Daily News 2012-02-22

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Camp Hill School District chickenpox outbreak likely will affect just 1 ...

By DIANA FISHLOCK, The Patriot-News Camp Hill School District officials expect the chickenpox case in the middle school/high school building won't spread to other students. They sent a letter home to parents Tuesday saying a student has contracted ...
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Flu shot for expectant mothers may help their infants

US Army Corps of Engineers Europe District and their families receive the flu vaccine. The benefits of the vaccine far outweigh any risks, said Dr. Julie Morita, the medical director for Chicago's immunization program. by Laura Mihelich Influenza ...
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Pitt-led Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness of Adult Pneumonia Vaccines

The currently used vaccine, 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23), has been recommended for prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) since 1983. IPD occurs when the pneumococcus bacteria gets inside normally sterile parts of ...
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All U.S. Adults Should Get Whooping Cough Shot: Panel

22 (HealthDay News) -- US health experts recommended Wednesday that all adults get vaccinated against whooping cough, an infectious bacterial disease that triggers uncontrollable coughing and is especially dangerous to infants.
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UN agency urges vaccinations for all Afghan children after measles ...

Measles is a highly infectious disease that occurs through the spread of nasal ... of death among young children even though a safe vaccine is available.

MMRGlobal Receives Third U.S. Patent for Providing Online Medical Records

LOS ANGELES, CA, Feb 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- MMRGlobal, Inc. (OBB:MMRF) ("MMR"), a leading provider of Personal Health Records ("PHR"), MyEsafeDepositBox storage solutions and electronic document management and imaging systems for ...
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I Really Want to Know: What Can I Do for Parents Who Are Afraid of Vaccines?

The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is one that often particularly worries them, even when I point out that we are seeing cases of measles here in Massachusetts. I don't know everything there is to know about anything, let alone vaccines.
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ACIP Calls for Universal Tdap Vaccination

By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today A government vaccine advisory panel voted 14-to-1 on Friday that all adults 65 and older -- not just those who come into contact with infants -- should receive the tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular ...
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Patients contacted about Bluewater Health booster vaccinations

Bluewater Health is advising 112 patients that the tetanus diphtheria booster vaccine they received at the emergency department in Sarnia between Nov. 25 and Jan. 6 may have been ineffective due to unexpected fluctuations in the temperature of the ...
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Measles outbreak spreads in Indiana

The total number of confirmed measles cases in Indiana is up to 15 according to state health officials. However, the latest confirmed case does not pose a risk of spreading since the individual has been in self-isolation since being exposed.
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Whooping cough vaccines should be given to all adults, gov't panel says

A woman is vaccinated against whooping cough (pertussis), at a pharmacy in Pasadena, California on September 17, 2010. (CBS/AP) All US adults should get the whooping cough vaccine, a federal advisory panel voted Wednesday. The panel wants to expand its ...
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Pertussis cases at schools raise concerns

The public health agency, in a letter to all parents and staff at Vashon's three public schools, says adults should pay attention to cold symptoms among children, noting they could be the first signs of pertussis, or whooping cough.
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NC reports its first child flu fatality

Most influenza infections can be prevented by the simple act of getting the flu vaccine. Flu vaccine is readily available and affordable and is the single most effective way to protect yourself and your family. Flu vaccine is recommended for anyone ...
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Flu Shots Are Still Recommended Despite A Mild Flu Season - NewsOn6.com ...

By Type By Specialty It's been the mildest flu season in decades, and it started months later than it normally does. But now that flu season is here, some Tulsans are wondering does my flu shot still work? The Tulsa City-County Health Department says ...
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Vaccine requirements updated by KDHE

There have been minimal changes for vaccination requirements, published by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, for the 2012-13 school year. Each required vaccination increased by one grade level. Vaccination requirements such as Hepatitis ...
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Hepatitis C Blood Test

In 2007, more Americans died from hepatitis C than from AIDS, the Center For Disease Control (CDC) reports. Three-quarters of these deaths occurred in people ages 45 to 64. As First Responders, we are vaccinated against hepatitis A and B. But currently ...
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Texas A&M University-Texarkana Student Hospitalized With Viral Meningitis

February 21, 2011 - On February 21, 2012, the university confirmed a student enrolled during the current spring 2012 semester at Texas A&M University-Texarkana has been diagnosed with viral meningitis. Viral meningitis (aseptic meningitis) is serious ...
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'You never think meningitis will happen to you'

