Daily News 2012-08-14

vnewsPaul Offit finally gets it about vaccine exemptions – Medscape by The Refusers

Government Report: Vaccines, Mercury and Neurological Disorders Linked - SaneVax

Your Child Does NOT Have To Be Vaccinated To Attend School, Here’s Why… by Jennifer Hutchinso - Vactruth

Vaccines Don't Make You Healthy - Dr. Sherri Tenpenny talks about vaccines and says that there's no vaccine that is necessary. in fact she says all vaccines are useless. (video)

HSE plans 'catch-up' MMR vaccine campaign

Law requires new vaccine for Illinois students

FDA approves new flu vaccine for 2012-2013 season

RE: AB 2109 (Pan) Communicable disease: immunization exemption (pdf)

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - Confidentiality of Your Child’s Vaccination Records Schools may NOT disclose the vaccination record of your child, even to the Department of Health, unless in a narrowly defined emergency situation.

From the Editor: Normativity - Age of Autism

Sanofi gets US FDA OK for talking injection device - Sanofi has received US FDA approval for auto-injector that gives audio and visual cues to assist in the injection process.

It's unknown whether influenza vaccine helps the elderly (video)

FLU NEWS SCAN: Flu guide for fairs, Ohio H3N2 cases, seasonal flu vaccines approved, H5N1 vaccine response

Study: Fear of needles could hamper flu vaccinations - Target releases results of online study

New Study: Hepatitis B Vaccine Damages The Liver

Technological Landscapes: Therapeutic Vaccines Target Malaria - Lexington-based Agenus Inc., a biotechnology company that develops therapeutic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases is a major contributor to the war on malaria.

A Vaccine for Heart Disease? - Most people probably know that heart disease remains the nation’s No. 1 killer. But what many may be surprised to learn is that cholesterol has a major accomplice in causing dangerous arterial plaque buildup that can trigger a heart attack. The culprit? Inflammatory cells produced by the immune system.

NEWS SCAN: Dallas-area West Nile deaths reach 10, cantaloupe Listeria probe

Roche Worker Sues For Whistleblowing & Firin by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

Docs Want Drugmakers To Do What? by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

UK overhauls drug laws with new Human Medicines Regulations - New Human Medicines Regulations came into effect this morning, overhauling the UK's regulations on drug manufacturing, importation, distribution, packaging and pharmacovigilance.

Technological Landscapes: Therapeutic Vaccines Target Malaria - Lexington-based Agenus Inc., a biotechnology company that develops therapeutic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases is a major contributor to the war on malaria.

Whooping cough serious, treatable

1 there have been 144 confirmed cases of Pertussis (whooping cough) this year in the State of Kansas. The recommended pertussis vaccine for infants and children is called DTaP. This is a combination vaccination that protects against three diseases: ...
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Pertussis Case in Umatilla County

Umatilla County Public Health Department has confirmed another case of Pertussis, more commonly known as "Whooping Cough". The child was diagnosed at the beginning of the month and attended a drop-in summer reading program at the Pendleton ...
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Pittsburgh's Immunization Initiatives - Friday Letter Home - ASPH

LATEST FROM SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH ... School of Public Health, was able to outline effective strategies when designing immunization campaigns.
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Sussex County confirms additional measles cases

Sussex has more cases of measles than any county in the nation other than Merseyside. Brighton and Hove experienced 186 reported cases this year while East Sussex has 88 cases and West Sussex has 40 cases. Through all of 2011, the county reported ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

FDA Approves Vaccine Formulation for the 2012-2013 Influenza Season

Each year experts from the FDA, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other public health experts study influenza virus samples and global disease patterns to identify virus strains likely to cause the ...
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HealthNewsDigest.com

WVAS Local News

The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the new flu vaccine for the season beginning this year. This year's vaccine has one strain in common with last year's vaccine, plus two new viral strains. According to the Centers for Disease ...
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PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative Names Eminent Malaria Scientists and ...

Dr. Baylor served as FDA's liaison to the US Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the US Department of Health and Human Services National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Commission on Childhood ...
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FDA approves new flu vaccine for 2012-2013 season

Each year the FDA works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to design a vaccine to protect against the three viral strains most likely to cause the flu in the upcoming year. This year's ...
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Maternal Health - Abia Hinges Success On Revitalisation of PHCs

Pointing out that the state did not limit its efforts to building facilities alone, Ogah said the state has done also well in child and maternal health, family planning and immunisation and diagnosis which remain a major problem in healthcare in the ...
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Meningitis law for college students could see revisions

"It's our belief that students who are going to a community college and are not living in a dorm situation probably don't need a meningitis shot," Ellen Green with Amarillo College said. Since Amarillo College doesn't have dorm rooms, Green feels the ...
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HPV vaccine - Sex and Sensibility

Tag Archive: HPV vaccine. Aug 13 ... LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Twitter. Tags: condom use, HIV, HPV vaccine, Truvada · Leave comment. Permanent link to this ...
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Study: Should young males receive HPV vaccine?

Vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV) have shown they can prevent the disease, but many countries do not have the resources for national vaccination ...
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HPV Vaccination Part Five: Risks versus Benefits

There have been 110 deaths reported after HPV vaccinations, both Gardasil & Cervarix. In total 25132 adverse reactions since these vaccines were introduced.
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Low Cost Back-to-School vaccines offered

Vaccines such as Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis), chicken pox, meningitis and MMR (mumps, measles, and rubella) will be available so that school-aged children, 18 years of age and under, can be up-to-date with their shots for the start of school.
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Call for evidence to support HPV immunisation programme review

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is calling for evidence to support a review of possible modifications to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme. The programme currently provides the offer of immunisation ...
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Wakefield Libel Suit Rejected

A Texas judge has dismissed the defamation suit filed by Andrew Wakefield, MBBS, against BMJ and two individuals, the journal reported Monday. Judge Amy Clark Meachum, hearing the case in Travis County, Texas, ruled that her court had no jurisdiction ...
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MedPage Today

Website Must Remove Misleading Vaccine-Autism Claims

My teenage son Charlie was diagnosed with autism in 1999, the year after Dr. Andrew Wakefield had published his infamous Lancet study linking the MMR vaccine to autism. Often it has seemed that this issue has dominated the mention of autism in the ...
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Sydney schools on disease alert

Dr Stephen Conaty, the SWSLHD's public health director, said the measles outbreak came from Thailand and most of those affected have been of Pacific Islander descent. Dr Conaty said this was because people may have moved to Australia between their ...
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Pakistan's Measles Deaths Hinder Global Goals

Shah blamed unsettled conditions caused by Taliban militancy as well as poor public awareness of the value of vaccination for the outbreak of measles in the seven agencies and six border regions that make up the FATA and in adjacent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
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Hep C vaccine breakthrough

Hepatitis C affects around 200 million people around the world and has a great ability to change its structure and evade the immune response, making it hard to create a vaccine against the disease. But the new vaccine only contains the most essential, ...
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Major Breakthrough in Hepatitis C Vaccine Development

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the Burnet Institute have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which, once developed could be the first ever preventative vaccine for the virus. Currently undergoing formal ...
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Fantasia 2012 Review: The Viral Factor (Directed by Dante Lam)

Coincidently, the mastermind behind the Smallpox strain happens to be the very agent (played by Andy On) who set him up- meaning he's got a chance at payback before checking out. Chou's character is a pretty traditional HK hero- being righteous, and ...
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JoBlo.com

Whooping cough cases in Maine on the upswing

Dr. Sheila Pinette, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, says most cases early this year were in children, but now an increasing number of adults over 40 are coming down with the contagious disease, also known as pertussis. She tells the ...
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Whooping cough vaccine: how well is it working?

However, pertussis infections in all age groups are once again on the increase globally. Australia recorded 38000 cases in 2011, the highest number since records began in 1991 and most states are only now recovering from a major epidemic that began in ...
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ABC Online

Cumbrian students told to get MMR jab

It's an attempt to prevent mumps, measles and rubella spreading through campuses. Cumbria NHS say some young people starting courses this autumn have probably not been immunised against the illnesses which can have serious complications, ...
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ITV News

STONE: To Vaccinate or not to vaccinate

Thimerosal, a preservative used in vaccines to prevent bacterial and fungal ... A suggested link between mercury-containing thimerosal and autism prompted ...

Strain cautions citizens to prepare for Influenza Season

9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting a total of 153 humans infected with H3N2v which is a variant of the respiratory disease caused by Type A influenza viruses. One (1) case of the virus has been detected in Hawaii, one ...
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Schedule Tdap vaccine

Several outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough) happened last school year among Illinois children – a two- to three-fold increase, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC also reports recent outbreaks in Washington ...
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Doctors recommend Whooping Cough vaccine for all

LA CROSSE, WI (WXOW)-- The Centers for Disease Control said number of cases of Pertussis, better know as whooping cough, is rising at epidemic rates. Dr. Steven Manson, Gundersen Lutheran Pediatrician said this is the largest outbreak in the last 50 ...
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Measles outbreak now hits the 20 mark in St Helens

THE largest measles outbreak on Merseyside since 1988 has seen 20 people in St Helens struck down with the condition since the start of the year. In figures issued by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), St Helens is the fourth highest in the region ...
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One Year Without Polio - Angola's Success Story

August 10 2012 marked a milestone in Angola. It was the day the Southern African country recorded one year without report of a single new case of wild polio virus. By extrapolation, the country could be said to have moved a step closer towards ...
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Alzheimer's Biomarkers; Statins And Diabetes Risk; Hepatitis A Vaccine Lasts ...

