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Daily News 2013-05-21

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Are non vaccinators the "new Jews"? Hilary's Desk

Anti-vaccine views led by the internet, research shows (video)

Denver Attorney Wins U.S. Supreme Court Case

Parents urged to take advantage of school MMR clinics as measles cases rise again - Public Health Wales has urged parents to attend school clinics before they come to an end this week, with an extra 20 cases of measles confirmed in the last five days

Vaccine center set for boost with state funding

Anti-CD47 antibody may offer new route to successful cancer vaccination - (Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the School of Medicine have shown that their previously identified therapeutic approach to fight cancer via immune cells called macrophages also prompts the disease-fighting killer T cells to attack the cancer.

Uganda to conduct another HIV vaccine trial

Attorneys in untimely vaccine injury cases allowed to recover legal fees

Measles outbreaks flourish in UK years after discredited research tied measles shot to autism (comments)

Case Information: Case Type: Libel & slander Style: Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield, MB, BS
v.: The British Medical Journal Publishing Group, Ltd.; Brian Deer; and Dr. Fiona Godlee

New Series of Three Childhood Vaccination Actionplans from Fitango Put Disease Prevention First

Whooping Cough Vaccines, Why New Ones May Harm Your Child

GSK fined over vaccine trials; 14 babies reported dead

Vaccination's lifetime of blessings - CAPE TOWN: A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream that everyone shares.

Viruses in the gut protect from infection - Phages in mucus aid immune system by killing invading bacteria.

GADVASU gets patent for innovation on infectious disease

Cold viruses thrive in frosty conditions - Icy temperatures chill the immune response that thwarts the common cold.

Do you have mercury in your mouth? - The health controversy surrounding dental amalgam

Ranbaxy Whistleblower: So Many Infractions And Each Was Egregious by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

Hopes For Autism And Fragile X Drug Dashed By Little Biotech Struggles by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

Measles surges in United Kingdom

Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party, paying them about 5 pounds each ($7.60) and later joked about the incident. Still, MMR immunization rates plummeted across the UK as fearful parents abandoned the vaccine - from ...
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Parents urged to take advantage of school MMR clinics as measles cases rise ...

MMR vaccination clinics in schools will come to an end this week. Health officials are urging parents to take advantage of school MMR vaccination sessions before they come to an end this week as the number of cases in the measles outbreak rises again.
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Drop-in sessions for measles vaccinations in Mid Wales

The Powys teaching Health Board says its special clinics are aimed at vaccinating children and young people who have not received two doses of the MMR vaccine. Newtown Hospital Outpatients department will host a drop-in session on Saturday between ...
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CDC issues guidance for Pentacel, Daptacel and Pediarix shortages - AAP News

In response to reduced availability of the vaccines Pentacel, Daptacel and Pediarix, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued updated immunization guidance to help pediatricians during the shortages, which are expected to last ...
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Winning the War against Cervical Cancer

Likewise rumors have circulated about severe reactions to the HPV vaccine, but in 2012 the Centers for Disease Control looked into these claims and found that there are no serious side effects with the HPV vaccine. Another objection stems from the fact ...
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Yahoo! News

Court: woman can seek lawyer fees in vaccine case - The Big Story ...

Shortly after finishing the vaccine, she started having symptoms of what was later diagnosed as multiple sclerosis. Cloer sued, but courts said her lawsuit was ...
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Attorneys in untimely vaccine injury cases allowed to recover ...

US – A Supreme Court ruling allows attorneys in untimely vaccine injury cases ... for attorney fees under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program ...

Day care ban for unvaccinated children 'heavy handed', says expert

By Melissa Davey. May 21, 2013, 3 a.m.. Legislation allowing childcare centres and preschools to ban unimmunised children would be "draconian" and unnecessary, a child immunisation expert from the University of Sydney says.
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Bill to protect children and boost immunisation rates

Opposition Leader John Robertson's gave notice to the lower house on Tuesday he was planning to introduce a bill to amend the Public Health Act 2010. He said the legislation would have the effect of protecting children and boosting childhood ...
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US SC: Woman can seek lawyers' fees from government in lawsuit ...

