Babies will be able to be vaccinated against whooping cough earlier. A decision has been made by the Ministry of Health to allow the first immunization against the disease to be administered a month and a half after birth, and not as stipulated in the immunization calendar – after the baby’s second month, bTV reports.
The reason for this is that, at the moment, the most registered cases are those under the age of 1 year and complications in newborns are more common, the government information service states.
The number of people infected with whooping cough is increasing in Sofia
According to data from the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, the number of people infected with whooping cough increased to 75 in just one week in Sofia. In the past week, a total of 112 new cases of whooping cough were confirmed in the laboratory, bringing the number of people infected in the country to 317. For the same period last year they were only 4. Two out of every three cases were established in the capital.
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