Hong Kong's medical community warns that Hong Kong will have a peak period of pneumococcal infection this winter and calls on high -risk people to vaccine.
Comprehensive Hong Kong online media "HKNET" and NOW News reported that the Hong Kong Infection and Infectious Disease Medical Association said on Tuesday (October 22) that pneumococcal bacteria are the most common bacteria that lead to severe community pneumonia.Symptoms such as meningitis and sepsis.
Medical Association pointed out that pneumonia has become the second killer in Hong Kong for many years, second only to malignant tumors.
However, the Hong Kong Infection and Infectious Disease Medical Association visited 483 high -risk illness people and found that only one adult in vaccination was vaccinated among groups over 65 years old in Hong Kong, of which only 6.4%were inoculated and two doses.vaccine.
Medical Association calls on high -risk people to take the initiative to understand the different choices of pneumonia vaccines in injection.
Pneumococcal vaccine is mainly divided into binding vaccine (PCV) and polysaccharides (PPSV).Kong Fusongyi, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Lecture Professor of the Department of Science Department of the University of Hong Kong Medical College, believes that the cause of high -risk people failed to correctly complete the vaccination, which may include that I do not know that the second dose of vaccine needs to be vaccinated, or which pneumococcal vaccine is suitableHis second dose vaccine.
Kong Fanyi said that comprehensive research results, 20 -valent pneumococcal combination vaccine (PCV20) is a more convenient choice to help avoid failing to complete the combination of multiple doses of vaccine.One of the choices.
