Kosovo fruit situation: 14 confirmed cases, over 500 children vaccinated for two weeks

In contrast, 14 cases have been confirmed with measles ' disease because they have been unexcused with the vaccine against the disease, and in the first two weeks of this month, over 500 children have been vaccinated.

Pristina's chief of vaccination at the Main Centre of Family Medicine, Xhevryje Canolli, in an interview for Online Economy, showed that vaccine remains key to the prevention of measles.

Then, as you are reported, according to data from the National Institute of Public Health, 14 active measles have been recorded from April 16 to today. All confirmed cases are unexcused children, that is, the failure to detect this infectious disease that can be prevented by vaccine. So the vaccine is the only way to prevent further spread of measles in our country”, Cannolly said.

She urged parents to check their children's vaccination folders and send them to the QMF for vaculation.

Because this is a highly contagious disease and spread rapidly in the community, I had called on parents to check inoculation folders and in cases of their children's non-excision against measles, to be reported to the nearest family medicine centres for vaccines. Avoiding suspicious measles is also recommended. As for the measures taken by the vaccination unit at the main Family Medicine Centre, all unmunised children have been identified and are calling the parents of these children who, as soon as they send them for vaccination at the nearest family medicine centres”, she said.

Canolly said that both doses of vaccination should be taken so that there is full prevention of measles and that students of the first and sixth grade are being vaccinated.

“also from the mobile vaccination teams are vaccinating first and sixth grade students. First-class students are also vaccinated with the second dose of a measles vaccine, namely full protection against measles is achieved by taking two doses. The first dosage applies at one age, and the second dosage applies to first - grade students at six years of age. With the presentation of these fruit cases, as well as calls made directly by parents over the phone, public calls from the National Institute, the Ministry of Health, an increase in parents ' interest in vaccines has been noted. During the last two weeks of May alone, over 500 children against measles have been vaccinated, while over four months... during the first four months of this year, January-April, 686 children have been vaccinated. So it's doubled the number”, Cannolly said.

The doctor also mentioned who are most endangered and who are the most frequent health complications.

It's of utmost importance that the most endangered by measles are children under five years old, pregnant women, people with weakened immunity, even the complications that are presented are more frequent in these... in these cases. Compliments can be presented one in five cases. The most frequent complications are pneumonia, ear inflammation, or permanent hearing loss in cases where inflammation is complicated, then brain inflammation or encephalitis, which in severe cases can be fatally completed. Having... in view of the seriousness of this disease, I had asked parents not to hesitate to vaccinate their children, since vaccines are safe and very effective. The anti-fruit vaccine in us is used for over 50 years and is very sure”, she told EO.

Asked whether he causes vaccines against autism measles, Canoll denied it, saying that all studies indicate that there is no link of both diseases.

All studies that have been done so far, all scientific research shows no connection between the fruit vaccine and the spectrum disorder of autism. One of the biggest scientific studies is that of 2019 in Denmark, which has been done in over 650 thousand children, which studies confirm that there is no cause connection between the fruit vaccine and the spectre disorders of autism. And in 2021 over 13 studies have been conducted in over 2 million children, and no links have been found”.

“Then, in December 2025, WHO, after a comprehensive analysis of all scientific evidence, studies done, reconfirms the lack of this connection between the regions of autism disorder and vaccine”, Canoll said. /Periscope