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Two vaccine study participants die during trials of the first GMO flu vaccine (Video)

Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism (video)

Polish study: Vaccines carry the potential to do tremendous harm (Video)

Uganda: Immunization -- Parents to Face Arrest

Extent of UK Measles Scam Unfolds – Welsh Health Officials Issued False Reports To UK Media of “Confirmed” Measles Cases Which Did Not Exist

Pneumococcal vaccine promoted for heart patients

Rotavirus vaccine developed in India shows strong efficacy

Risk of intussusception after rotavirus vaccine

ACIP releases interim 2013-‘14 influenza season recommendations

Bill Gates Surprised by Eugenics Question (video)

Parents have no 'right' to homeschool their kids, says Justice Department

New study explores providers' perceptions of parental concerns about HPV vaccination - A new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that low-income and minority parents may be more receptive to vaccinating their daughters against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), while white, middle-class parents are more likely to defer the vaccination. The findings appear online in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.

JAMA Viewpoint Examines Challenges in Providing Vaccine for Avian Influenza A(H7N9)

Inovio Pharma Reports On Preclinical Study Of SynCon DNA Vaccine - Quick Facts

SARS-Like Virus Vaccine Unlikely, Experts Say

Government reacts as vaccines run low

Are ‘alternative’ vaccine schedules safer?

Uganda: Children in Danger As Vaccines Run Out

H7N9: Is This Flu Something to Worry About? - A new bird flu virus, called H7N9 for short, is causing serious illness in people in China. Currently there is no ongoing person-to-person spread. Learn why and how CDC is being proactive about this virus.

NEWS SCAN: Flu season poll, low global flu levels, food defense software, India's rotavirus vaccine

NEWS SCAN: Record West Nile deaths, polio in Somalia and Pakistan, global sanitation access

New Strain Of Influenza Requires Funding, Studies To Understand Possible Pandemic Risks - Chief expert in infectious diseases at the University of Utah publishes commentary on recent influenza outbreak in China, and what steps to take to understand and prepare for the effects of the disease.

FLU NEWS SCAN: H7N9 deaths in China, H5N1 in North Korea and Tibet, H9N2 in British turkeys

Evidence for close-contact spread of coronavirus grows

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Doctors Not Informed of Drug Side Effects During Sales Visits

Six new Saudi coronavirus cases include 2 health workers

Study pinpoints pathogens causing biggest diarrhea burden in kids

97% of doctors in UK admit to prescribing useless drugs

What Did She Do? Congress Probes Departure Of FDA Official

The Day Doctors Began to Conquer Smallpox

One of the most celebrated medical anniversaries concerns a country doctor named Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who lived in the tiny village of Berkeley in Gloucestershire, Great Britain. Like every general practitioner of his day, Dr. Jenner attended to ...
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PBS NewsHour (blog)

Immunisation and insurance

It was reported recently that the ministry of Health confirmed a shortage of vaccines for children across the country. This comes shortly after the World Immunization Week. Unfortunately, statistics regarding immunisation in Uganda are not the most ...
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HPV vaccines get price drop for poor countries

"The poorest countries will now have access to a sustainable supply of HPV vaccines for as low as US $4.50 per dose. The same vaccines can cost more than $100 in developed countries and the previous lowest public sector price was $13 per dose," said ...
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Deseret News

Flu vaccine trial aims to help more kids

TRIALS of a new influenza vaccine have begun in Brisbane with researchers hopeful it will help more children effectively fight the illness. The new vaccine comes as experts warn it is better to be immunised sooner rather than later, with flu season ...
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Walkers brave bad weather for Osmotherley meningitis walk

WALKERS of all ages put their best foot forward for a hike designed to raise awareness of meningitis. More than 50 people, from children to grandparents, took part in Meningitis UK's Big Stroll North East in Osmotherley near Northallerton on Sunday ...
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Tracking vaccine scares a challenge for health authorities

“Bad news stories damage vaccination programmes as much as biological hazards, and these stories evolve over minutes or hours, needing immediate action,” said University of Toronto public health specialists Natasha Crowcroft and Kwame McKenzie, in a ...
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals DNA Vaccine Against Ebola and Marburg Filoviruses ...