In 1997, shortly after receiving her third Hepatitis-B vaccine, Melissa Cloer ... In 2004, she learned of a link between MS and the Hepatitis-B vaccine, ...

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Staci Rieder: Flu vaccination helps health care workers protect their patients

In Monday's article "Bill would ban flu-shot mandate," an important point was left out: the reason employers, including hospitals, nursing homes and other health care agencies want to mandate the vaccine in the first place. Those who contract influenza ...
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Bereaved family's fun-filled day to remember their teenage son

Karen immediately suspected meningitis and called an ambulance, but Chris was in a critical condition and his organs began to fail and his heart stopped. Despite several attempts to revive him, the popular teenager was pronounced dead at 5.15am.
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The New York Times Goes Cruising At Gay Sex Clubs, Doling Out Meningitis ...

nyt-meningitis The New York Times has taken investigative reporting to new heights, or rather, depths. Reporter Anemona Hartocollis went out to New York underground, after-hours sex club Paddles – “the friendly S&M club” — with Dr. Demetre Daskalakis ...
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Our No Jab No Play plan won over Health Minister Jillian Skinner

"I will continue to work with the NSW Chief Health Officer to examine the implications of amending the Public Health Act 2010 to prevent unvaccinated children accessing childcare services," Ms Skinner said. ... Tony Abbott backs our vaccination ...
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Measles: Cases in Swansea and Powys reach 1125

Public Health Wales (PHW) expressed concern over the figures in what is the final week of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) school vaccination clinics across Wales. More than 50,000 people have being vaccinated over the last two months. Dr Marion Lyons ...
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BBC News

Britain may not have autistic kids but man do they have measles / Scrape TV ...

London, U.K. – There has never been any kind of definitive link, or really any kind of sound science at all, that has backed up the theory that vaccinations result in increased rates of diseases like autism. That belief, though, has been pervasive ...
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Scrape TV

Measles outbreaks flourish in UK years after discredited research tied measles ...

LONDON — More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing ...
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Rush to find 400 at risk of having measles - Brisbane Times

Up to 400 people could have been exposed to measles in the Central Queensland town of Moranbah, with fears FIFO workers could spread it across the state. The updated health warning comes after a nurse caught the disease from a mine worker earlier this ...
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Measles can kill ...it's never too late to get a jab

WHILE the measles outbreak is slowing down in Swansea, it is still a concern that vaccination uptake isn't high enough to prevent outbreaks in other parts of Wales. Measles is a potentially serious illness that will leave one in 500 people permanently ...
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Daily Post North Wales

What is measles, symptoms and prevention

This could be the cause of the measles outbreak that lead to a registered number of 29,339 measles cases in India. But measles is not strictly restricted to children, adults too can develop measles. Here's how you can recognise measles, spot the causes ...
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Times of India

Montana DPHHS Recognizes Dr. George Scordalakes' Practice

The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Immunization Program presented the AFIX Certificate of Achievement – Healthy People 2012 to Dr. Scordalakes at the Immunization Regional Workshop this spring. Dr. Scordalakes' practice ...
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Seniors homes recognized for flu immunization - Simcoe.com

MIDLAND – Two Midland long-term-care facilities received gold awards on May 15 in the Simcoe Muskoka Influenza Immunization Challenge. Hillcrest Village Care Centre and The Villa Care Centre were both recognized for achieving a staff immunization ...
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Immunization clinic planned

Herkimer County Public Health will be hosting an immunization clinic for children and adults from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, June 6, at the Town of Webb School. Bring insurance cards. Children with Fidelis, Medicaid, Child Health Plus or who are uninsured ...
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Court says woman can seek lawyers' fees despite dismissal of vaccine lawsuit ...

The high court on Monday ruled for Melissa Cloer, who wanted lawyers' fees for her lawsuit over damage she says was caused by hepatitis B vaccines. Shortly after finishing the vaccine, she started having symptoms of what was later diagnosed as multiple ...
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Travel Vaccines Market to 2019 - Hepatitis A, Japanese Encephalitis and ...

