The human race has been affected by innumerable external aggressions from microscopic entities, which have caused diseases since time immemorial, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, which are currently widely studied and controllable after the discovery of bactericidal agents known as antibiotics, antiparasitics.
Lourdes Estrella, an endocrinologist from the Centers for Diagnosis and Advanced Medicine and Medical Conferences and Telemedicine (Cedimat), says that in the case of viruses they are changing microorganisms, which do a lot of damage since their objective is directed towards the cells, being capable of altering the entire cellular structure and for which there are vaccines.
Estrella explains that after the discovery of the vaccine, extensive work began to design inoculations that can control and prevent diseases such as: cholera, rabies, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, typhus, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis, chicken pox, human papilloma, malaria, ebola and the flu virus (influenza) in its three variants.
“Some of these were grouped together, such as DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) and the triple vaccine against (measles, mumps and rubella), which began to be applied from early childhood under the immunization programs implemented globally. , provoking immunological protection from the first stages of life, with which it has been possible to stop the flow of all these diseases, which, if not for timely vaccinations, would have greatly reduced the human population on earth”, details the specialist.
It influences her
Among the vaccines developed, there is the influenza vaccine that must be administered annually, because this virus usually undergoes mutations systematically every year. However, there are viral infections for which there are no vaccines, such as HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
There is also the case of the Coronavirus, which was recognized in 2002, capable of causing great damage to the lungs, with the appearance of the first case in that year. This virus causes the syndrome known as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), it presents in its structure a series of external spicules that give it the appearance of a crown, this is known as SARS COV-1 which was characterized by a limited spread, affirms the doctor.
16 years later
The expert points out that on that occasion the research process for the production of immunization began, which was stopped due to the fact that the virus did not spread. 16 years later, a new Coronavirus arises causing a great respiratory affectation, the first case detected is in 2019, which is why it is recognized as SARS COV 2 or Covid-19.
On that occasion, the virus does have a great capacity to spread, so it quickly spreads throughout the world, affecting millions of people in a vertiginous way and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in practically the entire geography worldwide, becoming in a pandemic, achieving the paralysis of almost all activities, except for health in all countries.
It is then when the scientific community, faced with the magnitude of the problem, resumes the process that was stopped in the preparation of the vaccine against this type of virus in 2003, until completing all the necessary phases to start the process of inoculation in human beings, in which It started at the end of 2020.
affects the organs
This highly contagious virus has been able to affect practically almost all the organs of the body, from which it is derived that it has involved many specialties that have had to become involved in the knowledge and management of affecting their systems, says the doctor.
Endocrinology is not exempt from this, since diabetes is one of the pathologies that have been widely affected by Covid-19, causing a great decompensation in patients who suffer from it and even its debut in patients who were not known as diabetics, so that these, like hypertensive, obese, asthmatic, elderly or cancer patients, are among the population groups considered vulnerable.
And taking into account that most of these are elderly, hypertensive and many others are also obese, it goes without saying that this group is highly vulnerable.
For this reason, when the vaccination process began, these patients were in the front line for receiving their first dose and therefore completing the scheme until their third dose.
your protection
– Low risk
The vaccine does not prevent contracting the virus but it does ensure a low risk of complications, unless the patient has other comorbidities that lead to an undesirable end, this being a non-significant number.
Recommendation
No advance in medicine has managed to save as many lives as these, thanks to them some diseases that are perceived as threats to humanity cease to exist or have significantly decreased.
From all that has been said about vaccination, my recommendation is always to opt for adequate immunization.
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