vaccine before initiating sexual intercourse, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine confers immunity to all active women sexually.

Hepatitis A is a disease on the rise is especially common in children and in adults can cause serious liver problems. The vaccine is administered from the year of life and the booster must be separated from the first 6-12 months.