Daily News 2013-05-11

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Tony Abbott backs No Jab, No Play campaign

A TONY Abbott-led government will crack down on people who choose not to vaccinate their children by supporting childcare centres' right to turn away children who are not immunised and by reviewing family benefit payments to vaccine refusers.
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Immunisation debate splits communities

Bargo's GP, Dr Tim Rankin, said the town's immunisation compliance was so high because his staff tracked down those parents who had forgotten or postponed scheduled shots for their kids. "The credit goes to my staff, we chase them down and keep ...
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Two Major Drug Companies Join Forces to Save Lives

GlaxoSmithKline and Merck have agreed to sell the HPV vaccine for as low as $4.50 a dose for a program that aims to vaccinate 30 million girls in 40 developing countries by the year 2020. Nina Schwalbe is with GAVI, a coalition of governments ...
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Sudanese health ministry denies reports of meningitis outbreak

May 10, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan's ministry of health has watered down reports of a meningitis outbreak in the country, while advising people to avoid crowded places as a precaution. The ministry's comments followed reports about the existence of ...
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UN agency announces meningitis vaccination campai...

Responding to a meningococcal meningitis outbreak in South Sudan's Upper Nile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced they will carry out a vaccination campaign where the dangerous bacterial infection has killed at least three, according to ...
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Immunisation debate splits communities

With every child in the 4000-strong community of Bargo immunised against potential killers such as measles, chickenpox and whooping cough, the worst affliction a child is likely to suffer is the common cold. Bargo's GP, Dr Tim Rankin, said the town's ...
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Revised incubation allows Norwin students to attend prom

Because of that, 33 students without immunization records will be excluded from school activities for the virus' incubation period — and that included nine students planning to attend Friday's prom, the district said Thursday. But on Friday, the ...
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Texas House Passes Bill Allowing Immunizations Without Parental Consent

AUSTIN (May 10, 2013)--The Texas House has passed a bill that would allow children 14 and older to consent to their own immunization in some situations without parental approval. The proposal by state Rep. Toni Rose, D-Dallas, applies to cases in which ...
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Lyme disease vaccine developed by Stony Brook and Brookhaven researchers ...

STONY BROOK, N.Y. - The results of a phase 1/2 clinical trial in Europe of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine co-developed by researchers at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at Baxter International Inc., a U.S. based ...
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Disease of the past lives on overseas

In India, children with polio are kidnapped from rural villages and forced to spend their lives in big cities such as Mumbai asking for money, which goes straight into the pockets of what is known as the "begging mafia". So when I returned home I ...
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Rotary's efforts to defeat polio are blooming

In the past few days global leaders and philanthropists signaled their confidence in a new polio endgame strategy by pledging US$4 billion towards the plan's projected US$5.5 billion cost to eradicate polio within the next six years. The new plan ...
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Dachel Media Update: Teen on Highway on Trike ... - Age of Autism

By Anne Dachel May 7, 2013, WISTV Columbia, SC: More kids diagnosed with ...
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Dachel Media Update: Men Falling Behind - AGE OF AUTISM

By Anne Dachel May 8, 2013, Fortune Magazine: 6 reasons why men are ...
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Jersey moves to prevent measles outbreak

In recent weeks, the Public Health team have written to more than 500 parents of children in school years 5-8, whose records showed they had not received two MMR vaccine doses. Jersey's Head of Healthcare Programmes, Dr Linda Diggle, said: "We ...
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OAPs to get shingles vaccinations

It causes a painful rash which develops into itchy blisters. It can occur at any age, but is most common in people who are over 50. Officials announced the move as part of changes to the UK's immunisation schedule. They previously announced that all ...
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A shot at a healthy future in Africa

Indeed, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, which can cost as much as $130 for each of the three doses needed to provide protection against this deadly form of cancer, have been part of routine immunisation in some wealthy countries since 2007.
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Senate Bill On FDA Oversight Of Compounding Pharmacies Gets Broad Backing ...

A bill to give the FDA greater authority over compounding pharmacies like the one behind a deadly meningitis outbreak gets broad -- including bipartisan -- backing, and a key committee chairman readies a hearing on the legislation. Politico: Senate FDA ...
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Giant Snails In Texas Eat Plants, Building Materials, Infect Humans With Non ...