Because these viruses could potentially be easily transmitted, result in high mortality rates and cause a major public health impact, various agencies are seeking solutions for public health preparedness. A DNA vaccine could offer faster design and ...
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first made in india rotavirus vaccine cost just around rs 50

M K Bhan, who pioneered the project after local scientists discovered a localised rotavirus 23 years ago in a New Delhi hospital, said the development was a boon for India's creaky public health service. "Total 25 percent of all diarrhoeal admissions ...
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Immunization + New Student Requirements | Emmanuel College ...

Learn more about immunization and new student requirements at Emmanuel College.
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Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines: Interim ...

This report summarizes recommendations approved on February 21, 2013, by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the use of influenza ...
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Norwin School District under fire for handling of chicken pox outbreak

Norwin High School students who were excluded from school on Monday because they did not have proof that they have been immunized against chickenpox, or that they are not at risk of contacting the virus, are expected to be in class on Tuesday.
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Today in healthcare: Tuesday 14 May

Public Health Wales has issued a warning that MMR vaccine uptake remains too low to eliminate measles in Wales. It says there have been 20 new cases of measles in the area of South Wales affected by the measles outbreak since last Thursday – bringing ...
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Should We Be Worried About This Brooklyn Measles Outbreak?

Well, here's something I thought I'd never be typing, in 2013: there's a measles outbreak in Brooklyn. Huh. As far as the "should we worry about it" question, well, yes and no. Probably not, in the sense that the outbreak is mostly contained to 21 ...
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The L Magazine

PPAF launch campaign to prevent measles

KARACHI - Keeping in view the outbreak of measles and necessary preventive measures in the province, the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is airing public service messages aimed at sensitising communities about the importance of immunisation, ...
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Swansea measles: Cases rise by 20 to 1094

Measles cases in the Swansea epidemic have risen by 20 in the last five days to 1,094 as health chiefs warn the uptake of MMR is too low to eliminate the disease in Wales. Public Health Wales (PHW) continues to warn that the outbreak may spread.
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BBC News

Wild poliovirus reported in Somalia

The country's first case since March 2007, genetic sequencing is underway to determine the origin of the virus. In response to the outbreak, an immunization campaign is scheduled to take place 14-16 May, aimed at reaching more than 350,000 children in ...
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Rotary International

Taliban Realizes Vaccination Is The Only Way To End Polio, Ends War Against ...

The announcement emerges weeks after the Afghanistan government decided to initiate a polio campaign to immunize eight million children between six months and five years. Though the campaign is being funded by the American organization USAID, the ...
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Understanding different forms of hepatitis - from News-Medical.Net

Although no cure exists for hepatitis B, treatment options are available and a vaccine can prevent the disease. Vaccination is recommended for infants; children who weren't vaccinated in infancy; people being treated for a sexually transmitted ...
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New study explores providers' perceptions of parental concerns about HPV ...

Immigrants, especially those from Latin America, viewed the vaccination more positively because they had experience with vaccine-preventable diseases and cervical cancer in their home countries. While providers did not note any difference in the sexual ...
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Shortage of yellow fever vaccine hits holiday-goers

HYDERABAD: Holiday-goers, who are planning trips to Africa or parts of South America this summer, are struggling to get yellow fever vaccination as the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), the only designated centre in the state authorised to ...
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Rotavirus vaccines can save millions of lives

Expanding access to vaccines for rotavirus could save tens of thousands of lives and help avoid hundreds of thousands of hospitalisations, thereby improving the lives of children and families while at the same time reducing significant burden on the ...
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Times of India