The leading business intelligence provider GBI Research has released its latest research report, entitled "Travel Vaccines Market to 2019 - Hepatitis A, Japanese Encephalitis and Meningococcal Vaccine Segments to Drive Growth". The report provides ...
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Protection better with whole-cell pertussis vaccine

During the 2010-2011 California pertussis outbreak, teens whose first four diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis shots contained whole-cell pertussis (DTwP) were six times less likely to be pertussis PCR-positive than those whose shots contained acellular ...
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Influenza vaccine safe for children with IBD

Influenza immunization rates in children with inflammatory bowel disease are often low, but immunization did not result in increased adverse events or contacts with the health system, according to findings in a recently published study. ... in children ...
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Healio

Join a polio walk/run - Cramahe Now

of President Garry Clement of the Colborne Rotary Club , who has had a mission of running 1000 miles to raise money for the Polio Plus Foundation. This event will take place in Kennedy Park in Campbellford, it will be a walk/run on our rotary trail ...
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Bajaur Agency: Levies official killed in attack on polio team

As the polio workers entered a house to vaccinate children, militants hiding nearby opened fire on them. PHOTO: FILE. KHAR: A Levies force official escorting a polio vaccination team was killed on Monday in the Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency. Assistant ...
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The Express Tribune

Levies man killed in attack on polio team - The Nation

A personal of Bajaur levies force was gunned down when unknown armed persons attacked a polio vaccination team in the border area of Tehsil Mamond in Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning. Locals and officials of the political administration of Bajaur ...
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The Nation

Thanks To Debunked Anti-Vaccine Study, U.K. Sees Dramatic Surge In Measles ...

U.K. public health officials are racing to contain a rash of measles outbreaks among older British children that threatens to spread the highly contagious disease throughout the country. The budding epidemic has been linked to a debunked 1998 anti ...
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ThinkProgress

Liquidia Technologies Announces Extension of Collaboration with PATH to ...

The extension of this agreement allows for the continuation of preclinical proof-of-concept studies on a next generation pneumococcal vaccine. If successful, the vaccine could potentially allow for broadened efficacy and manufacturing efficiencies that ...
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UK scrambles measles vaccine to youth as outbreaks flourish

Still, MMR immunization rates plummeted across the U.K. as fearful parents abandoned the vaccine -- from rates over 90 per cent to 54 per cent. Wakefield has won support from parents suspicious of vaccines, including Hollywood celebrities like Jenny ...
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CTV News

Princeton University reports fourth case of bacterial meningitis since March

This make the fourth case of the serious bacterial infection reported in students since March. Princeton reports three other cases of meningitis associated with the University since March were caused by meningococcal bacteria known as type B, which has ...
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Measles surges in UK 15 years after discredited research links vaccine to autism

Flawed Research On Measles Prompts Growing UK Epidemic

In addition, a new concern of rubella, or "German measles," respiratory viral infection that has arisen in a small Welsh community, according to the Global Dispatch. "We can't sit around and wait for rubella outbreaks to follow measles - now is the ...
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Parent Herald

Decline in vaccination rates due to parents who read up online about jabs

The proportion of one and two-year-olds who had all the shots required under the nation's free immunisation program fell by 0.2 per cent. While the percentage of six-year-olds fully immunised dropped by 1.2 per cent to 91.9 per cent. NO JAB, NO PLAY ...
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Winning the War against Cervical Cancer

Most cervical cancers are caused by HPV. Before the HPV vaccine the most effective intervention was annual PAP smears followed by aggressive treatment in the case of a positive diagnosis. With a five year survival rate of less than 16% for stage 4 ...
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Scientific American (blog)

Wart's that you say? A smidgen of good HPV news

In 2007 Australia introduced a program of free(-as-in-beer) HPV vaccination for schoolgirls aged 12-13, with optional free “catch-up” programs available to older girls and women. This effectively created the conditions for a controlled experiment ...
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Our daughter died within hours of first symptoms of meningitis

Aoibhe was a new year baby, born at 12.06am on January 1st, 2004. Her photo was on the front page of the Connacht Tribune and she was the second baby born in Ireland that year. So we start every year on her birthday – every new year without her – and ...
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Irish Times

MMR reminder sent to parents

The Island's Public Health team in partnership with Public Health England has sent a letter to all parents. This is in light of the recent outbreak of measles in South Wales, it reminds parents of the importance of ensuring their children are ...
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CIDRAP NEWS SCAN Global public health efforts pertussis vaccine ...