So even if you do contract this rare strain of meningitis by somehow swallowing a raw snail (and what are the chances of that happening?) you still don't have that much to worry about because your body can fight off the infection, usually without the ...
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Agency releases list of recommended adult vaccines

The Oregon Health Authority recommends that adults of various ages have those and several other immunizations. OHA outlined its schedule of recommended adult vaccinations in its CD Summary public health report May 7. The schedule includes ...
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Public Health Wales Concerned about Measles outbreak

Parents having children and adolescents, who have not received vaccination, have been urged to come to the clinic. Public Health Wales have been making every possible effort to keep the situation under control. In order to do the same, they have ...
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Team Zoccoli Presidential Traverse 26 Mile White Mountains Hike For Autism ...

Nick Z On June 15, Nick, Jonathan and Nicky Zoccoli are going to hike through New Hampshire's White Mountains in a 26 mile Presidential Traverse to raise money for autism action through Age of Autism. Nick is uncle, and Jonathan and Nicky are cousins, ...
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Natalie Palumbo's Gripping Autism Public Service Announcement Wins First Place

Notre Dame Film Natalie's PSA took FIRST PLACE in the Notre Dame High School National Film competition. Congratulations, Natalie. You're an inspiration and you represent autism siblings and Age of Autism in an artistic and professional manner that will ...
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Fears on spread of measles epidemic

The number of measles cases across Wales has outstripped the rise in the greater Swansea area. Copyright © 2013 The Press Association. All rights reserved. Add News to your iGoogle Homepage Add News to your Google Homepage. ©2013 Google ...
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O'Brien: A pox on those who oppose vaccinations

Parents thought it was much better to get chicken pox or measles at five or seven rather than as an adult, when there can be serious health implications. But there were risks to this approach, and children still became very ill. In any case, the ...
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Measles epidemic: Drop-in clinics offering MMR jabs return

Drop-in clinics offering MMR jabs are being held at hospitals in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend, where the measles epidemic is at its height. They are part of the health authorities' attempt to contain the outbreak, which began last November.
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Orange County health officials warns of measles r...

The Orange County (NC) Health Department (OCHD) is advising the public of the risk of exposure to measles if they attended two youth baseball games last weekend, according to a OCHD news release Thursday. An attendee of the Hillsborough Youth ...
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Rigorous Crackdown Plan to Trace Unvaccinated Children

In order to ensure that every child has undergone government's free childhood immunization program, Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced a new rigorous national policy. Plibersek has asked the states to adopt standardized procedures so that ...
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Kindergartners in Oregon Top the County in Highest Non-Medical Immunization ...

OREGON- Oregon has the highest rate of non-medical immunization exemptions for kindergartners in the country, and some lawmakers would like to see the number fall. The Senate is expected to vote next week on a bill that would require parents to prove ...
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Prove vaccinations or no enrolment

Health scientists agree that broad community vaccination is the only way to protect our children from killer diseases. Source: The Courier-Mail. PARENTS will face tough new hurdles if they want to enroll unvaccinated children at school, under a ...
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MMR drop-in clinics: people urged to take the time to get vaccinated

The number of staff we have available and the system in place for seeing people as quickly as possible means people are arriving, registering, receiving their vaccination and leaving in less than 30 mins. We'd like to reassure people who are thinking ...
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Oregon Legislature wades into vaccine debate, considers requiring education ...

The following school year, the rate of religious immunization exemptions for kindergartners fell by almost 25 percent, according to CDC data. Rosenbloom noted it's frustrating as a physician to have to compete for credence against actress Jenny ...
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The Jennifer Leigh Wells Moonlight Walk for Meningitis Research

Two-mile remembrance walk/run for Jennifer L. Wells, Charlottesville native and 4th year UVA student who died September 10, 2006 from meningococcal meningitis. This event will be both a fun celebration of Jennifer's life and an educational event to ...
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Dad tells of heartache after boy, 8, dies from meningitis

The heartbroken dad of an eight-year-old boy who died from meningitis has said he didn't realise how ill his son was until it was too late. Cardiff City-mad Ashton Edmunds-Richards, from Ely, was playing football the day before he died, dad Rhys ...
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Lack of vaccination OK for Norwin prom, but graduation unclear

The district sent letters to parents and posted a notice on its website explaining that because a case of chicken pox had been confirmed among students, the state Health Department had told the school to exclude from classes and activities 33 students ...
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School District Reverses Decision On Attending Prom Without Chickenpox Vaccine

IRWIN, Pa. (KDKA) — The Norwin School District has reversed its decision and now says they will let 9 students attend the high school prom. The students were told they couldn't attend the prom because they didn't have their chickenpox vaccine.
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Mich. child with measles leads officials to contact dozens of people about ...