New dollar-a-dose vaccine cuts life-threatening rotavirus complications by half

So the positive results announced today for a Phase III clinical trial of a rotavirus vaccine developed and manufactured in India are great news. The new vaccine cut cases of severe rotavirus-induced diarrhea by more than half – 56 percent – during the ...
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Scope (blog)

India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine

The Department of Biotechnology said Tuesday that phase III trials of Rotavac showed a 56 percent decline in severe diarrhea caused by the rotavirus. Vaccine producer Bharat Biotech has said it would sell Rotavac for $1 a dose. Health officials said ...
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Risk of intussusception after rotavirus vaccine

A very low risk of intussusception exists after rotavirus vaccination, usually 3 to 6 days after the first vaccine dose, but the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks. A recently published study looked at the number of incidents of ...
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Lyme disease vaccine trials show promise

The results of a phase 1/2 clinical trial in Europe of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine shows to be promising and well tolerated, according to a research paper published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The vaccine was shown to produce ...
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Tracking vaccine scares

Northern Nigeria saw rumours that the polio vaccine was part of a Western conspiracy to sterilize Muslims, preventing polio's eradication in the country and leading to the disease's reappearance in surrounding countries where it had already been ...
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Taliban ends its war on polio vaccine volunteers

Comments. Email; Print; Font Size. Zubair Babakarkhail – 14 May 2013. THE TALIBAN has ended its war on polio vaccination workers and admitted that immunisation is the only way to protect children from the disease.
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SARS-Like Virus Vaccine Unlikely

At 1 p.m., ET today, ABC News' chief health and medical editor, Dr. Richard Besser, will moderate a tweet chat to explain which vaccinations adults should get, at what age and why. Guest tweeters include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Botswana's Bazezuru tribe clashes with government over immunisation

The Bazezuru community has sworn, again, that they will defy a government directive that compels people to take their children for immunisation. The notorious tribe has, in the past, told government that God is the answer to their health problems and ...
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Africa Review

Merck, GSK cut price of cervical cancer shots for poor countries - GlobalPost

The new record low price for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines should mean millions of girls in developing countries can be protected against the disease, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI) said on Thursday. "By 2020 we hope to ...
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Will Cheaper HPV Shots Be the Difference Between Life and Death?

It is hoped that a dramatic and historic price cut on leading HPV vaccines will help immunize millions more young women in developing countries and combat cervical cancer rates, but is this change one that should be praised or rallied against as not ...
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Prevalence of Flu and Use of Flu Shots Last Winter Fairly Typical of Last Decade

NEW YORK, May 14, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ -- Last winter's flu season was fairly typical of other winters over the last decade, with the prevalence of the flu and the number of people who had flu shots both fairly close to the averages for that time period.
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Lottie set to come home

ISLE of Wight youngster Lottie Rann, who was paralysed after contracting meningitis, is due to return home next week. Lottie, 11, was enjoying a family holiday in the Lake District last spring when she was struck down with meningitis for the second ...
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Isle of Wight County Press

India unveils vacccine for deadly diarrhoea virus

"Total 25 per cent of all diarrhoeal admissions would be prevented by this and that means you will have 25 per cent less diarrhoeal illnesses of severe nature in India which is a very substantial public health gain," he said. "We have a good vaccine ...
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Channel News Asia

Measles threat 'remains high' across Wales, health officials warn

Public Health Wales said the uptake of the MMR vaccine across the country is still not high enough to tackle the Swansea-based measles epidemic, as the number of cases in the outbreak reached 1,094. Public Health Wales said a 95% uptake of the vaccine ...
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WalesOnline

Protocol 007: Merck Denies Fraud, But Feds Seek New Mumps Vaccine as ...