Mum and dad Nick Dancy and Anna Purska, of Barrow Gurney, are now urging families to be aware of the signs of septicaemia and meningitis so that others do not suffer the same tragedy they have. Alicja died of meningococcal septicaemia in Poland on ...
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Vaccine Trial Recruitment Wraps Up

Genticel announces that it has completed the recruitment of all patients participating in its Phase 1b clinical trial evaluating a lyophilized formulation of ProCervix, its candidate therapeutic HPV vaccine on adult women already infected with human ...
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Texas A&M-Texarkana confirms case of viral meningitis

These include vaccines against measles and mumps (the MMR vaccine) and chickenpox (the varicella-zoster vaccine). Avoiding bites from mosquitoes and other ...

What goes on in the Washtenaw County Public Health Department?

Our family immunization program provides routine childhood, adolescent and adult vaccines as recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and as required by Michigan schools. Our immunization staff oversee 40 local Vaccine for ...
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Adult vaccination rate still too low

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a substantial increase in immunizations is needed to avoid vaccine-preventable deaths. By Carolyne Krupa, amednews staff. Posted Feb. 22, 2012. Not enough adults are receiving recommended vaccinations ...
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Adult Pneumococcal Vaccines - How Cost Effective Are They?

According to a computer-based cost-effectiveness analysis in the February issue of JAMA, recommending the use of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) could possibly prevent more pneumococcal disease than the current 23-valent ...
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Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee, Anti ...

... as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices." Providing information on the vaccine to parents seems like a step toward addressing Friedman's concerns over informed consent.
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All older adults added to vaccine advice for whooping cough by US advisory panel

The adult vaccine combines protection against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. One version of the vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was licensed for use in the elderly last year. The committee said another version, made by Sanofi Pasteur, ...
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Global Polio Eradication Gets Major Boost

India's momentous accomplishment is boosting prospects of polio becoming only the second disease after smallpox to have been eradicated. To ensure that it remains polio-free, India is holding a second round of National Immunization Days.
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Europe must provide own security as US shifts focus to Pacific, says Labour

Murphy has highlighted concerns about the use of biological agents like anthrax and smallpox by 'non-state actors.' Photo: REX By James Kirkup Jim Murphy, the shadow defence secretary, also said Britain is underprepared for a terrorist attack using ...
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Pediatricians report upswing in vaccine refusal, dismissing patients

The researchers note that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advise against discharging families from practices for the sole reason of refusal to vaccinate.
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Real consequences, valid concerns about vaccinations

A former researcher for the NIH, Dr. JB Classen, has published data showing a correlation between vaccinations and juvenile diabetes. In New Zealand, after a hepatitis B vaccination campaign during the late 1980s, juvenile diabetes increased 60 percent ...
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15th case of measles in state confirmed

A 15th case of measles has been confirmed, but state health officials say the most recent case poses no additional risk to others because the individual has been self-quarantined since his or her exposure. "We were made aware that this individual was ...
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Whooping cough just keeps spreading in county

"It's continuing to grow and grow and grow," said Dr. Yuan-Po Tu, who closely monitors infectious diseases at The Everett Clinic. "We have not seen the peak of this." There were 225 cases reported in the county last year. So far this year, ...
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Clinical pathologist wants taxpayers to pay for HPV Gardasil ...

On January 1, 2011, Dr. Philip Castle became the first Executive Director of the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Institute. Dr. Philip E. Castle also served on a data safety and monitoring board for human papillomavirus vaccines ...
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Still watching for whooping cough

Public health officials advise parents and caregivers who are in close contact with children under one to get a pertussis booster shot, unless they've had a booster in the past five years. "Since most of us get the last immunization when we're ...
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Polone: The False Circular Logic Behind Hollywood's Resistance to ...

... industry making movies and television for the African-American market is Tyler Perry. ... and black CEOs at companies like American Express, Merck, ...