NEWS SCAN Global public health efforts pertussis vaccine comparison polio vaccine attack. May 20 2013. WHO's Chan cites successes calls for cooperation at ...
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Legacy Of The Wakefield Scare: Measles Resurges In UK, Threatening Global ...

The surge comes more than 10 years after a now-discredited study which claimed that vaccines cause autism, leading parents to refuse to vaccinate their children. (Photo : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The measles is threatening to make ...
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Medical Daily

The United Kingdom Deals with Increased Rates of Measles

The growing concerns over a huge measles outbreak in the United Kingdom are prompted by the increasing rate of cases per year. Within this year alone, there have already been over 1,200 cases of measles and last year's record was 2,000. The United ...
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Counsel & Heal

Measles Epidemic Caused By Faulty Research? - iTechPost

A possible link between the measles vaccine and autism scared parents in the UK into not getting their children vaccinated. The research that resulted in this theory has since been discredited and now the UK is trying to address the rise of the measles ...
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iTech Post

Mining town faces measles outbreak

Queensland Health has declared a local measles outbreak in the Central Highlands' mining town of Moranbah. Dr Stephen Donohue says a nurse at the Moranbah Medical Centre caught the virus from a mine worker who contracted the illness while overseas ...
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NSW vaccine laws 'to allow for exemptions'

Ms Skinner said the government had agreed to debate Labor's motion as the issue was important, however she pointed out only a very small portion of parents actively deny their children vaccination. Earlier, Mr Robertson urged the NSW government not to ...
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SBS

Whole-cell vaccine was more effective than acellular vaccine during California ...

OAKLAND, Calif., May 20, 2013 — Whole-cell pertussis vaccines were more effective at protecting against pertussis than acellular pertussis vaccines during a large recent outbreak, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published in Pediatrics.
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Whole-Cell Pertussis Vaccines More Effective Protection

MONDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- During a pertussis outbreak, adolescents who were given whole-cell pertussis vaccines in childhood are more protected than those given acellular pertussis vaccines, according to research published online May 20 in ...
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Anti-polio drive: Three-day campaign starts in Fata

The anti-polio campaign was inaugurated here on Monday at the Fata Secretariat. Secretary Planning & Development, Fata Secretariat Shakeel Khan Bangash and officials of the EPI-Fata were present on the occasion. During the campaign, 726,716 children ...
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The Express Tribune

Eradication drive suffers: Caretaker PM removes polio cell chief

ILLUSTRATION: TRIBUNE CREATIVE. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's anti-polio campaign received a fresh blow when Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso dismissed the national coordinator for the Prime Minister's Polio Cell Dr Altaf Bosan. According ...
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Lawyers can seek fees even if vaccine injury claims were too late

Congress established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in 1986 in an effort to provide a costeffective process for resolving vaccineinjury ...
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Teen suffers health problems after receiving HPV vaccine - KMBC.com

The HPV vaccine, commonly given to girls and boys as early as 9 years old, has caused controversy because some people have experienced side effects.
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Dachel Media Update Measles Mania DSM5 Worries AGE OF AUTISM

By Anne Dachel May 20, 2013, Fox News: Measles surge in Britain years after vaccine/autism scare May 18, 2013, Midland (MI) Daily Review: Benefit at CMU to ...
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Childhood vaccination rates 'remain high'

The study, conducted by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) in conjunction with the SBS documentary production Jabbed, found most Australians believe vaccines are safe, and support childhood immunisation.
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SBS

ACT push to ban unvaccinated school children during outbreaks

Dropping immunisation rates have prompted New South Wales to consider giving childcare centres and schools the option to exclude children who are not vaccinated, with an exemption for parents who have a genuine conscientious objection. Chief Minister ...
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Bristol student Onor Crummay overcame brain damage caused by meningitis to ...