But the government seems anxious despite Merck's reassurances – just as the whistleblower suit was unsealed, Age of Autism has learned, health officials awarded almost $2 million to a research team at the University of Georgia. The goal: Find a much ...
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Measles epidemic: 10000 teens still unvaccinated in Wales

Public Health Wales is concerned that the measles outbreak may spread 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 – an increase of 13 in ...
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Uganda grapples with paediatric vaccine shortages

“We are getting reports and calls from all the districts about the stock-outs of all types of anti-immunization vaccines. They don't have anti-TB [tuberculosis] vaccines, anti-tetanus, polio [vaccines]. The ministry is faced with inadequate funding for ...
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Get vaccinated early to avoid cervical cancer, say experts

This is the grim picture portrayed by health experts in the Capital on Monday in efforts to drive home the importance of vaccination against the disease. Over 99 per cent of cervical cancer cases are linked to genital infection with Human ...
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Irish Scientists' Discovery Could Lead to Develop a new Whooping Cough Vaccine

Irish Scientists' Discovery Could Lead to Develop a new Whooping Cough Vaccine. A discovery by Irish scientists could reduce the chances of contacting whooping cough. The disease is highly contagious and caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis.
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TopNews United States

Vaccination offer in bid to keep measles at bay

Parents of children who have not been vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) will receive letters from their GP in the coming weeks urging them to take action to help prevent the outbreak, which has so far topped more than 1,000 cases ...
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Burton Mail

India announces low-cost rotavirus vaccine

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government has announced the successful development of a low-cost vaccine proven effective in preventing the deadly diarrhea-causing rotavirus. Rotavirus is the most lethal cause of childhood diarrhea and is responsible for ...
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Pneumococcal vaccine promoted for heart patients

The pneumococcal disease vaccine is recommended for people older than 18 who have underlying conditions – including chronic heart disease – that put them at higher risk for complications from infection, File said. The vaccine also is recommended for ...
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Global Leaders Unite to End Polio -- But Where Is the US? | Commentary

Since 1988, the number of new polio cases worldwide has plummeted from 350,000 cases to 223 last year. With only 26 so far in 2013, we have the smallest number of cases in the fewest countries ever, creating a dramatic opportunity for eradication ...
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CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE FOR SCHOOL GIRLS TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY

Girls aged between 9 to 13 years who haven't had their first sexual encounter will start receiving the cervical cancer vaccine. Primary school girls in Kitui will be the first to receive the vaccine in the pilot project conducted by the public health ...
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Rotavirus Vaccine Developed in India Demonstrates Strong Efficacy

We are thankful to all the partners in the Rotavirus Vaccine Development Project—DBT, the Indian Council of Medical Research, PATH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NIH , CDC, and Stanford University—for their valuable support in this unique ...
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Oregon lawmakers wade into vaccination debate

Several studies have found no association between vaccines and autism, and the CDC has discredited the idea that autism is linked to immunization. Jennifer Margulis, an Ashland author and mother of four, said American children are over-vaccinated.
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Potential Lyme Disease Vaccine Shows Promise - Medical News Today

The finding was published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and revealed that the vaccine resulted in significant antibodies against all targeted species of Borrelia - the agent that causes Lyme disease in the United States and Europe. Lyme ...
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Over 80 children are given jabs against measles

MORE than 80 children who missed out on measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations are now protected against the diseases after attending an immunisation clinic on Saturday. The Health department invited the parents of more than 500 children aged ...
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Jersey Evening Post

UK Department of Health Deliberately Exposes ... - Age of Autism

By John Stone Is the vaccine program there to prevent harm or to foist commercial products on a captive market at the public expense? The parrot cry of health ...
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Dachel Media Update: Mother's Day, DSM-V - AGE OF AUTISM

By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. May 14, 2013, Telegraph (Australia): Crackpot crusaders putting our kids at risk May 12, 2013, Rock Hill ...
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Citing backlog, state health agency pleads for funds

Last year, more than 740 people were sickened, and 55 died, in a national fungal meningitis outbreak that was linked to a Framingham specialty pharmacy. The pharmacy had not been regularly inspected by the state pharmacy board, which is overseen by ...
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Boston Globe