KALAMAZOO, Michigan — Dozens of people in West Michigan and plane passengers from several states have been contacted after health officials learned they may have been exposed to measles through an 8-month-old from the Battle Creek area.
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Dozens from West Michigan, plane passengers contacted after possible measles ...

Measles is highly contagious and is spread by coughing and sneezing. Initial symptoms may include fever, runny nose, watery red eyes and cough. After a few days, a rash on the head spreads over the entire body. Measles can lead to pneumonia and other ...
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Chorley nurse accused of misconduct could be struck off

A DEPRESSED nurse pocketed vaccinations from her surgery and then asked a colleague to inject her, a hearing was told. April Miller took the jabs and administered them to herself after the co-worker refused to help her, the Nursing and Midwifery ...
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Rabies scare prompts Fairbanks vaccination clinic - NECN.com

"We want to do whatever we can do to encourage people to get their animals vaccinated, especially with the number of people who let their animals run loose," Besser said. "You can't control what happens when a loose dog has an encounter with wildlife ...
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New cases pour cold water on anti-polio strategy

Official documents of the National Virology Laboratory (NVI), Islamabad revealed that a seven months old male child from Mardan was diagnosed with the crippling poliomyelitis-1 strain of the poliovirus. His father had refused to allow polio teams to ...
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Groups take next H7N9 vaccine step amid questions about summer spread

Despite uncertainty about what the virus will do next, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have taken another step toward developing a vaccine by making H7N9 candidate vaccine viruses ...
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Washington Post profiles Sharyl Attkisson of CBS and her gutsy coverage from Fast and Furious to Benghazi to yes, vaccines. Second to last paragraph: "Some ...
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7311 Pak women die of cervical cancer

According to the government of Australia, there has also been a decline in genital warts and cervical abnormalities among young women since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Australia. Dr Jennifer Smith, Executive Director of the Cervical Cancer ...
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Meningitis Outbreak: New Court Filings Reveal Nashville Clinic Gave Patients ...

The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis last year may have been caused by the illegal actions of a Massachusetts pharmacy, which used patient lists from a Nashville clinic to mislead regulators, according to the former Saint Thomas Outpatient ...
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Santa Cruz County sees more vaccinations among older children

"The law really supports what public health knows, which is that vaccines work," said Dr. Lisa Hernandez, the county's public health officer. There are no signs of a new epidemic, but whopping cough typically occurs in three- to five-year cycles. There ...
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Oregon lawmakers wade into vaccination debate

"I don't get the publicity of a Playboy centerfold," he said. McCarthy is credited with spotlighting the issue after claiming a connection exists between vaccines and autism. Several studies have found no association between vaccines and autism, and ...
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Fears after 13 new measles cases Wales in two days

Public Health Wales is warning of its concerns that outbreaks of measles may start to be seen outside of the Swansea area as cases continue to be reported across Wales. There have now been 1,074 cases of measles in the area affected by the outbreak ...
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Families in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge targeted in measles campaign

FAMILIES in west Kent are being urged to protect their children against measles, following a national increase in cases of the disease. Children in the boroughs of Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge and Malling, Maidstone, and the southern part of Sevenoaks ...
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Public health professionals recommend vaccines — because they work

Health care providers who vaccinate young children follow a schedule prepared by the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of medical and public health experts. The current schedule is timed to protect children from 14 diseases by ...
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Building Bridges confab scheduled for May 21

ALBANY — Current topics in immunization are expected to be the main focus of the 2013 Building Bridges Conference set for May 21 at the Creekside Education Center at Chehaw. The conference, coordinators say, is held as a collaborative effort to ...
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Oregon lawmakers wade into vaccination debate

