One in three over-65s refuse seasonal flu shots
As the autumn vaccination campaign for the elderly (this year widened to include anyone over the age of 60) is being prepared, Portugal’s public health institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge has
Free flu vaccines to be offered to all Portugal’s over-60s
Registered health service users can receive flu and Covid vaccines ‘simultaneously’ Flu vaccination in Portugal will be free for people aged 60 and over and for priority groups from 2023/24,
Health centres “forced to delay vaccines for children”
Doctors and nurses have begun complaining about the delays in receiving children’s vaccines required under the national vaccination programme: those against diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, tetanus etc. The reality, explains
Monkeypox now detected throughout Portugal
Still affecting only men – generally men who have sex with men Official news today is that every region of Portugal has now registered cases of monkeypox – a strain
DGS health authority accused of releasing “dubious technical opinion” to try and persuade more parents to submit children to Covid vaccination
Yesterday news sources in Portugal quoted a ‘technical opinion’ released by the DGS health authority suggesting incidents of myocarditis in children infected by SARS-CoV-2 were 60 times higher than in
Medical experts call for suspension of Portugal’s child vaccinations programme
A group of 27 medical experts – including pediatricians – is urging Portugal’s health service to suspend the country’s child vaccinations programme. In an Open Letter they explain that Infarmed
Child’s death following vaccine: Infarmed promises statement later today
As the country awaits the results of the autopsy on six-year-old Rodrigo, the little boy who died over the weekend after becoming ill following his first dose of Covid vaccine,
Portugal’s under-12s to start receiving Covid vaccines from December 18
Vaccinations against Covid-19 in Portugal’s youngest school-age children will begin on December 18. DGS health director Graça Freitas told a press conference this afternoon that decisions have been taken primarily
Portuguese specialist in favour of vaccinating children against Covid-19 “has contract with Pfizer”
A second Portuguese medical expert in favour of vaccinating children against Covid-19 has been found to be on the Pfizer payroll. Sábado writes that pediatrician and associate professor in infectious
Stampede for flu vaccines: pharmacies compile waiting lists
With flu vaccines only ‘free’ to a limited number of people, there is a veritable stampede of people ‘booking their shots’ at pharmacies to become available by the end of