Toddle waddle for Menigitis Trust

Anne Currie, the Meningitis Trust's Director of Fundraising, added: “We're really grateful to Carville Primary school for holding a Toddle Waddle. “As a charity that receives no government funding, we rely entirely on the initiative and energy of our ...
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Bereaved grandmother to "give something back" to Meningitis Trust

A KIDDERMINSTER grandmother will be hosting a charity night for the Meningitis Trust after her step-granddaughter died from the disease at the age of three. Beverley Smith, 48, has also witnessed her daughter and step-grandson suffer with Meningitis in ...
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Kidderminster Shuttle

Shasta County: Child likely died from meningitis

Shasta County's health officer says a local child likely died from meningitis late last week. Andrew Deckert, the county's health officer, said Monday afternoon it's still not official, but tests indicate the child probably died from meningococcal ...
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Swansea measles: Drop in MMR clinic attendance sparks concern

Drop-in clinics have been held for more than a month but only 381 vaccinations were given last weekend. Public Health Wales (PHW) is "particularly concerned" because 9,000 young people have still not had the jab. The number of local measles cases ...
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BBC News

Hits and Misses: Vaccination rates increasing

WELCOME TREND We've long urged parents to vaccinate their children, rather than give in to fears about inoculations -- and apparently that's finally what's happening. In recent years, Santa Cruz County has posted higher numbers of parents opting out of ...
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Lyme disease vaccine produces substantial immune response in clinical trials

... the results from the trials, “Safety and immunogenicity of a novel multivariant OspA vaccine against Lyme borreliosis in healthy adults: a double-blind, randomized, dose-escalation phase 1/2 trial,” was recently published in The Lancet Infectious ...
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Taliban Now Support Polio Vaccination Campaigns

The United Nations has made a final push to eliminate polio from the face of the planet by 2017, but has faced immense opposition in the three remaining countries where the virus remains endemic, namely Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.
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Medical Daily

About 40 percent of the diarrhea in young children is caused by four bugs ...

Surprisingly, access to clean water did not differ significantly between the ill children and the healthy ones. American children have received an oral rotavirus vaccine since 2006. GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership formerly known as the ...
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Nurses not taking up vaccinations

Despite risk of exposure to influenza and other infectious diseases, vaccine take-up rates among health professionals remains dangerously low. By Amie Larter. Despite almost constant recommendations for an annual influenza vaccination, there has been ...
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Drug Trial for Lyme Disease Vaccine Reports Promising Results

Lyme disease, which is usually contracted via ticks, is an infectious disease that can cause fevers, depression, skin rashes and headaches. Lyme disease can often go untreated and result in worse conditions, which is why it is important for people to ...
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Counsel & Heal

On This Day in History - The Province

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The Province

Government to start vaccination against pneumonia

According to officials at the Child Health Division (CHD) under the Department of Health Services (DoHS), they have been coordinating with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), a global health partnership of public and private ...
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40% injections given to kids unnecessary: WHO

Hyderabad: With only five per cent of injections used for immunisation and the remaining 95 per cent for therapeutic use, children are often subjected to unnecessary injections, say paediatricians of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics. The association ...
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Meningitis Death Reported in Shasta County

Health officials are on alert after a child in Shasta County dies of bacterial meningitis. It happened last week and prompted a full investigation into who was exposed. Because of privacy laws, Shasta Public Health officials can not reveal too much ...
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Anti-vax mum: 'Measles good for you'

Both her children, who are now adults, contracted measles, chickenpox and rubella, while her daughter also had whooping cough when she was four. But Ms Lydall dismissed these as "self-resolving" diseases that could be managed and improved her ...
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For the public

Blue Valley Community Action and Public Health Solution Immunization Clinic: 1-4 p.m., free clinic, outpatient area, Jefferson Community Health Center, 2200 H St., Fairbury. (Use outpatient/emergency door on south side.) Bring all insurance and/or ...
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Beyond the vaccine scrutiny

