The famous droplets against infantile paralysis have their days numbered in Brazil.
The Ministry of Health is already discussing replacing the oral polio vaccine with a more improved version of the vaccine, which will be injected. Currently, two booster doses against the disease are offered in drops for children under one year old.
According to the folder, the replacement of the vaccine should occur gradually from next year and after evaluation by the Technical Advisory Board on Immunizations (CTAI). However, Zé Gotinha, the official mascot of the campaign against the disease, should not leave the scene and will remain in the vaccination campaigns.
According to the professor of pediatric infectology at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and medical consultant in vaccines at DASA, Maria Isabel de Moraes-Pinto, injectable vaccines are safer than droplets.
“Brazil has been free of wild poliomyelitis since the 1990s and the merit is due to oral vaccination. However, we are in a situation where it is necessary to migrate to a vaccine that does not have the risk of developing polio in children, which exists in the oral vaccine. It’s very rare, it’s one for every three million doses applied, but we don’t want to run that risk. The oral vaccine had its turn and now we migrate to a vaccination that is better suited to the moment”, explains the specialist.
According to Saúde, “the vaccination strategies adopted in Brazil, as well as the immunizers indicated for each public, take into account the technological advances in the sector and new scientific evidence”.
The oral vaccine has been on the vaccination schedule in Brazil since the 1960s. All children under five years of age must be vaccinated according to the routine vaccination schedule and in the annual national campaign.
According to the Ministry of Health, since 2016, the vaccination schedule against poliomyelitis has changed to three doses of the injectable vaccine – VIP (2, 4 and 6 months) and two booster doses with the bivalent oral vaccine – VOP (droplet). .
Source: CNN Brasil

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