Underprivileged kids get PCV shots

By Fairuz Mohd Shahar | 0 comments KUALA LUMPUR: Ten underprivileged children aged between 4 months and 5 years from Ti-Ratana Welfare Society were given pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) recently. The vaccinations, arranged by Aim For Broader ...
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Super Bowl wake up call on measles vaccination

Measles is considered the deadliest of all childhood rash/fever illnesses, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and kills as many as 200000 worldwide each year. About one in 10 children with measles gets an ear infection, ...
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Norovirus vaccine shows promise

An experimental vaccine that protects against a nasty stomach virus that hits one in five people annually has shown promise in early clinical trials, researchers say. The vaccine against norovirus developed by the Center for Infectious Diseases and ...
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Vaccines and autism: Same as it ever was

... at a very early age are inconsistent with the claim, for instance, that the MMR vaccine causes autism, given that the MMR isn't given that early.

Camp Hill School District warns parents about chickenpox exposure

By DIANA FISHLOCK, The Patriot-News Chickenpox has been contracted by a child at Camp Hill School District's middle/high school, and other children may have been exposed to the virus, which spreads easily. Officials sent a letter home with district ...
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MMRGlobal Receives Third US Patent for Providing Online Medical ...

MMRGlobal, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) ("MMR"), a leading provider of Personal Health ... and related patents including the FavId® idiotype vaccine that was the ...

Warning over flu jab deadline

VULNERABLE residents have been warned that time is running out to receive their winter flu vaccine. While most older people in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire have now had their jab, there are some younger residents who may still be at risk.
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MMRGlobal Receives Third US Patent for Providing Online Medical ...

Over the last several years, MMR has been working to maximize the value of both ... its FavId®/Specifid™ vaccine clinical trials for the treatment of B-Cell ...

Measles outbreak prompts health chiefs concerns

Sarah Johnson Griffiths, consultant in public health for NHS Western Cheshire, said: “Although we are lucky and have not seen an increase in confirmed cases of measles in the Western Cheshire area, we want to remind people of the early signs and ...
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Second dose of measles vaccination introduced

Ghana has introduced a second dose of measles vaccination for children to ensure a total eradication of measles nationwide. Under the second dose programme, children from 18 months to 30 months would be required to have a second immunization at all ...
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The Meningitis Media Storm: What Others are Saying about RHS

By Cody Kitaura Last week an unnamed 17-year-old senior at Rosemont High School came down with meningococcal disease, which can manifest as bacterial meningitis and can be fatal. The student is hospitalized, according to a newsletter released by the ...
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UK 'not ready for bioterror attack'

Mr Murphy suggested that anthrax, smallpox or other deadly agents could be the biggest threat in the 21st century, and the response was untested. The danger was highlighted as Labour launched its own review of the UK's defence capabilities.
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Fighting Sioux Hockey Game Site Of Offensive Chants

and "smallpox blankets" during the Feb. 10-11 series. The latter refers to some historical claims that Indians were given smallpox-infected blankets by white settlers. "I thought it was over the top," Czmowski said. "I'm all for rowdy cheering and ...
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Flash Mob Raises Awareness About Polio

A group of local Rotarians is on a mission to stamp out polio, one flash mob at a time. By Sunde Farquhar A group of local Rotarians is on a mission to stamp out polio, one flash mob at a time. From left to right: Welch Agnew, Diane Sharp, Craig McCart ...
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CSL Raises Profit Forecast, Spurred by Blood-Based Therapies

s Gardasil cervical-cancer vaccine boosted earnings, CSL said. That's helping cushion the impact of a stronger Australian dollar, which is cutting the value ...

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Pain from HPV Vaccine Less Severe and Less Frequent | Body ...

The research team of Peter Reiter et all studied the prevalence of pain following the administration of the HPV vaccine and whether this factor had an effect on.
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Fastmed Provides Free Flu Shots To Patients

The Influenza virus has an incubation period and it takes up to 2 weeks for protection to develop after receiving the flu vaccine shot. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend receiving your flu shot each year, as influenza viruses are ...
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students warned of mumps outbreak

People in this age group were more likely to have received only one dose of the MMR vaccine, making them more likely to catch mumps. Students are being urged to contact their GP to check if they are fully protected against the disease.
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Whooping cough confirmed at Wood County school

BY THE NUMBERS A Wood County health official confirmed Tuesday a case of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, at the Wood County Alternative School. "We are following up on one confirmed case of pertussis in a student who attends the Vesper ...
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Flu shots during pregnancy help babies

Offspring of women who receive influenza immunisation during pregnancy have better intrauterine growth and fewer respiratory illnesses during flu season, according to a new study. "Influenza immunisation during pregnancy protects the mother, ...
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Pertussis count in Jefferson County grows to nine children

