The second stage of the 62nd Polio Vaccination Campaign will be held in the province of Ciego de Ávila from April 24 to 29, in which children from one month to two years of age will receive another dose and will be reactivated at those who are nine years old.

Infants who cannot be vaccinated on that date due to illness or other causes will have a recovery phase between May 2 and 6. This second stage will coincide with Vaccination Week in Las Americas.

Medical and nursing staffs will work in different places set up as vaccination centers in urban and rural areas, to immunize all the children in the territory.

In the first phase, which took place between February and March, children from one month of age up to two years, 11 months and 29 days of age were vaccinated.

Polio is an infectious-contagious disease, which affects the central nervous system, mostly in children, and can cause muscle atrophy, paralysis, deformity and even death.

Cuba in 1995 received the Certification of Eradication of Poliomyelitis, by the Pan American Health Organization for being the first country in Latin America to eliminate this terrible disease.

It is worth noting that on this small Caribbean island, the entire population under 72 years of age is protected against this highly contagious disease, with more than 900 million doses of the polio vaccine supplied to its population.