Immunization Awareness Week has come and gone, but many still struggle to sift through the skepticism surrounding immunization. As we are flooded with vaccination information from our family physicians, immunization campaigns, and the media, it is ...
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McGill Daily

Afghan Taliban support polio vaccination campaign

Afghan Taliban on Monday announced they would support polio vaccinations, but warned foreigners not to participate in the campaigns. The insurgents said they supported all programs "which work for the healthcare of the helpless people of our country." ...
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Students at Bountiful school come down with pertussis

Parents with students at Viewmont High School received notice of the pertussis cases Monday after a letter was sent to them. The letter assured parents that actions are being taken to prevent additional cases, and said vaccinations are the best way to ...
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Health officials launch Toddler Immunization Month

A decision to immunize your toddler is a decision to protect them and the entire community as well,” said Maxwell Ohikhuare, M.D., San Bernardino County Health Officer. “It is never too early to start protecting your child from infectious diseases ...
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A Vaccine for Lyme Disease?

A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the way, following a successful phase 1/2 clinical trial, researchers from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Brookhaven National Laboratory reported in the online journal The Lancet Infectious ...
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Saratoga Springs Rotary Club running 'Posies to End Polio' campaign this month

During the month of May, the club is selling roses in its annual “Posies to End Polio” campaign. In addition, students at Lake Avenue elementary and Maple Avenue middle schools will have a chance to learn about polio vaccination through the Purple ...
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NanoPass Technologies Supports a CDC-Sponsored Phase 3 Study of Polio ...

NanoPass Technologies Ltd. ("NanoPass"), a pioneer in intradermal (into-the-skin or ID) vaccine delivery solutions, is collaborating with the US Center of Disease Control and prevention (CDC) in conducting a large phase 3 trial of polio vaccine in ...
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Initiative to Raise Confidence for Vaccinations

Initiative to Raise Confidence for Vaccinations. Submitted by Nimisha Sachdev on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 06:32. Initiative to Raise Confidence for Vaccinations. Public health officials are really concerned to see a loss of poise in vaccines from general public.
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Vaccine Excise Program Is Critical for Public Health | Commentary ...

On an August night in 1998, our 15-month-old baby girl almost died. Shortly after receiving her measles, mumps and rubella vaccination, she developed a fever that we thought was either a normal response to the shot or possibly a summer ...
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NEWS SCAN: Record West Nile deaths, polio in Somalia and Pakistan, global ...

US states confirmed 5,674 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) disease last year, the highest since 2003, and 286 WNV deaths, the most ever, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today as it released its final 2012 surveillance data. Of ...
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Medical matters: Vaccine holds the key to making measles a thing of the past

The worldwide resurgence in the infectious disease is because of parental concerns about a suggested link between the MMR vaccine and autism. MMR immunisation rates have still not recovered following now discredited research by Andrew Wakefield in ...
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Scientists develop new tool to fight anti-vaccine rumours

According to an article published online first in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, it could help public health officials respond more quickly and effectively to a loss of public confidence in vaccines before it results in vaccination refusals and ...
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Public Enemy, theatre review: QUENTIN LETTS: No felonies for Public Enemy ...

What would Henrik Ibsen have made of the Establishment's trashing of Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who dared to voice doubts about the MMR vaccine? Ibsen's great play Public Enemy (sometimes called Enemy of the People) tells of a doctor, Stockmann, ...
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Daily Mail

Children in Danger As Vaccines Run Out

By December 31, 2012, a cumulative 630,454 children of two years and below had missed immunisation totally or were partially immunised (not completed their infant vaccination series). These numbers will double by the end of June 2013 due to the ...
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Shasta County confirms child may have died from meningitis

Andrew Deckert, the county's health officer, said tests are expected later today or possibly tomorrow that will indicate whether the child died from the disease, which is a form of bacterial meningitis. But Deckert said it is suspected that's what ...
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Preventing another meningitis nightmare

