Daily News 2012-09-12

CBS star reporter spanks 'Dr. Vaccine' Dr. Paul Offit and is now under attack

Vaccines Are Perfectly Safe, Right? (video)

Should The HPV Vaccine Be Mandatory?

The Common Cold Treated as Fearful: Vaccine Is Coming - It’s obviously madness to consider yet another vaccine for anyone, let alone newborns. Yet, that’s precisely what’s in the works: a vaccination for the common cold, which is being treated as a devastating disease and the cause of asthma.

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Announcing UK Government Considering Mandatory Whooping Cough Vaccine For Newborns by Christina England- Vactruth

Vaccines: Final Nail in HIV Coffin?

Gaming the flu: How we decide to get vaccinated, or not

Analysis of Immune Responses in Patients Treated With Vacc-4x Supports Further Development

Banner requires flu vaccinations for all workers, volunteers - McKee, NCMC join Poudre Valley in mandatory prevention

Teen vaccination efforts fall short

Health care workers to be required to get flu shot

Hope for Millions. Experimental vaccine for Dengue shows promise

Health officials highlight mumps jabs

Thousands of ‘back to school’ youngsters at risk of measles

Should alternative medicine be taught in medical schools?

Sanofi to outline research shakeup shortly - union - French research shakeup plans expected late Sept, early Oct

Understanding the Good Bacteria in Our Skin (video)

Reconstructed 1918 Influenza Virus Has Yielded Key Insights, Scientists Say

Pawsitive Thoughts: Protect your pet with annual vaccines and a microchip

Predatory publishers are corrupting open access - Journals that exploit the author-pays model damage scholarly publishing and promote unethical behaviour by scientists, argues Jeffrey Beall.

30 stunning facts they don't want you to know about Gardasil and HPV vaccines

Are Drug Pipelines Really Getting Better? by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

Drive-thru flu vaccinations offered

Hazelwood Subway Provides Proof of Hep A Vaccinations & Food Safety Course Enrollment

How Agencies Plan to Survive Pharmageddon - As Drugs Fall Off Patent Cliff, Agencies Are Rethinking Health Care With New Practices, Approaches

FG To Spend N1.6bn On Anti-

Dr Ado Mohammed, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, says the Federal Government will spend N1.6 billion on the MenAfriVac immunisation campaign. Mohammed said this in Abuja on Wednesday during a ...
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Health provider up for national excellence

Sarah Bailey, portfolio lead for children at ACE, said: “The main reason for our shortlisting is our exceptional performance in HPV vaccination, in which we have been recognised as the top performing organisation in the country. We are delighted just ...
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Toronto Public Health Expands HPV Vaccine Program

Right now grade 8 girls throughout Toronto and Ontario are provided free vaccines for the Human Papillomavirus, but Toronto Public Health has announced that it is broadening the base for the free vaccines. “Girls that are in high school and two years ...
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Cervical Cancer Vaccine

If you have already contracted HPV, the vaccine is no longer effective so it's very important to get the vaccine before any sexual activity. The controversy with the vaccine lies not in it's effectiveness but because it protects against a sexually ...
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STATE: Vaccine sense

Public health officials aim for an immunization rate of at least 90 percent of students to help ward off outbreaks of such illnesses. All but 5 percent of the state's public schools met that mark, but about 15 percent of the 1,650 private schools the ...
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MTSU halts bus service in wake of meningitis scare

MURFREESBORO — In response to employee concerns, MTSU briefly halted its campus bus service this morning to allow drivers to visit Campus Health Services for consultations in the wake of Monday's suspected case of bacterial meningitis. Ron Malone ...
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Student death prompts meningitis worry

The 18-year-old died suddenly on Monday, and health officials believe it's from a highly contagious form of bacterial meningitis. Dr. Lisa Ousley heads ETSU's student health care services. "It's highly infectious," she explained. "Because of how ...
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Middlesex County Announces Flu & Pneumonia Vaccine Clinics

MIDDLESEX COUNTY – The Middlesex County Office of Health Services will offer 17 seasonal Influenza and Pneumococcal (pneumonia) clinics at sites throughout ...

Mumps cases see 'dramatic rise' in Isle of Man

Dr Kishore said: "People over the age of 40 are likely to have had mumps infection and hence are immune; younger children are offered the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine which protects them against all three". Continue reading the main story ...
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EMS student sent home with possible case of mumps

There is a case of what symptoms indicate to be mumps at the Emporia Middle School. The student is now at home. School nurse Erica Miller examined the student and sent what was gleaned from the examination to the Kansas Department of Health and ...
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Flu Vaccine Guidelines For Children and Caregivers

The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) state that the, “The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the season: an influenza A (H1N1) virus, an influenza A (H3N2) ...
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American Academy of Pediatrics Michigan Chapter urges parents to vaccinate ...

