The flu is a fairly contagious viral disease that has the highest incidence in children and the elderly. In healthy people it has no complications (apart from spending a rather bad week), but in children and older people with chronic diseases can cause significant decompensations.
It also produces great truancy. 30 percent of children with the flu lose up to a week of school, 25 percent need three days to recover, and 22 percent do not go to school for two days. In half of the cases, the virus was spread at school.
Currently, in Spain the flu vaccine It is not included in the vaccination calendar, but it is offered every fall to children with chronic or respiratory diseases and to children living with sick people. The Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP) has been insisting for several years that this vaccine should be included in all calendars for healthy children over six months.
This has already been implemented in countries such as the US as it has been recommended by such important units in the field of infectious diseases as is the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)". In Europe, Finland already includes this vaccine in its calendar for all children between six and 36 months of age.
The basis of this recommendation is based not only on protecting children, but on preventing them from spreading the disease to other more vulnerable people such as their grandparents, since children are the main vectors of the flu.
The AEP insists that until this measure is implemented, at the moment the vaccination in children with risk diseases and in the health personnel in contact with them should be taken at a low table, since the number of these people who are vaccinated is very current low.