Jefferson County Public Health Director Jean Baldwin said Feb. 21 that legally, she couldn't be more specific about where the cases have been reported because there is no clustering of cases and technically no outbreak in one specific location.
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Do Researchers Deserve Freedom or Career Demolition? Long Beach Party for a Cause.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield has filed a defamation lawsuit against the British Medical Journal, Dr. Fiona Godlee, (editor) and journalist Brian Deer, who have been at the forefront of the media murder, burial and continued exhumation for more desecration of ...
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Clinical pathologist wants taxpayers to pay for HPV Gardasil ...

Clinical pathologist wants taxpayers to pay for HPV Gardasil vaccination, but discouraged HPV DNA testing.
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The Walker-Smith Appeal, the British Media and the Boseley Problem

All this led later to particular embarrassment for Ben Goldacre, whose vacillating position on the matter was reported on Age of Autism (Can We Have it ...

Panacea Biotec develops polio vaccine Polprotec, launches in Nigeria with ...

The company along with the Nigeria-based Emzor Pharmaceutical entered into a joint Planet Polio-Free Mission to achieve global polio eradication. Under the mission, the two providers will ensure that no child will ever again be paralyzed by WPV (Wild ...
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Resistance Mars Polio Immunisation in Jigawa

By Ruby Leo And Judd Leonard Okafor, 22 February 2012 Plans by the government to eradicate polio by the end of 2010 may suffer some major setbacks as vaccinators in Jigawa State report huge numbers of resistance. Many parents were said to have refused ...
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Five-in-one vaccine carries small risk of seizure

Children receiving the five-in-one vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b have a small increased risk of febrile seizures. Babies inoculated with a commonly used five-in-one vaccine to ...
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A pox on food truck ban

If it makes the city look like it has chicken pox, you can thank Assembly Democrat Bill Monning of Carmel. It is Monning who on Valentine's Day sent a love letter to owners of food trucks in the form of AB1678. The bill would ban mobile food and ...
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The low-down on cancer vaccines

The first cancer preventative vaccine was approved by the FDA in 1981. This vaccine protects against hepatitis B virus infection. A chronic hepatitis B infection can lead to liver cancer. Most children in the US are vaccinated shortly after birth.
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Receiving flu vaccine still vital

With flu season typically peaking in January or February, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene wants to remind Maryland residents that it's not too late to get an influenza vaccine, according to a press release Tuesday from DHMH.
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Cochrane Reports: Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children (Review)

Mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) are serious diseases that can lead to potentially fatal illness, disability and death. However, public debate over the safety of the trivalent MMR vaccine and the resultant drop in vaccination coverage in several ...
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Bill to end HPV vaccine requirement advances

A bill to end Virginia's requirement that girls receive a cancer-preventing vaccine — except when their parents object — was approved Tuesday in a Senate subcommittee. Like every other General Assembly vote on Del. Kathy Byron's human papillomavirus ...
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Study raises concerns about food packaging

"Some of these kids had been vaccinated four times, and at age 7, ... gender, and time since the last immunization, as well as exposure to mercury and PCBs ...

Across the University 2/22/2012

The announcement asks students, faculty and staff to be aware of the symptoms and take precaution to prevent whooping cough or pertussis. Northern Kentucky University Department of Health, Counseling and Prevention Services (University Center room 440) ...
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Health: Meet the meningitis survivor standing tall

Katie Baldwin met determined meningitis survivor Kathleen Hawkins. HER consultant likened it to being hit by a double-decker bus. That was the kind of harm that meningitis and septicaemia had caused to Kathleen Hawkins' body.
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Brushing teeth could prevent meningitis: research

Brushing one's teeth and flossing regularly could help prevent meningitis, a study that identifies a link between a common type of mouth bacteria and the disease suggests. Researchers have found a type of oral bacteria that they have linked to ...
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Nigeria: UNICEF to Spend US$500000 on Immunisation

By Tony Adibe, 22 February 2012 Enugu — The UNICEF A-Field Office has earmarked $500000 for immunisation in 10 states of the country. The states include Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers.
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Study: No Significant Rise in Seizure Risk From Common Kids' Vaccine