Physicians at the American Academy of Pediatrics Michigan Chapter (MIAAP) are urging families and parents to have their children vaccinated against pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, and other infectious diseases with dangerous outbreaks ...
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Campaign against measles in Equator province

DR Congo launches campaign against measles in Equator province - DR Congo authorities on Tuesday launched an immunization campaign against measles in 6 health zones out of the 19 affected by the disease in the Equator province in the north-east of ...
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Thousands of 'back to school' youngsters at risk of measles

More than 8800 Brighton and Hove children and teenagers will be at risk of measles as they start school and college this month, Dr Tom Scanlon, the city's director of public health, has warned. “Around 4200 five to 11-year-olds and about 4600 secondary ...
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Letter of the week

While it is true that in 1999 US health authorities and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be removed from vaccines as a "precautionary ...

Vaccinate Horses Against West Nile Virus, Veterinarians Say

new_asset_attachment_attributes. Though the Centers for Disease Control reported last week that more than 40 people have died across the country this year from West Nile virus (WNV), many horse owners can breath a little easier — the equine vaccines ...
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STAC Advising Blog » Gardasil

SHS will offer the initial human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, free of charge to students, faculty, and staff. HPV vaccinations are recommended for ...
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Polio: FG discovers 913 Kano communities without immunisation

The Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr. Ado Muhammad, said over 913 settlements whose residents have not received immunisation against poliomyelitis for the past 10 years have been discovered in Kano State.
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Rubella cases in Japan monitored

Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Department of Health (DH) is monitoring an increase in the number of rubella cases in Japan and is offering appropriate health advice to travellers and members of the public. A spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection ...
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Nigeria Not On Track to Achieving Polio Eradication - WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said Nigeria was not on track in the effort to eradicate wild polio virus before the end of December this year. Dr Bruce Alyward, WHO Assistant Director-General, Polio, Emergencies and Country ...
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20000 girls to get vaccine against cervical cancer virus

Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan, second from right, is congratulated by permanent secretary in the Ministry Antonia Popplewell, during the HPV vaccination campaign launch at the ministry's head office, Park Street, Port-of-Spain yesterday. Also in the ...
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Few parents of Tulare County public and private school children are opting out ...

There are two exceptions, Three Rivers, with 81 percent and the Palo Verde Elementary District with 76 percent, according to data from the California Department of Public Health. This year, every student was required by the state to have their ...
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Flu Vaccinations Now Available

... pneumonia vaccinations to the general public. The vaccine is available by appointment only at the Health Department's Immunizations Annex at 2303 Dodge Avenue in Waukegan. ... Public health officials recommend that everyone six months of age and ...
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Public health and HIEs: IIS integration

Immunization Information Systems (IIS) have been around for many years. Almost every state in the Union has one. Given the maturity of these systems, it is not surprising that most of them pre-date the HIE movement. In fact, many of them have evolved ...
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Immunization-exemption rates on rise among Arizona schoolchildren

State law requires public-school children to have immunization records on file, but it does not mandate that students be vaccinated with immunizations recommended by public-health officials. "There is no incentive to protect the school," Braga said ...
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Pfizer's Prevenar 13 gets shot in arm with WHO approval

Pfizer ($PFE), which has big expectations for its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, got a boost toward its goals with a prequalification from the World Health ...

Sanofi Pasteur and Actor Chris O'Donnell Launch Fluzone® Intradermal ...

Sanofi Pasteur and Actor Chris O'Donnell Launch Fluzone® Intradermal (Influenza Virus Vaccine) VacciNation Tour to Raise Awareness About Importance of Annual Flu Shot and Vaccine Options for Adults ... Despite a recommendation by the Centers for ...
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Ndola Measles Campaign Logistics in Place

Dr Nyendwa confirmed that the Ndola Health District Office (NDH) had so far trained 20 supervisors and 190 implementors to manage the measles immunisation campaign. The measles immunisation campaign starts on September 10 until the 15th of the ...
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Hepatitis B vaccine is effective for up to 15 yearsLess than 1 hour ago

Nearly all children who received three doses of hepatitis B vaccine achieved immunity, but about 20% fell below the protective antibody threshold by year 15, Canadian researchers reported on Monday at the 52nd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobials ...
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World Health Organization Grants Expansion To The Prequalification ...

The FINANCIAL -- Pfizer announced that the World Health Organization has granted an expansion to the prequalification of Pfizer's pneumococcal conjugate ...