A STUDENT who suffered temporary brain damage after battling meningitis is urging everyone to take part in Meningitis UK's annual Big Stroll South West to stamp out the disease. Despite once being classed as "critical", Onor Crummay, from Clifton ...
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This is Bristol

Measles monster annihilates another three kids - The Nation

On Saturday, five cases of measles were reported at Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) in Rawalpindi and BBH Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Asif Qadir Mir said the situation was not alarming as five to four cases were reported on daily basis as compared to ...
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The Nation

Health Minister Jillian Skinner to get tough on vaccines

Ms Skinner said any changes would allow parents with a "genuine objection" to be exempt. This would include medical reasons and "objection, on grounds such as religious beliefs". Ms Skinner said she supported the public health benefits of vaccination.
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WA not planning vaccination laws

WA authorities today unveiled a three-year policy to raise the state's child vaccination levels, which according to latest figures remain the lowest in the country for children between 12 and 15 months. Strategies will include a ramped-up reminder ...
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Newer whooping cough vaccine not as protective

The rate of whooping cough, or pertussis, has been climbing in recent years, he said - to the point where "we're worried about losing control of pertussis in the United States." The pertussis vaccine is given in combination with vaccines for diphtheria ...
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Leading explanations for whooping cough's resurgence don't stand up to scrutiny

The researchers expressed several of the leading hypotheses for the resurgence of pertussis in mathematical terms, then used statistical methods to test how well each of these transmission models explained the Thai data. The best fit came from a model ...
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A number of vaccines are recommended for adults - Reading Eagle

"The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has been urging the medical community to address the issue of adult vaccines." Vaccines for adults, which are given at various ages and under varying circumstances, range from the flu vaccine, which ...
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Old Whooping Cough Vaccine Wasn't Safe, Yet Offered More Protection

As a baby, the CDC recommends parents give their children four doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine, or DTaP, between the ages two and 18 months old. The fifth is given when they're between four and six, while a booster could be taken ...
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Medical Daily

New pneumococcal vaccine as safe as older one

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends all children ages five years and younger receive PCV13. The vaccine protects against pneumococcal disease, an infection caused by Streptococcus pneumonia. The most common types of ...
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Our View | Flu Vaccinations Bill to ban mandated flu vaccinations an unwise idea

No vaccine is. The most recent version was only about 56% effective overall and far less effective for the elderly, a problem the CDC acknowledges. But that's a big improvement over 0%. And, as with all vaccinations, the flu shot's overall ...
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Strategy to boost immunisation rates

A strategy has been launched by the State Government to boost immunisation rates in WA and prevent the outbreak of diseases like measles, rubella and meningitis. According to Health Minister Kim Hames, WA has lower immunisation rates than other ...
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146 483 children targeted for immunisation

With the current routine immunisation coverage for the last two years remaining at around 80 per cent, there is a possible outbreak if no action is taken. Dube said the routine disease surveillance reported that the last confirmed measles outbreak in ...
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New vaccination strategy launched as rates lag

The Health Minister Kim Hames says WA is lagging behind the rest of Australia when it comes to immunisation. A report from the National Health Performance Authority found 90 per cent of WA children are fully immunised at one, three and five years of age.
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Significant sequelae after bacterial meningitis in Niger: a cohort study ...

The situation is similar in Niger which experiences yearly meningitis epidemics and where rehabilitation wards are rare and hearing aids remain unaffordable. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of neuropsychological sequelae after acute ...
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Family Of Ohio University Student Who Died Of Meningitis Sues University

The family of an Ohio University student who died after contracting meningitis is suing the university. The family of Andrea Robinson, a student from Cleveland, has filed suit. The suit alleges the university did not do enough to protect her from the ...
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Updated: Latest student with bacterial meningitis hospitalized in home state ...

A 20-year-old male student was hospitalized on Monday for symptoms of bacterial meningitis, the New Jersey Department of Health confirmed. The student traveled to his home state Sunday and was hospitalized there Monday, according to a campus health ...
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Skinner backs NSW anti-vaccination ban

NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner supports legislation that would allow childcare centres and preschools to ban unvaccinated children. Opposition Leader John Robertson says he will introduce amendments to the Public Health Act giving early childhood ...
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Sky News Australia

Johns Hopkins Scientist Slams Flu Vaccine - SpyGhana.com

Promoting influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies in the United States, says Doshi of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Drug companies and public officials press for widespread vaccination each fall ...
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spyghana.com

