Influenza AH3N2 'will hit' hard this winter

• April 23, 2024

If you have felt that every day is colder and you feel that you can get sick, it is best to get vaccinated before the arrival of influenza AH3N2.

A strong season of seasonal influenza caused by the AH3N2 virus is forecast in Mexico this winter.

This virus mutated because a few years ago it caused the flu and currently damage to the lungs is registered. Therefore, there may be more cases of pneumonia, hospital admissions and deaths.

In Australia there were more than a thousand deaths and two million infections due to this type of influenza and in the United States a strong outbreak ", warned José Arturo Martínez, in charge of the Influenza Diagnosis of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases 'Ismael Cossío Villegas' (INER ).

Get vaccinated!

The specialist calls on the population to ALL children, the elderly, young adults and pregnant women.

It's time to get vaccinated and protect yourself. The vaccines are now available at public health institutions. Ask them to give you the tetravalent vaccine (designed to protect against four different types of influenza virus).

It would be advisable to do so before January because the more time goes by, the effectiveness is decreasing since at this time is when the virus starts circulating, "said the expert.

If you are already sick, then wait for the acute picture to pass because you may have an unwanted reaction, after this period of convalescence you can get vaccinated.

It is expected that the majority of cases and deaths from this type of influenza will occur in January, February and March 2018.

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