Chicken pox outbreak forces school closures in southern Malawi

Chicken pox is a viral infection in which a person develops extremely itchy blisters all over the body, according to the Public Health website. It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, a member of the herpes virus family. The same virus also causes ...
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WHO Prequalifies Pfizer' Pneumococcal Vaccine For Adults

... Tuesday said the World Health organization or WHO granted an expansion of its pre-qualification for vaccine against pneumococcal diseases to include ...

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Polio Eradication: Expert scores Nigeria low on fighting scourge

The global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organisation says Nigeria is not on track to achieve eradication of polio despite the adequate tools and capacity to reverse the rising trends. An official of the global body, Doctor Bruce ...
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Campaign hopes to raise awareness of meningitis symptoms

THE father of a York teenager whose meningitis went undiagnosed for a week when she was a baby is urging parents to learn the symptoms of the disease as part of a national campaign. Kym Houlston, 15, was only eight months old when she began ...
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Marquette University officials warn of mumps exposure at Union Sports annex

MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) - Marquette University officials say any student who was at the Union Sports annex between 3 and 11 p.m. last Tuesday should monitor their own health symptoms until the end of the month. One student at the university has been ...
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Health officials highlight mumps jabs

Parents and young people are being reminded of the importance of the MMR vaccination following an increase in the number of cases of mumps in young adults in Airedale and Bradford. Latest figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) reveal there ...
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More parents opting out of required immunizations

The unprotected children — who also endanger their parents, siblings, teachers, staff and everyone they come in contact with — can slide by despite state and federal law requiring vaccinations to prevent deadly diseases such as measles, polio ...
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AAP: Children as young as 6 months old should get flu vaccine

The American Academy of Pediatrics is releasing updated recommendations for flu ... She says this year's vaccine has been tailored to combat, what health ...
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mHealth initiative to benefit Cantabrians

Vensa Health's TXT2Remind practice-patient messaging system allows GPs to deliver appointment, screening and immunisation reminders as well as key health messages direct to the patient via text message and interactive mobile content delivery.
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Reibold Building - Public Health Clinic to resume Immunization and ...

Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County will resume immunization and TB services at the Reibold Building, 117 S. Main Street, on Tuesday, September ...
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Motorway police take part in polio drive

Islamabad—National Highways & Motorway Police arranged Polio immunization program along with Ministry of Health at Motorway Main Toll Plaza Islamabad. On this occasion several children were vaccinated who were traveling along with their parents on ...
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Polio awareness drive launched

Karachi—The students of Greenwich University in collaboration with Traffic Police, Sindh, and Rotary club has launched a three-day campaign to raise awareness regarding road safety and polio immunization in various areas of Karachi. An official of the ...
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Anti-polio drive: Pak-Afghan boxers unite to raise polio awareness

A two-day Pak-Afghan Knock-Out Polio Boxing Matches event was organised in the Chaman sub-division of Qilla Abdullah district in Balochistan on September 8 and 9 to raise awareness among the local communities on the benefits of polio immunisation.
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Nigeria Not On Track to Eradicate Polio - WHO

The assistant director-general, World Health Organisation, polio, emergency and country collaboration, Dr Bruce Alyward, has said that the country is not on track to achieve its polio eradication goal on time. He said that the increasing cases of wild ...
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MTSU mourns one student, seeks to protect others after apparent meningitis death

People leave the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Fraternity house Monday, the day that Jacob Nunley, 18, died of what is being investigated as a possible meningitis case at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Nunley was a member of the fraternity and lived ...
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First dengue vaccine clinical trial finds low efficacy

Five severe dengue infections were reported, three in the vaccine group and two in the control group. The team found little difference in adverse events ...

Shot in the arm

Maribyrnong City Council will introduce a new and improved childhood immunisation service from 1 October that will offer local families more flexibility, with increased sessions available for both drop-in and pre-booked appointments at venues ...
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NH&MP officials vaccinate children at toll plaza

The National Highways & Motorway Police (NH&MP) arranged a polio immunisation programme along with the Ministry of Health at the Motorway Main Toll Plaza, Islamabad, a spokesman for the NH&MP said. On the occasion, several children, travelling ...
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Flu vaccine - Healthy prevention or harmful chemicals

According to Vaccination Information Service mercury is also present in trace amounts as a preservative in the flu vaccine. Mercury is the second most ...