Leading explanations for whooping cough's resurgence don't stand up to scrutiny

Some say the vaccine wears off quicker than public health officials had previously believed. Others suggest that the vaccine protects against illness but does not prevent transmission of the bacterial disease, which is also known as pertussis. But a ...
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AirAsia: Child not allowed on board because of chicken pox

PETALING JAYA: A mother and her child were prevented from boarding a flight from Vietnam to Malaysia because the child was infected with chicken pox and was deemed a health risk to other passengers, AirAsia said. The airline was responding to ...
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Measles surges in UK years after flawed research

In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in ...
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Another child dies of measles

ONE more child patient of measles expired in Lahore on Sunday, raising the death toll to 74 so far. Ten-month old Momina, a resident of Sherakot, died due to measles. As many as 67 new cases of measles have been reported in different public and private ...
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Vaccination recommended to combat resurgence of leptospirosis - Ottawa Citizen

Up until 1-2 decades ago, dogs were routinely vaccinated against leptospirosis along with distemper, hepatitis, kennel cough and rabies. When it appeared that the disease was no longer a threat to dogs, vaccination was gradually discontinued. However ...
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Vaccination a parent's choice

“Families who believe in immunisation, and their child is immunised, don't need to worry,” she said. According to the Royal Children's Hospital some diseases can still be caught by children who have been vaccinated, though usually the symptoms are less ...
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Yellow Fever Vaccination: No Booster Needed for Immunity - Medscape

"The conventional guidance has been that the yellow fever vaccination has had to be boosted after ten years," said Dr Helen Rees, chair of SAGE, in a WHO news release. "Looking at really very good evidence, it was quite clear to SAGE that in fact a ...
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Vaccination: denial of some rights essential to protect others

What is the problem for the vaccinated children? They are protected by the vaccines they have received, obviously, so they are not at risk of catching a ''vaccine-preventable'' disease. If the parents are worried about catching childhood diseases, they ...
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Leading explanations for whooping cough's resurgence don't stand up to scrutiny

But a University of Michigan-led research team has concluded that neither of these proposed mechanisms for the resurgence of pertussis is supported by the best available evidence. In a study that reviewed 30 years of data from Thailand, they found that ...
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Acellular Pertussis vaccine less effective than whole-cell vaccine

This study adds to previous research, showing a significant difference in pertussis protection among adolescents who received DTaP compared to DTwP in childhood. This study also examined adolescents who received different combinations of the two types ...
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2 Minute Medicine

High Court's Atty Fee Ruling May Spur More Vaccine Claims

The ruling could cause a slight uptick in claims made to the government-funded National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which Congress established in ...

Gunmen Attack Pakistani Polio Team

... gunmen killed at least nine polio workers in separate attacks in Pakistan. Some Pakistani militants oppose the polio vaccination campaign, accusing health workers of acting as spies for the United States and claiming the vaccine harms Muslim children.
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Report over measles, polio outbreak presented to PM

app25-22pm-islamabad.jpg ISLAMABAD, April 22 (APP): Acting Federal Ombudsman Salman Farooqi on Monday presented a 400-page report to Prime Minister Justice ® Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on the recent measles and polio related death cases among ...
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Associated Press of Pakistan

Grovenstein earns statewide public health award - Effingham Herald

Grovenstein, who has been in nursing for 34 years and with the Effingham County Health Department for the past eight years, was chosen from nominees from around the state of Georgia. She was primarily recognized for improving immunization outcomes in ...
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Vaccination deniers should lose their play rights

This linked the MMR vaccine with autism. The doctor has since been struck off the medical register and his article retracted but the damage has been done. Just this month, health authorities have reported 1094 highly infectious measles cases in Swansea ...
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield response to the measles ... - The Health Rebel

Dr Wakefield responds to UK public health officials call for censorship on MMR vaccine safety debate, measles vaccine failure, and issues a further challenge for ...
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Denver Attorney Wins US Supreme Court Case

Plaintiffs who file claims under a federal vaccination injury compensation program ... argued that under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1985, ...