21 (HealthDay News) -- Children who receive a combination vaccine known as DTaP-IPV-Hib have no significant increased risk of febrile seizure, a convulsion triggered by a fever, during the week after vaccination, researchers in Denmark report.
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'Flu vaccine can help prevent undersized babies'

The study, a randomised controlled trial involving 340 healthy pregnant women in Bangladesh in the third trimester, looked at the effect of immunization with the influenza vaccine on babies born to vaccinated mothers. It was part of the Mother'sGift ...
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Expired polio vaccines not deadly: experts

KARACHI: Senior paediatricians and child health activists said at a press conference on Tuesday that oral vaccines used in national campaigns against polio could in no condition cause death. Insisting that there was no credible correlation between ...
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South Putnam taking measles precautions

By LAUREN BOUCHER, Staff Writer The threat of measles in Central Indiana hasn't hit Putnam County, but that isn't stopping South Putnam Schools from taking precautions. Superintendent Bruce Bernhardt discussed the issue with the school board Tuesday.
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They need a jab

The advice to the general public, said a health service spokesman, is: 'Please ensure your child is vaccinated with MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella). 'Do not be tempted to give single vaccines; they are not licensed or approved by regulatory ...
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New Hepatitis C Treatment

And unlike hepatitis B, there is no vaccine for hepatitis C, until now. Up until last summer, treating people with hepatitis C was a gamble, with many side effects, including anemia, vomiting, hair loss and depression. "These treatments are very ...
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Julie Owens shows support for Rotary's polio eradication program

The occasion highlighted a global campaign to eradicate Polio internationally by the end of the year. Ms Owens was pleased that the Federal Government pledged to provide $50 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative over four years.
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East Henderson service club hopes to eradicate polio

The club is holding a polio awareness fundraiser as one of its service projects this year. By Leigh Kelley East Henderson High School students want to help eradicate polio throughout the world, and they need the community's assistance to do it.
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Actress Mia Farrow launches UN-backed polio vaccination campaign in Chad

Mia Farrow gives a boy a dose of oral polio vaccine at an immunisation site in Moundou, Chad. Photo: UNICEF/O. Asselin The United States actress and humanitarian advocate Mia Farrow has helped launch a United Nations-supported polio vaccination ...
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National vaccination campaign from Feb 26

NEPALGUNJ: A national vaccination campaign against rubella-measles and polio disease is to begin here from coming February 26. The first phase of the campaign shall cover 15 districts in the mid and far western region including Banke, Bardia, Dang, ...
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Flu Shots During Pregnancy Help Birth Weight

The researchers randomly assigned 170 participants to receive influenza vaccine, and the remaining 170 to receive pneumococcal vaccine as control. The team compared the weight of babies born during a circulation of an influenza virus, and again when ...
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Vaccine Exemptions: Do They Really Put Non-Vaccinated Children at Risk?

Indeed, current vaccine policy necessarily depends on this scientific theory. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tells us: "No vaccine is 100% effective. Most routine childhood vaccines are effective for 85% to 95% of recipients.
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College students in Texas required to get meningitis vaccine

By Maria Cendejas and editing by Aimee Keenan-Greene Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into a law that says it requires that all college student need to get a meningitis vaccine. It takes effect in the beginning of spring semester of 2012 to all the ...
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Study: Gardasil risks outweigh preventive benefits

Rick Perry, whose executive order mandating Gardasil injections was later overturned by the Texas legislature, was attacked by social conservatives, ...

WHO may declare India as polio free nation in next two years

The pulse polio vaccination programme has become a great hit in the country. Except a case of a girl child in west Bengal in 2011, there have been no such cases of polio been reported in the country. If there are no polio cases found in the country in ...
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Polio not confined to conflict zones

ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: Four new polio cases have been reported from across the country, affirming that the crippling virus is no longer confined to or originating from the conflict-ridden northern areas of Pakistan. “The four new cases bring the total ...
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State Confirms 15th Measles Case

The measles outbreak, which has sickened 15 people in Boone and Hamilton counties, has been traced to a family who was infected during a trip overseas, health officials said. Members of the family visited public spaces and that the highly-contagious ...
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Health dept. confirms 15th measles case

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana health officials say they've confirmed a 15th case of measles in central Indiana. Indiana State Department of Health issued a news release Tuesday confirming the latest case without specifying where the person resides.
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Some hail HPV vaccine as miracle drug others question safety ...