The bill would require parents enrolling unvaccinated children in school to prove they consulted a physician for information, or show a certificate verifying they have watched an online educational video about the risks and benefits of immunization.
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Rabies scare prompts animal control to host rabies clinic

The vaccines will be given from 4-7 p.m. Monday through Saturday at the Fairbanks North Star Borough Animal Control shelter on Davis Road. Cost is $5 per animal. “I believe this is an appropriate response and hope we are able to reach folks whose ...
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Adoption, vaccination and microchip clinic attracts large response

An Adopt-a-thon and Low-Cost Vaccine and Microchip Clinic is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Windsor Park Shopping Center on 5202 Simpson Ferry Road in Mechanicsburg. Vicki Bolinger of Mechanicsburg is the event organizer.
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New Discovery May Lead the Way to Improved Whooping Cough Vaccine

A new vaccine against whooping cough, caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis was first introduced to the routine vaccination schedule for infants and children in most developed countries, including Ireland over a decade ago. Prior to the ...
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Jamaican rehab centre looks to Canada

The man speaking to him — eyeball to eyeball, 1950s polio victim to polio victim, aged wheelchair beside modern scooter — was Don Taylor. Don, in his early sixties, is a prime advocate on the island and educator at the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation ...
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Oregon lawmakers wade into vaccination debate - Corvallis Gazette-Times

A growing number of parents are declining some or all vaccines for their children out of fear of harmful side effects, alarming doctors and public health officials who fear the trend will create a resurgence of preventable diseases. The state Senate is ...
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Study says influenza immunization is safe in children with IBD

Influenza immunization rates in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are low despite its safety according to a new study by researchers at the Institute ...
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Vaccination fighters put kids, elderly at risk, say doctors - Brisbane Times

He said their suggestion medical professionals were uninformed about immunisation was completely incorrect and your GP should be your first port of call for health issues. Tweet · submit to reddit · Email article · Print · Reprints & permissions ...
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Prove vaccinations or no enrolment

Responding to The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph's campaign to improve childhood immunisation rates, Ms Plibersek said it was time for a "rigorous" national policy to identify children who had slipped through the immunisation net when they ...
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Merck & Co and GSK offer discounted cervical vaccines to developing nations

She said: “This new price reduction is a great step forward for women and girls: we look forward to working with countries to incorporate the HPV vaccine into their national immunisation programmes.” The agreement adds to existing efforts from both ...
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Price cut on HPV vaccine for poorest countries

The vaccines cost about $130 a dose in the United States, and each girl needs three doses. The vaccines protect against the strains of human papillomavirus, or HPV, that cause 70 percent of cervical cancers. The Merck one also prevents genital warts ...
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Cancers Caused By HPV Were On The Rise Before The Vaccine Came To Market

The study looked at government databases that tracked HPV-related cancers before the vaccine was introduced, for the last 30 years. Through the course of the period studied, researchers saw an increase in early stage cervical, vaginal, penile, anal ...
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Grieving mum carries on

CARRYING ON: Lisa, Mark, Caleb (12) and Andrew (11) Gallagher in front of Letitia's headstone. Lisa and Mark Gallagher. ROSS GIBLIN. TOWER OF STRENGTH: Lisa and Mark Gallagher at the launch of a meningitis vaccination campaign at Parliament.
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Court filing in Nashville meningitis suit suggests Mass. Pharmacy misled ...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — New court filings suggest a Massachusetts pharmacy blamed for a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis last year may have used patient lists from a Nashville clinic to mislead regulators. The suggestion is part of a statement by ...
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Oregon lawmakers wade into vaccination debate - NECN.com

The Senate is expected to vote next week on a bill that would require parents to prove they consulted a physician, or have completed an online educational video before refusing vaccines for their children. Doctors and public health officials back the ...
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Makers of HPV vaccine pledge to lower prices - Business - The ...

