More from Medscape – July 6, 2001 (?)
PEDIATRIC BULLETIN:
VARICELLA IMMUNIZATION IN DAY-CARE CENTER ATTENDEES
The effectiveness of the currently available varicella
vaccine in preventing infection among children attending day-care centers has
been proved.
Infect Med 18(5):235, 2001
http://id.medscape.com/39633.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
MEASLES INCIDENCE BEFORE AND AFTER SUPPLEMENTARY
VACCINATION ACTIVITIES --- LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, 1996--2000
Substantial measles transmission continued despite
intervention. To improve measles control in Zambia, nationwide supplementary
measles vaccination is planned for children aged 9 months--14 years in 2002.
MMWR 50(24):513-516, 2001. Centers for Disease Control
http://id.medscape.com/39621.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
FLU VACCINE DISTRIBUTION AGAIN EXPECTED TO BE DELAYED
IN US
US public health officials predict a repeat of last
year's delay in distributing influenza vaccine.
http://id.medscape.com/39498.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
INFECTIOUS DISEASES CME CIRCLE - INFLUENZA VACCINATION
FOR HEALTHY
PEOPLE: WHO, WHEN AND HOW?
Will the newer live, attenuated influenza vaccines
improve the health of the world?
Infectious Diseases CME Circle - (C) 2001 Medical
Education Collaborative
http://id.medscape.com/39745.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
FDA CLEARS GLAXO'S EXTRA STRENGTH AUGMENTIN FOR
SERIOUS EAR INFECTIONS
GlaxoSmithKline announced on Monday that the US Food
and Drug Administration has approved Augmentin ES-600 for the treatment of
paediatric patients with recurrent or persistent acute otitis media.
http://id.medscape.com/39534.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
DATA ON FIRST AIDS VACCINE EXPECTED THIS YEAR
Initial data on the effectiveness of the first
preventive AIDS vaccine to make its way through human trials should be
available 'within 6 to 9 months,' according to Dr. Seth Berkley, president and
CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
http://id.medscape.com/39592.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
WHO DIRECTOR PLEDGES POLIO ERADICATION BY 2005
The head of the World Health Organization vowed on
Tuesday to eradicate polio from the Earth by the year 2005, but said that $1
billion will be needed to reach that goal.
http://id.medscape.com/39724.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
PROGRESS TOWARD POLIOMYELITIS ERADICATION --- WEST AND
CENTRAL AFRICA, 1999--2000
Substantial progress in polio eradication occurred
during 1999--2000 in west and central Africa. Poliovirus transmission can be
interrupted in the remaining countries where polio is endemic if vaccination
activities are of high quality and NIDs continue to be synchronized within
major
epidemiologic blocs.
MMWR 50(23):481-485, 2001. Centers for Disease Control
http://id.medscape.com/39614.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
ACUTE ENCEPHALOPATHY WITHOUT RASH CAN BE DUE TO
MEASLES
Measles can present with acute encephalitis-like
features minus the rash, according to researchers in India.
http://id.medscape.com/39708.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
FDA PANEL RECOMMENDS EXPANDING BLOOD DONOR DEFERRALS
People who have spent 5 years or more in Europe from
1980 to the present may soon be banned from donating blood in the US due to the
theoreticalrisk of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD).
http://id.medscape.com/39779.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
LEADING MALARIA VACCINE GROUPS JOIN FORCES
Three major players in the quest to develop vaccines
for malaria have joined forces, officials said Friday.
http://id.medscape.com/39481.rhtml?srcmp=id-062901
NEW ORLEANS CITYWIDE ROUNDS: A 61-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WITH
BELL PALSY
Unilateral facial paralysis, hearing loss, and vertigo
developed abruptly in a 61-year-old woman 1 week after she had undergone a stem
cell transfusion for Rh antibody harvesting.
Infect Med 18(5):242-246, 2001
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