From Atlanta - Researchers followed nearly 200 infants and toddlers in the US receiving a two dose inactivated hepatitis A vaccine. They found that ten years after receiving their second dose of vaccine, most of the children still had antibodies for ...
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Monmouth County Jail On Lockdown, Chickenpox To Blame

The Monmouth County jail is on lockdown following two reported chicken pox cases, according to the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office. The lockdown began Sunday after a consultation with the jail's medical team. It will remain until Tuesday, when ...
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Chicken Pox Cases Put Monmouth County Jail on Lockdown

The Monmouth County Correctional Institution is on lockdown following two reported chicken pox cases, according to a press release issued by the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Shaun Golden and Warden Brian Elwood instituted the lockdown on ...
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Monmouth County Jail on lockdown after 2 inmates diagnosed with chickenpox

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — The Monmouth County Jail has been placed on lockdown after two inmates were diagnosed with chickenpox, officials said. According to a news release from the Monmouth County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Shaun Golden and ...
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Polio case detected in Charsadda

District health communication officer Mohammad Yasir told Dawn on Monday that the polio sufferer was 19-month-old girl Safeena, who belonged to Dir district and currently lived in Takya Korona Muftiabad area with her family. He said the girl was ...
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Polio campaign in Islamabad 6000 children missed out

ISLAMABAD, Aug 13: World Health Organisation said on Monday that the recent polio immunization campaign had missed out 6000 children in the city. “The figure has been derived from the authenticated control room data of polio cell of the ICT and the ...
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About the HPV vaccine

The vaccine, Gardasil, works by preventing four common HPV types, two that cause most genital warts and two that cause cancers. It protects against new HPV infections. It does not cure existing HPV infections or diseases like genital warts. It is most ...
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Study: Should young males receive HPV vaccine? - DrBicuspid Oral ...

August 13, 2012 -- Vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV) have shown they can prevent the disease, but many countries do not have the resources for ...
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New HPV vaccine approved in Scotland | News | Nursing Times

A different type of vaccine will be used to protect teenage girls against a virus which can cause cervical cancer and genital warts, the Scottish government ...
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How to prevent cervical cancer

Although it has had its fair share of controversy since it debuted in 2006, the HPV vaccine has been proven to dramatically reduce teen girls' and young women's chances of getting the HPV and the abnormal growths that lead to cervical cancer. “Women ...
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gulfnews.com

What's Going Around: Pink Eye, enterovirus meningitis

Some of the patients have been diagnosed with enterovirus meningitis. While others have been diagnosed with just a fever. Symptoms going along with the temperature include fatigue, loss of appetite, and headaches. If you have or your child has a ...
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Children between 11 and 12 should be vaccinated against human ...

It's the vaccine against human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted ... In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending HPV as a ...

It may be chicken pox 'hidden' in your tum since childhood

Chicken pox 'hidden' in our guts since childhood could be behind the thousands of cases of unexplained stomach pain and bloating in adulthood. New research suggests this 'intestinal' chicken pox could even trigger stomach ulcers. Scientists have known ...
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Daily Mail

Aseefa for engaging private schools, hospitals

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's Polio Ambassador Aseefa Bhutto Zardari chaired the polio review meeting with ICT and CDA officials here requesting the officials to engage private schools and hospitals to achieve better coverage targets. In a meeting with ICT ...
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The Nation

HSE plans 'catch-up' MMR vaccine campaign

A CATCH-UP MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) immunisation campaign is being planned by the Health Service Executive (HSE) due to an increase in the number of measles cases. Details have yet to be finalised but it is believed the once-off campaign ...
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Umatilla County Public Health Department confirms another case of pertussis

Sneezing, runny nose, low-grade fever, and mild coughing progress to severe coughing. Some victims have episodes of rapid coughing followed by a high-pitched whoop as they take a deep breath. However, not everyone with Pertussis has such a cough, ...
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The Doctor's Videos - The Gardasil & Cervarix Vaccine

This is an informative video on the Gardasil vaccine, as well as the Cervarix vaccine, both of ...
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Is gardasil a good vaccine to get? - Yahoo! Answers

my doctor reccomended it and i got the first dose and i looked it up online and i ... Yeah...um...... by the time my friend got her third does, she got these little wart ...
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Dr Andrew Wakefield is suing Brian Deer and BMJ's Fiona Godlee for ...

