In Russia, there will be another mandatory childhood vaccine against a deadly infection

The Ministry of Health of Russia announced the need to make significant changes to the national calendar of preventive vaccinations until 2020.

In particular, it is proposed to supplement the list of vaccinations. vaccination against hemophilic infection. This vaccine will help protect children from meningitis, sepsis, and dangerous hemophilic pneumonia, which is often fatal.

A vaccination against hemophilic infection will, like the rest of the mandatory vaccinations, be administered. is free.

Earlier, the Ministry of Health experts stated the need to introduce vaccination into the calendar vaccination against chickenpox, rotavirus infection (the same "intestinal flu").

These two vaccinations will become mandatory for everyone from 2020, the decision has already been made and is not subject to appeal.

Such vaccination is carried out in most countries of the world since the end of the 90s.

Experts say that vaccination against hemophilic infection is effective only if it is done to children aged 3 months. Older children actually do not need it.

Previously, vaccination against the deadly hemophilic infection in Russia was quite difficult to do, and the vaccine had to be purchased abroad.

It took 15 years for Russian scientists to create their own, domestic vaccine. Soon it will go into mass production. By the end of this year, the release of the drug will be adjusted.

In contrast to foreign analogues, it will not contain live virus strains, but a genetically modified protein, similar to human specific immunity proteins.

Such vaccines, according to experts, will be better tolerated by children.