Ebb of chickenpox has Minn. asking more of schools

Case numbers in Minnesota have dropped so low that the state's disease detectives can't track the spread of chickenpox under their old system -- by which most schools reported if they had a multistudent outbreak and only 80 "sentinel" schools reported ...
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Teen vaccination efforts fall short

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Polio eradication mission will be completed: Aseefa

The polio eradication programme launched by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will be completed, said the slain PPP leader's daughter, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday. Ambassador for the Polio Eradication Programme in Pakistan, Aseefa said that ...
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Fresh polio case in Bajaur sparks controversy

PESHAWAR, Sept 11: A fresh polio case has generated a controversy about the area it belongs to as the sufferer of the crippling disease basically hails from Bajaur Agency but lives in Rawalpindi. According to National Institute of Health in Islamabad, ...
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Meningitis can spread by sharing food or drink

Landers said doctors will prescribe an antibiotic to treat the illness, and said people who are exposed to someone else with Meningitis can also go on antibiotics to prevent from getting sick. She said some people don't see symptoms of the illness ...
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MTSU Student Dies of Meningitis

He died after contacting bacterial meningitis. Tennessee universities, including the University of Memphis, do not mandate that students get inoculated for meningitis, but it is recommended and doctors also agree that is a good idea. “This is a disease ...
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Linn County officials cope with pertussis outbreak, offer free vaccines to ...

University of Iowa Hygienic Lab Public Health Microbiologist Rob Thompson of Iowa City demonstrates how pertussis (whooping cough) DNA is extracted for testing Wednesday February 23, 2005 at the Hygienic Lab in Coralville. The lab conducts most of the ...
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CBCD Questions EU's Advice on HPV Vaccination | PRLog

CBCD Questions EU's Advice on HPV Vaccination. The CBCD questions whether the HPV Vaccine is the best method used to protect the public from the virus ...
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Birth control/HPV vaccine for a 13 year old? - Yahoo! Answers

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Immunisation for 22000

Ilisapeci Naucabalavu is cuddled by uncle Sevanaia Qionimacawa in Suva yesterday. Picture: JONE LUVENITOGA. MORE than 22,000 babies will be immunised by the Ministry of Health from next week in a bid to protect them from potential killer viruses.
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Hepatitis C fight - 'watershed moment'

Earlier this year, an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine declared that the world was in a "watershed moment" in the history of treatment for hepatitis C, a virus that is believed to infect roughly 180 million people globally. Dr. Warner ...
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30 stunning facts they don't want you to know about Gardasil and HPV

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Northern traditional leaders battle polio

The Federal Government has stepped up its effort to eradicate wild polio virus (WPV) in the country, with focus on endemic states in the North, but it was traditional rulers in the region who drove the campaign. The government kicked off the latest ...
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Anti-polio campaign brings PPP, PML-N together

Senator Osman Saifullah (PPP) and Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry (PML-N), representatives of two opposing political forces, paid a monitoring visit to the Bhara Kahu Rural Health Centre to review conduct of the anti-polio campaign. Both parliamentarians ...
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Rawalpindi loses its polio-free status as national count rises to 31

A 36-month-old male child, who was born in Rawalpindi and lived here till August 14, 2012, has ended up being incapacitated for life because of the polio control authorities' laid-back disposition with respect to preservation of the city's polio-free ...
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Minn. schools will report chickenpox cases

Miller said the recommendation protects public health and is not intended to coerce parents to vaccinate their children. "I might also note that when parents sign the pupil immunization record stating that they are opposed to immunization for ...
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Meningitis alert draws calls from more than 100 people

More than 100 people who may have had direct contact with a man who died of bacterial meningitis have called the health departments in Allegheny County and Columbus, Ohio, to determine whether they're candidates for precautionary medications.
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Now recovered, Polk girl takes fight against viral meningitis online

She contracted viral meningitis, which then led her to get encephalitis. Both are serious conditions which cause brain inflammation. Among the best ways to combat the spread of the infections is proper hand washing and sanitizing. Now healthy, McIntee ...
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Brentwood mom says meningitis vaccine should be required

Brison's daughter, Caitlin, had contracted Neisseria Meningitidis, the deadliest form of bacterial meningitis, during her freshman year at MTSU. "She didn't have any of the typical symptoms of meningitis. She started out vomiting, had a high ...
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Funeral Arrangements Set For MTSU Meningitis Victim

Funeral arrangements have been set for the Middle Tennessee State University student who died from what health officials said was a case of bacterial meningitis. Visitation for 18-year-old Jacob Nunley will be held Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at ...
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Child found with measles symptoms

By Michael Chepkwony. A child in Nandi County was diagnosed with a disease with symptoms similar to measles sparking fears. Medical officers said they have sent samples of the child's blood to Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) to ascertain the ...
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Record Year for West Nile Virus Prompts Call for Research, Pesticides

Because there is no vaccine or effective treatment for West Nile Virus, a record year in reported cases calls for stepped up research and mosquito-eradication efforts, wrote Massachusetts state public health veterinarian Catherine M. Brown and ...
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