Vaccination debate flares

Wagga mother Alisha McIntyre holds her 11-month-old son Elijah yesterday. Picture: Alastair Brook. WAGGA mum Alisha McIntyre believes in early childhood immunisation despite the fact some other members of her family are still to be convinced.
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Vaccination a parent's choice

The state opposition wants to introduce the legislation to increase immunisation rates in NSW. It says it will consult the childcare sector and public on the draft bill which will allow preschools to choose whether to accept children who are not immunised.
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Flu shot bill wouldn't impact ThedaCare

The quality director for a local health care provider doesn't anticipate a very big impact from a bill that would ban state companies from requiring employees to get a flu shot. Dan Collins of ThedaCare says the vast majority of their workers get the ...
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Expert Questions Flu Vaccine's Safety, Effectiveness

As for the flu shot's safety, Doshi wrote, "For most people, and possibly most doctors, officials need only claim that vaccines save lives, and it is assumed there must be solid research behind it." But he questioned whether that was really the case ...
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The Stir (blog)

Meningitis outbreak in gay men spurs concern in New York - News

"Meningitis symptoms usually come on quickly, and the disease can be fatal if not treated right away," warned Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley. "Vaccination is the best defense. I urge all men who meet these criteria – regardless of whether they ...
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MSN News

PRINCETON: Fourth case of meningitis at university

As far as the school knows, none of them have developed symptoms of meningitis, which is spread from person to person through sharing eating utensils or drinking containers or having close contact. Treatment is done through antibiotics. Health and ...
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NSW govt may support vaccination bill

The move comes amid concern about high rates of unvaccinated children in some parts of the state. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has said he's committed to lifting vaccination rates and will consider the bill. Health Minister Jillian Skinner has told ABC ...
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Sky News Australia

Leading Explanations for Whooping Cough's Resurgence Don't Stand Up to ...

Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence. Some say the vaccine wears off quicker than public health ...
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Measles surges in UK years after vaccine scare

"But after reading more about it, I know now that immunization is not only good for your own child, it's good for everyone," she said. ---. Online: Public Health England's Measles website: http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ ...
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Preschools may get right to bar unvaccinated children

Opponents of vaccination argue that parents have the right to decide what is best for their children, and that vaccines can be unsafe and cause serious side-effects, weaken the immune system, and can cause autism. Health authorities reject the arguments.
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Measles kills three more children in Lahore

From Web Edition. LAHORE: Measles has killed three more children in Lahore on Monday, Geo News reported. The number of death from measles in different hospitals of the city have reached 100, however, Punjab Health Department says this number is 99.
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The News International

deniers should lose their play rights

Mums and dads who vaccinate their child against diseases like measles, chicken pox or whooping cough are doing the right thing. The problem comes when your child has to sit in a reading circle or play in the sandpit with another tot who has not been ...
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Endemic: Measles outbreak reported in Mansehra

MANSEHRA: A measles outbreak has surfaced in different parts of Mansehra district where dozens of children are said to be infected, sources said on Monday. Fortunately, no deaths have been reported as yet. Locals said several children under the age of ...
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The Express Tribune

State upping enforcement of school pertussis vaccine

FREEPORT — The state is stepping up enforcement of a vaccine requirement this year that all students entering grades six through 12 show proof of a booster vaccination for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. The requirement started last year but was ...
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Levies man protecting polio team in Bajaur shot dead

PESHAWAR: An anti-polio vaccination team was attacked in northwestern Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region, killing one Levies official, DawnNews reported. Unidentified men opened fire on the team in Bajaur's Mamond tehsil killing the Levies man deployed ...
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DAWN.com

Eradicating Polio in India: Portraits

Another influencer, who has been with the campaign for over five years. His motivation for working the polio booths? "I want children to be able to run around happily and freely," he told me in Hindi. He's been stationed with UNICEF health workers for ...
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The Atlantic

Musharraf Granted Bail in Bhutto Assassination Case

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After weeks of legal setbacks, Pakistan's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, won a small victory on Monday amid media speculation that the military is seeking to free the former army chief from a tangle of court cases.
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Measles uptick in Britain Blame Andrew Wakefield's autismvaccine ...

Last month, emergency vaccination clinics were held every weekend in Wales, the epicenter of the measles outbreak in U.K..
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