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Paraguayan Pediatric Association urges parents to continue accompanying children to vaccinations This is one of the main events of the 85th anniversary event which will be held on September 10th.

Dr Ernesto Weber, president of the scientific organisation, emphasized that the hexavalent vaccine, which was recently included in the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI), has been widely accepted by parents.

“This year is a year of celebration for the Paraguayan Pediatric Society, which is why we have been involved since the beginning of the year “Vaccination is power”, starting with the measles, mumps, rubella campaign and continuing with the winter vaccination campaign, which includes a quadrivalent vaccine against influenza and a bivalent vaccine against Covid-19,” he told GEN/Nación Media channel .during “Up Today.”

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He said the company is now “fully cooperating” with PAI following the Hexavalent merger, which “thank God is well-received by parents”. “Children are being vaccinated, We pediatricians are very pleased to see that this new hexavalent vaccine has a much smaller effect than what we have seen with pentavalent vaccines before”indicated.

Pediatricians insist that the biologic, which protects against six diseases, represents less suffering for children because of all the vaccine-induced side effects, such as fever, pain, burning sensation and swelling in the legs. many. “When parents come for consultation, they are happy to tell us this”Pay attention to.

The hexavalent dose protects against the following diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type b. The latter is a bacterium that causes meningitis, pneumonia, otitis media, and has caused much damage to the Paraguayan population. Dr. Weber said there was no vaccine at the time, and there were many children suffering from hydrocephalus, convulsions, meningitis, all sequelae of the disease.

“It was merged from a cohort of children born in April this year. Previously the children would have received the pentavalent IPV vaccine, now the children will receive this hexavalent vaccine at 2, 4, 6 months, and at 18 a booster vaccine at 3 months. It covers six serious diseases in children of this age, and With this vaccine, we can now protect them for a good life”,meaning is.

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