While the government calls the HPV vaccine "safe and effective," a growing number of families are piecing together disturbing medical mysteries and tracing ...
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New worry for baby boomers: Hepatitis C

Half of the 3 million Americans infected with Hepatitis C don't even know it. NBC's Nancy Snyderman reports. >> we are back as promised with that's been branded as a silent epidemic among baby boomers . a virus a lot of people don't know they have, ...
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New vaccine is effective against all major strains of hepatitis C

Now Houghton and a team at the University of Alberta have developed a vaccine from a single strain that is effective against all known strains of the disease. Due to the virulence of hepatitis C, which is greater than HIV, it was thought that ...
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Is this the year we finally wipe out polio once and for all?

In 1979, the World Health Organization successfully eradicated smallpox, removing one of history's greatest killers from the face of the Earth. Now, 33 years later, we just might be on the verge of repeating that feat with polio.
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Featrs bioterror attacks could pose bigger threat to Britain than conventional ...

Fanatics armed with anthrax, smallpox or other deadly agents could present an even greater threat than conventional bombers in the 21st Century, Mr Murphy will predict. But the UK's capability to withstand a doomsday attack is untested, he will say at ...
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Flu Vaccine Protects Newborns in Multiple Ways

The flu vaccine can do more than protect a pregnant mother and her baby from the flu. It also appears to reduce the risk of having an underweight baby. A new study comparing women who received the flu vaccine while pregnant with those who did not ...
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Texas requires college students to get meningitis vaccine

By Maria Cendejas Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into a law that says it requires that all college student need to get a meningitis vaccine. It takes effect in the beginning of spring semester of 2012 to all the students that are enrolled in private ...
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Newly identified oral bacterium linked to heart disease and meningitis

S. tigurinus was isolated from blood of patients suffering from endocarditis, meningitis and spondylodiscitis (inflammation of the spine). It bears a close resemblance to other Streptococcus strains that colonise the mouth. Bleeding gums represent a ...
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Officials: Rosemont High student's meningitis of little danger to others

By Bill Lindelof and Jennifer Garza A student at Rosemont High school has come down with a form of meningitis, but school and Sacramento county health officials say there is little danger to classmates. The male student has a meningococcal infection, ...
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Low Febrile Seizure Risk After Acellular Pertussis Vaccine

Some public health experts fear that parental refusal of vaccination has contributed to the rise in pertussis among teenagers and babies younger than 6 months of age since the 1980s, a trend identified by the US Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Controversial vaccine is the subject of a lunch talk at Fetzer Center

By Daniel Gimmler The controversies surrounding the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine will be the subject of a talk on Thursday. The controversy surrounding the HPV vaccine was given steam by Michelle Bachmann in a Republican presidential debate in ...
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Newer Pneumonia Vaccine May Be Better Deal

Explain that for adults, pneumococcal vaccination may be more cost-effective with the 13-valent conjugate, formerly reserved for children (Prevnar 13), than with the currently recommended 23-valent version (Pneumovax 23). Point out that changing some ...
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PCV13 Works Best Against Pneumococcal Disease in Adults

The pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, PCV13, may be better in adults than the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, PPSV23, at reducing disease burden because of its potential effectiveness against nonbacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia, according to a ...
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Health Department Lists Measles Infection Locations

Indiana health officials have expanded their list of places where they say people may have been exposed to measles. The State Health Department says there are now at least 14 confirmed cases. But ironically, they say they haven't confirmed any actual ...
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Health officials confirm 15th case of measles

State health officials announced Tuesday that the number of measles cases has risen to 15. This most recent case shouldn't pose an increased risk, though, because the person had been in self-isolation since he or she was exposed to the disease.
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The best way to prevent cervical cancer is with routine Pap screening starting at age 21 years. Vaccination cannot prevent as many cervical cancers as can.
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Combo Vaccine May Raise Babies' Risk for Fever-Caused Seizures

... of getting febrile seizures on the day they get either of their first two doses of a recommended combination vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and Haemophilus flu type B (DTaP-IPV-Hib, in medical shorthand).
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Caja to distribute flu vaccines next week

For 2012, the Caja acquired 313000 doses of the flu vaccine at an investment of $1.5 million, Garro said. Both José Miguel Hidalgo, director of the Caja's Bureau of Development Services, and Isabel Fernández, from the Caja's immunization program, ...
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Flu season is heating up