It would be a great pity if Deer and Godlee were never to be brought to court for their allegations. Any court would do, US or UK!! But funding is at the...
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Major Breakthrough in Hep C Vaccine Development

Researchers at the Burnet Institute have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which, once developed could be the first ever preventative vaccine for the virus. Currently undergoing formal preclinical studies, the vaccine is the result of breakthrough ...
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ThirdAge

Yarra Ranges Council survey reveals immunisation concerns

Yarra Ranges Council's immunisation team says results from an online survey have so far revealed that 39 per cent of people have concerns about immunisation. The survey also revealed close to half of the respondents used their GP while the others used ...
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Fair Oaks Couple Immunize Children in India

Before travelling to India earlier this year, longtime Fair Oaks resident Fred Rowe knew very little about polio, even though he'd been an emergency room physician for more than 20 years. “That's because you don't see polio in the United States anymore ...
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NEWS SCAN: Angola interrupts polio, anaplasmosis rises in Maine

Angola reaches polio interruption milestone. Angola has gone a year without reporting a new polio case, an important milestone in the global fight against the disease, according to an Aug 10 statement from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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CIDRAP

New Health Radio Show Covers Major Issues: Dr. Mayer Eisenstein ...

When vaccines can be produced without these ingredients, why are they doing this? Well, it defies logic." But mercury was on most people minds and signs, ...

Alan L. Jennings: Health board vote steps back to 19th century

The new majority on the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners last week killed the decades-long campaign to extend critical public health services to all residents in our two counties (Lehigh and Northampton). I won't go into a long account of the many ...
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Posted: August 13, 2012 - 3:00 pm ET

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is touting a patient- and parent-focused website that Indiana public health officials developed to promote access to immunization records and is promising to promote similar ...
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Lexington health department encourages pertussis vaccination as school year ...

As Fayette County students prepare to return to school, the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department urges parents to make sure their kids are properly vaccinated against pertussis. Pertussis, or “whooping cough,” is a highly contagious respiratory ...
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KyForward.com

New law requires Ill. students to get vaccinated

The law being put into effect for the 2012-13 school year requires students to get the Tdap vaccine, a booster shot against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. "Getting the vaccine is one of the biggest ways to prevent ...
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HPV Vaccine Vital to Prevent Cervical Cancer

In order to get vaccination against HPV, it is necessary that girls should have permission of their parents, as only then doctors can provide vaccination. Experts said that in order to take off the risk, girls are suggested to get vaccinated at an ...
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TopNews United States

Back-to-school vaccine clinic is Tuesday

Vaccines will be available for all childhood and school-required immunizations, as well as meningococcal and HPV vaccines for adolescents. There is a $15 administrative fee per child, which will be waived for children who present valid BadgerCare ...
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Back to school: Time for new notebooks, shoes and shots

Or do you have a baby in your family who can't get the vaccine, but needs protection from the potentially deadly disease? According to the Centers for Disease Control, pertussis (whooping cough) is dangerous for infants, and can be easy to misdiagnose.
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New flu vaccine announced for winter season

The 2011 flu vaccine was identical to the one produced for 2010, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still advised everyone to get their annual vaccination since immunization can wane over time. By “everyone,” the government means all ...
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FDA approves flu vaccine for coming season

This year's vaccine has one strain in common with last year's vaccine, plus two new viral strains. The vaccine will be manufactured by six companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and Novartis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department Out of Required Tdap, Meningitis ...

The Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department is currently out of the required Tdap and Meningitis vaccines for the clinic Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., according to a news release from the West Virginia Public Health Alert System. Officials said they ...
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Cabell County Schools Show Leniency in School Immunizations

Both must have a Dtap vaccine, which guards against diptheria, pertussis and tetanus. In addition to that, seventh graders need the meningitis vaccine. Twelfth graders must also have a meningitis booster. “It's a very serious diseases and often with a ...
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NJ Jail Locked Down Over Chickenpox Outbreak

A New Jersey correctional facility is on lockdown after two cases of chickenpox were reported among inmates, officials said. The lockdown was implemented at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution Sunday to ensure the health of the inmate ...
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BACK TO SCHOOL: Immunizations

If a student first enters the EVSC between third and fifth grade, 1 varicella (chicken pox) vaccine is adequate until grade 6. Children in sixth through 12th grades, in EVSC schools, must have received in addition to the above: A second varicella ...
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Vaccinations Required for School Attendance

... Mumps and Rubella (MMR) 1 dose 2 doses of measles-containing vaccine and 1 ... American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, ...

Major Breakthrough in Hepatitis C Vaccine Development

13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Researchers at the Burnet Institute have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which, once developed could be the first ever preventative vaccine for the virus. Currently undergoing formal preclinical studies, the ...
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