Vaccine

A little over 1 million Bulgarians think vaccines are not safe. This is shown by a study of the Trend Research Center, ordered by "24 Hours".

According to recent reports from international health experts, Europe is currently experiencing a 20-year high in measles cases, including in many countries where it had been mostly eradicated. Within the European Union, Greece has been hit the worst.

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BSAF) launched the first for 2019 vaccination against rabies in wild animals. BFSA said on 27th of March, reports BNT. 

Twelve specially equipped aircraft will scatter over 1 million vaccine baits. The drop of vaccines will take place within 15 days, depending on weather conditions, BFSA explained.

Lack of staff is the most serious problem in health care. Currently, whole areas are served by up to two epidemiologists. This was stated by the chief health inspector, Dr. Angel Kunchev, on the air of BNT.

A major new study confirms that there is no link between vaccination and autism, AFP writes.

For 10 years, data were collected for 650,000 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010. The observed vaccine was against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). The percentage of autistic patients was the same in the vaccinated and unvaccinated ones.

Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has once again urged parents to get their children vaccinated to prevent potential measles cases.

Over 1000 children in Plovdiv are not  vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella. This showed the inspection of the Regional Health Inspection among the GPs in the area.

Private doctors are ordered to commit missed immunizations by the end of March.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has expressed concern over the world's measles epidemic and indicated that in ten countries, including Brazil, Ukraine and France, nearly three quarters of the increased number of people in 2018 registered.

Currently, the total number of officially registered measles cases in Bulgaria is 45. This was announced by the director of the National Center for Contagious and Parasitic Diseases and Epidemiologist Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev.

39 cases of measles in Bulgaria, 24 of them - laboratory proven, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

The last two cases are a 2-year-old child from Ihtiman and a 16-year-old boy from the Nadezhda district in the capital. 

Experts are categorical that an epidemic at this stage can not be announced.