Vacera launches the flu vaccine for the winter season. Know the price of the dose

The Holding for Vaccines and Vital Preparations (Vacera) announced on Friday the start of the launch of the seasonal viral “flu vaccine” for the 2020/221 season, inside the center headquarters, and the dose is 170 pounds and the Vaccination is inside the center only from nine in the morning until six in the afternoon.

And some groups resort to taking this vaccine at this time every year (before the start of the winter season) to prevent infectious diseases that affect many people, especially children, the elderly, pregnant women, among others, and this year it seems that there is great importance to take this vaccine.

Dr. Mustafa Mohammadi, Internal Medicine Consultant and Director of the Center for Vaccines and Serums with Serum and Vaccine, confirmed that this year there is great importance in the management of the vaccine against seasonal influenza compared to previous years, due to the spread of the new Corona virus for the first time, which indicates that each year the desire of citizens to take the influenza vaccine, which has achieved High rates of prevention during the winter season and reduction of complications derived from infection influenza such as pneumonia, especially among the elderly and people with chronic illnesses.

The vaccine and vaccine expert added, in exclusive statements to Al-Masry Al-Youm, that this year’s flu vaccine is of great importance, especially due to the presence of the new Kurna epidemic, such as the winter season in which flu viruses that cause colds are spread, in addition to the presence of a virus that also attacks the respiratory system. Thus, we are facing the possibility of contagion with one or both viruses, and this vaccine is a means to prevent both and, therefore, is of great importance this year.

He added that the flu vaccine is scheduled to be available this year in two different types, one that contains 4 strains called the quadruped vaccine and is taken for more than 3 years, while the other type contains 3 groups and is called the triple vaccine and It is intended for children 6 months to less than 3 years.

The vaccine and vaccine expert explained that the influenza vaccine is distinguished as a renewable vaccine and is subject to the latest changes in the virus at the end of last season, as the World Health Organization, through reference centers distributed in 80 countries around the world, it monitors the mutation of the virus and how it will appear in the next season and issues recommendations. For companies involved in the production of vaccines, with the strains that should be included in the flu vaccine for next winter.
Mohammadi revealed that Egypt was eager this year to introduce the best vaccine, which is the quadruple strain vaccine for the first time because of its great importance in preventing seasonal influenza during the winter season, while highlighting the vaccine against seasonal flu has no side effects or complications and has been tested. Its safety and effectiveness, and therefore the number of its employees increases annually.

Regarding the groups prohibited for vaccination, they are the following:
Babies under 6 months.
– Extremely high fever, as vaccination with the vaccine is postponed until the temperature drops.
Egg allergic patients.
Patients with «Guillain Barré» viral quadriplegic syndrome.
People with hypersensitivity to the vaccine or any of its components.

As for the most prominent target groups of the vaccine and those most interested in being vaccinated, they are:
– People with chronic diseases “diabetes, stress, kidney failure and heart disease”.
Allergic patients, pulmonary fibrosis and patients with pulmonary obstruction.
Babies older than 6 months.
Immunosuppressed patients.
Pregnant women
– Old man.