Accordingly, as of April 10, the whole province of Cao Bang recorded 3,487 cases of measles, of which 21 cases had positive test results.
Many patients have serious complications, must be treated at district and provincial health facilities. The disease continues to be complicated in many localities across the country.
In order to proactively control and not spread the spread, Cao Bang Provincial Disease Control Center has issued Official Letter No. 744/KSBT-PCBTN, requiring the Health Center of districts and cities to urgently review and make a list of vaccination subjects containing measles components to deploy the 3rd immunization campaign in 2025.
Accordingly, the object groups to be reviewed include: Children from 11 to 15 years of age have not been injected or not injected with 2 measles vaccines; People aged 15 years and older have not been injected or not injected less than 2 noses; Children from 6 months old, especially groups of 6 to less than 9 months have not been injected in previous campaigns; People who are unknown injecting the vaccination, never had measles and wishes for vaccination.
Cao Bang Provincial Disease Control Center requests units to send a written review and registration of subjects to the Department of Infectious Disease Prevention before 9am on April 15. After this time limit, if not sending documents, it will be understood that there is no need for measles vaccine, the unit must be responsible for itself if the outbreak is in the area.
