“In Italy following the pandemic there has been a lowering of vaccination coverage, especially for the pediatric population, quantifiable at 1%, which determines a lowering below the threshold of the so-called“ herd immunity ”. It is important to start vaccinations promptly, when the vaccination schedule foresees it, and above all to close the vaccination cycle, that is to do all the doses foreseen because some studies show that for example about 60% of cases of meningitis B could be avoided if the parents performed the vaccinations in the times recommended by the vaccination calendar “. Thus Vincenzo Restivo, researcher in General and Applied Hygiene of the University of Palermo on the occasion of the Congress of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health in Padua.
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