At the Chelsea-Clinton community health center, I ran into Luis Oliver, who came in for a check-up and the flu shot. "I'm over 50 and I try to take care of my body and listen to my doctor's advice," he said. Did he notice that anyone had the flu this ...
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CDC Warns That New Swine Flu Strain Has 'Pandemic Potential'

By Jason Koebler A paper published Tuesday by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control suggests a new swine flu virus has the potential to cause an outbreak. The A(H3N2)v swine flu strain that has infected at least 18 Americans since Sept.
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Study Examines Cost-Effectiveness of Adult Pneumococcal Vaccines

A computer-based cost-effectiveness analysis suggests that use of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) might prevent more pneumococcal disease compared with the current 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) vaccination ...
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Attractive Men Study Shows Female Lust Triggered By Macho Guys' Testosterone ...

Researchers led by Fhionna Moore of Abertay University in the United Kingdom recruited 74 Latvian men in their early 20s to give blood samples right before and one month after their first dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine. The vaccine triggers the immune ...
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Fake anti-polio drive to capture Osama

HARIPUR: The district health authorities on Tuesday sacked fifteen Lady Health Workers (LHWs) who helped Dr Shakeel Afridi and Dr Turabi in running a fake anti-polio drive to confirm the presence of the al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, ...
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Bill Gates lauds Mamata for fight against polio

KOLKATA: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has congratulated chief minister Mamata Banerjee after the state did not record a single polio case in a year. "It is with utmost pleasure that I congratulate you on achieving a year without polio, ...
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PPA dispels impression of polio vaccine being harmful

The Pakistan Pediatrics Association (PPA) on Tuesday rejected the propaganda that expired-oral polio vaccine drops can cause polio or prove fatal if administered to children, saying that they are as harmless as drinking water.
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Rick Perry Is Back in Austin Doin' Nothin', and That's Right Where ...

21 2012 at 4:04 PM ​Final Rick Perry-for-President footnote? ... or we get something potentially good that he totally screws up, like Gardasil.

Combined vaccine tied to fever-related seizures

In Denmark, the child vaccination schedule calls for a combined vaccine given at three, five and 12 months of age against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type 2, known collectively as DTap-IPV-Hib.
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Combo Pertussis Vaccine Has Low Risk of Seizure

This Danish study found an increased risk of febrile seizure on the day of first and second administration of a combined diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliovirus, and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine; the risk was not ...
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13 WTHR IndianapolisMeasles cases reach 15 in central Indiana

Measles is rare in the United States due to the widespread use of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine. "In general, when we experience measles in the United States, it's a result of an unvaccinated US resident traveling abroad or a foreign visitor ...
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In Chad, promoting immunization to fight deadly measles

By Josephine Ferreiro N'DJAMENA, Chad, 21 February 2012 – During the second phase of a measles immunization campaign, in early February, vaccinators were hard at work immunizing long lines of waiting children. Josette Bakita has brought two ...
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Indiana measles cases now up to 15

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WANE) - Indiana now has a total of 15 confirmed cases of measles, state health officials announced Tuesday. The most recently confirmed case does not pose an increased risk of spreading the disease to others, however, ...
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Is YouTube Too Big to Fail?

Consider the Supreme Court's recent and debatable prohibition of vaccine-related lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies, which many argued was a pharma ...

Study: No Significant Rise in Seizure Risk From Common Kids' Vaccine

The vaccine protects children from five life-threatening illnesses: diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b, a bacterium that causes meningitis. The study also found no association between febrile ...
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Combination Vaccine Associated With Small Increased Risk of Febrile Seizure on ...

In a study that included nearly 400000 children, receipt of the combined diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis-inactivated poliovirus-Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine was associated with an increased risk of febrile ...
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Pediatric Combo Vaccine Linked To Slight Risk Of Febrile Seizure

"Studies have reported increased risks of febrile seizures shortly after administration of whole-cell pertussis vaccine, as would be expected since the whole-cell pertussis vaccine often causes fever. The acellular [may contain cellular material but ...
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Thimerosal-free seasonal flu vaccine exhibited similar ...

To limit mercury exposure in children from all sources — including the use of ethyl mercury-containing thimerosal as a vaccine preservative — researchers ...