Daily News 2012-08-10

With no new polio cases reported in Angola, world closer to eradicating deadly ...

After being plagued by a re-emergence of the polio virus in 2005, Angola has not experienced any new cases of the crippling disease for a full year – moving the world a step closer to the final goal of global eradication, United Nations agencies ...
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Mosquito samples in D.C. reveal West Nile virus

There are more serious West Nile virus cases reported this year so far compared with any year since 2004, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately one in five infected people experience symptoms, including ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

Guide to back-to-school vaccinations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides complete lists of which vaccines kids and adults need, but here's a quick guide. Kids age 6 and ... This vaccine is only for children, because the risk of the disease disappears after age 5 ...
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Vaccinations for a healthy school year: Minute Clinic hopes to help students ...

"[Meningitis and pertussis] are more prevalent when you're around a large group of various people at a time," said Doris Harvey, manager of operations and nurse for Minute Clinic. "That's why we need to get these students vaccinated, and [it's a ...
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Lawsuit Claims New W.Va. Vaccine Rule Illegal

The two immunizations are the TDAP which is tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough; the other immunization is for meningitis according to the Kanawha County Health Department. Susan Jordan with the Kanawha County Heath Department say these are ...
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Campaign Funding Goes to Supreme Court

Mercer County health department director, Melody Rickman says there are seven cases of pertussis, or whooping cough in the county. The illness is caused by bacteria and happens in children more often. Mercer County health department director, Melody ...
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Colborne Rotary president gets unusual polio fundraiser running

in support of the Rotary International End Polio Now campaign. It is year 106 for Rotary International and year 63 for the Colborne club, Colborne member Shirley Ross said, and Clement has kicked it off with a running start. Clement's past support of ...
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Losing the war against polio

Pakistan's fight against polio was dealt another blow when a six-month-old child became the latest victim of the anti-polio vaccination campaign that till now had mostly plagued the country's tribal belt. What is most worrying is the fact that this ...
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The Express Tribune

Gardasil HPV DNA discovered in post mortem samples

A coroner investigating the unexplained death of a teenager following a Gardasil HPV vaccination has announced the disturbing finding of Gardasil HPV DNA fragments in post-mortem samples. Testimony provided by Dr. Sin Hang Lee via an international ...
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Few parents in Georgia and Augusta opt not to immunize

But that might not be due to lack of vaccination in the case of pertussis, said Ben Sloat, special populations manager for public health. “One of the interesting things that we've seen from the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) data is that ...
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Don't forget shots on back-to-school to do list

Public Health Madison and Dane County said now is a good time to make an appointment with a health care provider or at a free public health immunization clinic, because there are some cutbacks coming Oct. 1. "Federal budget cuts mean we'll only be able ...
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Washington County Offers Back to School Immunizations for Uninsured

The Washington County Department of Public Health and Environment is offering extra appointments for children who need their immunizations updated before the start of the next school year. These clinics are for school-age children who do not have ...
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Whooping cough cases up in 2012

Joshua Meyerson, medical director for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, said despite the proven effectiveness and availability of the pertussis vaccine, many people remain unvaccinated, which places them at extreme risk of contracting and ...
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State epidemiologist urges resident to watch for whooping cough

Babies are vaccinated with DTaP vaccines as infants, protecting them from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. Kightlinger said middle-school-age students should get a booster shot to extend their pertussis protection. Adults can also be immunized ...
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SaneVax Announces Medical Surprise: Gardasil(R) HPV DNA ...

Dr. Lee tested a total of 16 Gardasil(R) samples from around the world under contract with the non-profit organization SaneVax Inc. Five of the Gardasil(R) ...
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Download WHY?'s New EP, Watch The Video For The Title Track

On October 9, Why? will finally put out a full-length follow-up under the name of Mumps, etc., via Anticon/City Slang. But first, the group has a new EP to get to titled Sod In The Seed. It comes out August 14 (also via Anticon/City Slang), but you can ...
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Child dies after being given Hepatitis B vaccine

Child dies after being given Hepatitis B vaccine Sirsi (Karnataka): One more child died today due to suspected complications following administering of Hepatitis B vaccine at a local hospital, taking the toll to four in similar cases in Karnataka in ...
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Meningitis vaccine mandate for college students could get tweaked in 2013

A new state law had just taken effect, requiring virtually every college student to be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis before stepping on campus. With students from 35 states and 17 countries descending on the rural college for the spring ...
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Have Scientists Found The Cure For The Flu?