The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world's poorest countries below $5 ...
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The Age of Autism Book

It's interesting that whenever I talk about ADULTS WITH AUTISM and bring up the problem of children aging out of school, I'm routinely told that in the past doctors labeled them as something else and that we used to lock these people away in ...
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High School Seniors May Miss Prom, Graduation Without Chicken Pox Vaccine

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa.) -- For most high school seniors, the prom is the event that sets off the countdown to graduation. Students winding down to end of their high school career finally get the chance to celebrate the close of ...
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Chicken pox vaccine cuts hospitalisation rates - ScienceNetwork WA

vaccine chicknpox Most of the hospitalised children had been eligible for vaccination but were not immunised. Image: iStockA NATIONAL surveillance study of hospitalised cases with chicken pox before and after the introduction of the freely available ...
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Concern over rise of measles cases in Gwent

Extra efforts are being made to contain a measles epidemic amid fears of an outbreak outside the worst affected area. Public Health Wales (PHW) warned today of its concern over a rise in cases in the Gwent area, taking in Newport. It comes as figures ...
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Another case of measles discovered in Orange County

CHAPEL HILL — The Orange County Health Department believes people attending two Hillsborough Youth Athletic Associate baseball games last week may have been exposed to measles. Health Department officials are asking anyone who attended either ...
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Battle Creek child with measles prompts search for more than 100 contacts in ...

In Calhoun County, 48 households were notified of exposure, including two pregnant women who were exposed, one with a history of measles and one who did not know her immunization status. The vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women. It fell to ...
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Health is wealth - A new vaccine is launched in Uganda

... Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add unicef's video to your playlist. Sign in. Statistics Report. Published on May 10, 2013. The PCV immunization programme is expected to reach as many as 1.4 million children and save thousands of lives.
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Horse immunization clinic

Bits'N'Pieces 4-H club is hosting a horse immunization clinic at the Vinton County fairgrounds on May 14. You do not have to be a 4-H member to participate. Dr. Anderson and Dr. Davis from Animals Unlimited Clinic in Jackson will be providing the services.
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Hepatitis Infection Rate Declines

Hepatitis Infection Rate Declines. Khartoum - The rate of hepatitis infection has declined 4 cases among every one hundred children compared to 13 cases among the same number, recent studies have shown. Thanks for the introduction of vaccine B for ...
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Rabies scare prompts Fairbanks vaccination clinic

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The recent discovery of two rabid wolves has prompted Fairbanks North Star Borough animal control officials to offer nightly rabies vaccines next week at the shelter. The $5 vaccines will be available 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday ...
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Merck Sharp and Dohme to provide HPV vaccines to poor nations - Zenopa

Merck Sharp and Dohme is to provide doses of Gardasil to various developing nations after being awarded a significant portion of the UNICEF human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine tender. The company will supply approximately 2.4 million doses of Gardasil ...
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Polio immunization campaign to reach two million children

Luanda - Two million children under five years of age will be immunized in Luanda during the vaccination campaign against polio started Friday and scheduled to end on Sunday, 12. The information was released by Health minister José Van-Dunem at the ...
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Polio and its crippling effects Part II - Herald Journal

In 1952, Americans were in the midst of the worst polio outbreak in the nation's history, with nearly 58,000 cases reported, according to the Salk Institute For Biological Studies. That year alone, polio claimed the lives of 3,145 people, and left 21 ...
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Anti-polio vaccination begins on Bangla border

AGARTALA: Two-year-old Manisha of the Banamalipur area in Agartala became the first child to be administered an anti-polio dose at the Akhaura integrated check-post along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura on her way back home from Dhaka on ...
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ACIP releases interim 2013-'14 influenza season recommendations - AAP News

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued interim guidelines for the 2013-'14 influenza season, again recommending that anyone 6 months and older receive the influenza ...
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Health Front: Adverse Ambien Reactions

Vaccinations are still administered today to at- risk groups including the US military and poxvirus researchers. The vaccine has some bad side effects. Although there has been much skepticism among hard scientists on herbal medicine, results are ...
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Ceasing transport of live birds may be key to preventing spread of H7N9 ...

In the first letter, Shui Shan Lee, from Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and colleagues said that there is a need to control poultry at the farm level, possibly through massive poultry vaccination.
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New Lyme Disease Vaccine Promising In Clinical Trial

Safety and immunogenicity of a novel multivalent OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis in healthy adults: a double-blind, randomised, dose-escalation phase 1/2 trial. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70110-5. Accessed ...
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