Last year's fungal meningitis outbreak was a nightmare for Tennesseans. We had more than 150 cases and 15 deaths. We did see some real heroism by state officials with the Department of Health, who discovered the problem and worked to help identify the ...
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Elk Valley Times

102 new cases of measles reported from Punjab

102 new cases of measles reported from Punjab. LAHORE: There appears to be no end to measles with 102 new cases reported during the last 24 hours. The number of measles cases reported in Punjab during the last five months has now reached 11,921.
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Measles vaccination campaign a success

ALLAHABAD: In a bid to provide immunity to children against measles, the health department officials on Monday outsourced the vaccination work to as many as 150 vaccinators from different schools of Nursing and Para-Medical institute to make the drive ...
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63% of injections in India unsafe, says study

CHANDIGARH: An international study conducted in 2004 claimed that about 63% of all injections administered in India are unsafe. Fears resurfaced last month, following the mysterious death of a child after immunization. In that context, the workshop on ...
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Free vaccination against cervical cancer for Abu Dhabi women

ABU DHABI // More Emirati women will be vaccinated against cervical cancer thanks to the expansion of a free immunisation scheme. The emirate-wide programme will target Emirati women between the ages of 18 and 26 from June 1. Cervical cancer is the ...
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Pertussis outbreak announced at Davis County school

By Wendy Leonard, Deseret News. Published: Monday, May 13 2013 4:30 p.m. MDT. An empty bottle of Tetanus, Diphthera and Pertussis, (whooping cough) vaccine is seen at Inderkum High School in Sacramento. Calif. Rich Pedroncelli, AP. Enlarge photo» ...
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Deseret News

A handful of pathogens are causing most diarrhoeal deaths and illness in ...

"Targeting these pathogens with existing interventions, such as the rotavirus vaccine, as well as developing new therapies and treating the malnutrition that follows MSD, could have a large impact on the mortality and morbidity caused by this ...
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Children in danger as vaccines run outPublish Date: May 13, 2013

Experiences from polio eradication and more recently measles elimination has shown that virus seeding can occur from anywhere in the world, without any prior warnings, provided you have adequate numbers of un- or under-immunised populations.
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New Vision

Somalia records its first wild polio case since 2007

Meanwhile, Pakistan's rugged North Waziristan region recorded its first polio case since local Taliban leaders halted vaccinations there last year. The ban was a response to US drone strikes in the mountainous region (see 'Taliban halts polio ...
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Nature.com (blog)

Lenny Kravitz: "Eradicate polio in our lifetime"

Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and UNICEF supporter Lenny Kravitz asks for your help in making sure 100 per cent of children are immunized against polio and other preventable diseases. Produced by Priyanka Pruthi.
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More than 80 children get MMR jab at free Jersey clinic

The health department wrote to parents of those children in school years five to eight, who had not received both doses of the MMR vaccine. Children require two doses of the MMR jab to be fully immunised, usually given at 12 months and three years.
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A New Vaccine To Protect Against Multiple Strains of H7N9 Bird Flu Virus

Mital developed vaccines for previous strains of bird flu and still works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The strain behind the present outbreak does not seem to be easily transmitted from human to human, Mittal pointed out, ...
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Study: Many Parents of Teens Opting Out of HPV Vaccine

According to latest medical research, HPV vaccine can prevent cervical cancer and it is therefore recommended by the Centers of Disease Control & Prevention for 11 or 12-year-olds teens. It has been found in latest study that many parents of teens are ...
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New global surveillance tool detectsmonitors public concerns about vaccines in ...

Writing in a linked Comment, Natasha Crowcroft, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Public Health Ontario in Canada and Kwame Julius McKenzie from the University of Toronto in Canada say it is time to move beyond passive responses to vaccine safety events ...
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Lyme disease vaccination: are we ready to try again? : The Lancet ...

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 10 May 2013 ... confirmed the suitability of OspA vaccination for prevention of human Lyme disease.
www.thelancet.com/journals/…/PIIS1473-3099(13)70085-9

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