Flu infection rates fluctuate annually, but between 3000 and 49000 people died annually from the flu between 1976 and 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. health authorities recommend getting the flu vaccine annually, ...
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iScienceTimes.com

Scientists closer to beating deadly viruses

That's why the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists it as a potential "bioterrorism agent" and funds extensive work on a vaccine. Since Nipah first emerged in a 1998 outbreak among pigs and pig farmers in Southeast Asia, further ...
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Inovio influenza drugs show promise in Q2, trials ongoing for HIV, Hep C vaccines

Inovio Pharmaceuticals (AMEX:INO) said Thursday that during the second quarter, its SynCon flu vaccines achieved promising results in clinical trials, and enrollment is ongoing for its leukemia and hepatitis C vaccines. Highlights included its avian ...
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The Cordova Times - Nurse Barbara

Cordova's Public Health Nurse, Barbara Bunte, is getting the word out about a state funded immunization program - just in time for the school year and winter cold season. Diane Jeantet/The Cordova Times. Cordova's public health nurse, Barbara Bunte ...
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Ashburton girl contracts meningitis

A family member confirmed the girl had been for the MRI scan, but said the severity of the meningitis remained unknown until further tests were carried out. However, it is understood the girl was recovering well, sitting upright in her hospital bed and ...
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Doctors, CDC urge adults to get Pertussis vaccination

Growing concerns about pertussis -- more commonly known as whooping cough -- have healthcare experts recommending adults get vaccinated for it. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there were more than 27500 confirmed cases of pertussis ...
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Herpes is not the end of life

ANSWER: In around 40 percent of men who get the mumps after puberty, the virus also travels to the testicles. That results in impaired fertility in only 13 percent. Sterility almost never happens. If both testicles are infected, then sterility might be ...
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People with measles contact urged not to visit Stafford Hospital patients

RESIDENTS planning to visit friends and relatives in Stafford Hospital have been urged to stay at home if they have recently been in contact with measles. Stafford Hospital An increase in the illness across the West Midlands has prompted Mid ...
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Lawsuit claims new W.Va. vaccine rule illegal

(AP) — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is being sued by six families who claim the agency can't impose new vaccine requirements ...

Meningitis Vaccine Mandate Could Get Tweaked in 2013

The age range of the law goes well beyond the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which notes that meningitis risk is highest up to age 22 and calls for immunizations lasting ...
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Government report links thimerosal laden vaccines to neurological ...

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Katie Weisman of Coalition for SafeMinds Informs IACC of Mercury ...

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Security situation a risk to anti-polio effort: WHO

Attending the fourth meeting of the National Task Force on Polio Eradication in Pakistan, chaired by the prime minister, Dr Alwan said he was encouraged by the number of polio cases this year (29), compared to last year (71), according a statement ...
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The Express Tribune

British Website Asked to Remove Content

In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, for the very first time, raised questions over the ... Since then, Andrew Wakefield was barred from practicing medicine as he ...

Rethinking Rules on Meningitis Vaccination Mandate

Mike Dreith, the former president of Western Texas College in Snyder, remembers early 2012 as a period of sleepless nights. A new state law had just taken effect, requiring virtually every college student to be vaccinated against bacterial meningitis ...
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Whooping cough is here

The Centers for Disease Control is looking into the possibility that vaccine protection wanes more quickly than once thought. That jibes with Crowder's observations, who said the bulk of Walla Walla's cases involve vaccinated adolescents. If true ...
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What you need to know about the 2012/2013 flu vaccine

Flu vaccine is arriving in medical offices, clinics and hospitals around the country. The Centers for Disease Control recommends that you receive flu vaccine as soon as it is available in your community. Families can now choose between the nasal (live ...
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Illuminations on immunisation

The symposium, moderated by Dr Michael Hodin, Executive Director of the Global Coalition on Ageing, addressed the topic, 'Adult Immunisation: A Central Driver of Prevention and Wellness'. The session highlighted the importance of adult vaccination and, ...
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Irish Medical Times

HN: National Immunisation Commission decision-makers linked to vaccine ...

Prague, Aug 9 (CTK) - Some members of the National Immunisation Commission who make decisions on obligatory vaccination covered by health insurance in the Czech Republic are at the same time receiving orders from vaccine producers, the daily ...
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Breaking News: Gardasil HPV DNA discovered in post-mortem samples

Dr. Lee's pathology report indicates that Gardasil® material was lodging in tissue and may have been causing health problems. The fact that Gardasil® DNA fragments were suspended in post-mortem blood—and six months post vaccination—indicates there ...
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British website required to stop autism-MMR claims

A British vaccine-related website was recently ordered to remove a claim that the MMR vaccine is related to cases of autism. Babyjabs.co.uk, a promoter of single vaccines, said that the MMR, which includes vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, could ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

Government report links thimerosal laden vaccines to neurological ...

(NaturalNews) A government report published in 2003 acknowledges a direct link between vaccines containing Thimerosal and Neurodevelopmental disorders in children. For those who may not be familiar with thimerosal, it is an ...
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Anti-P3 polio drive in September: EDO

KARACHI - Following emergence of polio's P3-wild category in localities of the metropolis, additional vaccines for P3 polio virus would be administered during the immunization campaign in Karachi, officials said. EDO Health Karachi Imdad Ullah Siddiqui ...
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Waziristan parents bring children to polio immunisations

PESHAWAR – Rejecting the Taliban's threats against polio immunisation in North and South Waziristan, parents have begun bringing their children to vaccination centres in the nearby districts of Dera Ismail Khan, Tank and Bannu, an official said.
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Three polio cases detected in Jhang

Three polio cases were reportedly detected during a survey conducted by a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Pir Kot Sadhana union council, Athara Hazari tehsil, Jhang district. Among those who tested positive are seven-year-old Nighat Bibi, ...
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The Express Tribune

Anti-polio drive: need for awareness

APART from the Taliban ban on the anti-polio campaign in Waziristan, another great hindrance in achieving the goal of polio eradication is an extreme lack of awareness in the rural areas of Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa. People of small towns have many ...
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Your Health: Back To School Checklist

"They (pediatricians) can identify and problems with growth or developmental problems, as well as catch up on any immunizations they might have missed," said Faith Lustik from Jefferson County Public Health. Immunizations can be confusing: the shots ...
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Whooping cough on rise in Maricopa

Although pertussis surges every three to five years as a general rule, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the increase in reported cases both state and countywide is still notable for the rapidity in which it occurred and its ...
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InMaricopa.com

Just 6 years later, HPV vaccine may already provide herd immunity

Many well-established vaccines are needlessly controversial, but a recently developed vaccine that targets the human papilloma virus (HPV) has some properties that caused unusual amounts of public discomfort. The vaccine itself doesn't actually prevent ...
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Huth diagnosed with mildest form of meningitis

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2012 file picture Stoke City's Robert Huth from Germany, left, heads the ball with Valencia's Mehmet Topal from Turkey, right,during the second leg of their Europa League round of 32 soccer match at the Mestalla stadium in ...
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Family of first amebic meningitis victim speaks

STILLWATER, Minn. - The deaths of 9-year-old Jack Erenberg, of Forest Lake, and 7-year-old Annie Bahneman, of Stillwater, mirror one another, even though they died two years apart. Both children went swimming at Lily Lake in Stillwater, and both fell ...
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Whooping cough cases increase in Vermont

Three infants have been hospitalized with confirmed or probable whooping cough, also called pertussis, since June 1, officials said. ''Anyone who has a persistent cough should be evaluated by his or her health care provider,'' said Dr. Breena Holmes ...
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Goodwill ambassador: First to be vaccinated, Aseefa vows to eradicate polio

Speaking about the misconceptions regarding the polio campaign in Pakistan, especially the religious opposition, Aseefa said that polio eradication campaigns have faced such challenges in other countries, such as Nigeria and pushed the programme back ...
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The Express Tribune

MMR Vaccine does not Cause Autism, says study

The website, which has blamed the MMR vaccine, has further claimed that experts have found strains of measles in the guts and brains of children suffering from autism. Nor only this, the website has also alleged that increased diagnosis is one of the ...
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TopNews United States

Measles warning for cancer patients

The Ministry of Health is urging parents to immunise children against measles by highlighting the impact of last year's outbreak on kids with cancer. Associate health minister Jo Goodhew, who launched two publications at Starship Children's Hospital ...
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Health Officials Stress Importance of Vaccinations

Health officials and organizers from around the State of Illinois are partnering up ... the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (ICAAP), ...

Parents urged to get whooping cough vaccine

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are now urging parents to get vaccinated for pertussis, better known as whooping cough. It is a rapidly spreading and potentially fatal, airborne disease that adults most often spread to children. 95% of ...
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GenVec's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

There is no approved vaccine for HSV-2 and the estimated cost of treating HSV-2 in the United States alone are close to $1 billion, primarily for drugs and outpatient medical care. These drugs only address a subset of the afflicted population and do ...
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Soccer-Stoke's German defender Huth has suspected meningitis

LONDON Aug 8 (Reuters) - Stoke City defender Robert Huth has suspected meningitis and is awaiting the outcome of hospital checks, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. "The German international is due to undergo further tests to determine the ...
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HPV Vaccine May Protect You, Even If You Don't Get The Shot

Vaccine, Video, HPV Recommendations, Hpv, Hpv Vaccination, Human Papillomavirus, What Is HPV?, Women News. Hpv Vaccine. The HPV vaccine doesn't just help prevent infection among women who get the shot. It may also protect those who don't.
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Coroner inquest and HPV vaccine – expert ... - Science Media Centre

The family has told the coroner they believe the death is linked to the Gardasil vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) that Ms Renata received six months earlier, and today testimony from overseas witnesses providing health-related ...
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Mobile Immunization Blitz will help provide protection for children

“Our immunization rates in Prince Albert Parkland Health Region are lower than recommended and certainly that means a lot of our children are unprotected from vaccine preventable diseases,” says Sandy Heidel, a public health nurse with the health ...
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Science magazine spotlights polio eradication, Rotary's role

The 3 August issue of Science magazine features two articles on polio eradication – “The Polio Emergency” and “Fighting Polio in Pakistan” – and includes several references to Rotary's role. The full articles are available online to subscribers only or ...
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Anti-polio campaign Aseefa to convince reluctant families

Islamabad—Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that eradication of polio from Pakistan was one of the missions of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, which she carried out with singular passion and worked tirelessly throughout her life for ...
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