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Andrew Wakefield’s Lancet Paper – Lancet Ombudsman “there is a scientific argument which is continuing and has yet to be sorted out to everyone’s satisfaction. “ - ChildHealthSafety

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J&J Gets A Shot In The Arm From WHO Over Vaccine Deaths by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

Yellowknife Catholic school board votes to allow HPV shots - Vaccinations for sexually-transmitted infection to begin in September (video)

BMJ Doctors’ understanding of rheumatoid disease does not align with patients’ experiences Rapid Responses by Hugh Mann, Physician Retired, Eagle Rock, MO, USA

Alternate vaccine schedules are not safer and should be obsolete

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Ceasing transport of live birds may be key to preventing spread of H7N9 infection in humans

50,000 MMR vaccinations so far in battle to halt Welsh measles epidemic

The Dream of an HIV Vaccine

Why You Should Be Investing In DNA Vaccination Technology And Inovio Pharmaceuticals

Vaccines can’t substitute public healthcare

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The Most Serious Kind Of Drug Recall Is Increasing

Motsoaledi urges medical schemes to pay for cancer vaccines

SCH holds workshop on vaccine management

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach - The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit

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Rising feed costs have many livestock producers, including shepherds, looking for less-expensive alternatives to traditional feedstuffs. However, some of these changes may result in animal health problems such as polio if diets are not balanced ...
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Need cautious effort to eradicate polio: Experts

"India reported the last wild polio virus type 1 case in Howrah, West Bengal, on Jan 13, 2011. If the eradication effort is complacent now, polio could rebound quickly, potentially paralysing thousands of children a year," Deepak Kapur, chairman India ...
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Alternate vaccine schedules are not safer and should be obsolete

Committee on Infectious Diseases. Recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule—United States, 2013. Pediatrics. 2013;131(2):397-398. 3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ten great public health achievements in the ...
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Pennsylvania Physicians Urge State Legislators to Support Immunization ...

There are more than 2,500 licensed pharmacists throughout the state who are ready and able to increase vaccination rates – with many in Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Health Provider Shortage Areas (HSPAs) where oftentimes the local ...
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More than 3000 given MMR in Merthyr and Rhondda Cynon Taf

More than 3,000 people in Merthyr and Rhondda Cynon Taf were given the MMR vaccine in an attempt to stem the spread of measles. But Public Health Wales says it's still concerned that only half of these were given to people aged between 10 and 18 - the ...
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The World Small Animal Veterinary Association Recommends Canine VacciCheck

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) Vaccination Guidelines Group has recently published the "Vaccination Guidelines for New Puppy Owners". The guidelines' aim is to ensure that dogs are protected from infectious disease, while ...
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A group called the GAVI Alliance has managed to dramatically slash the cost of the vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer from $100 a dose to $4.50.
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My close shave with meningitis and A&E points to a system that is broken

So as not to concern my wife, I waited until she stepped out for a moment and implored the doctor to at least consider the fact that I had almost all the known symptoms of meningitis. This was rejected out of hand and to make matters worse I was told ...
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Vaccine reduces pneumococcal disease but not bacterial population

The collaboration between the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health sequenced the whole genomes of Streptococcus pneumoniae taken from clinical samples in the seven years after the introduction of a pneumococcus ...
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MMR vaccination taken up by more than 50000 in two months

Public Health Wales said fewer than a third of the non-routine vaccinations were given to people aged between 10 and 18 – the age group hardest hit by the outbreak – and continued to warn that further outbreaks of measles are possible while uptake in ...
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Uganda: Parents Are Being Forced to Vaccinate Their Children

“I'm going to consult with my people on what penalty should be given to parents who do not bring their children for immunization because some are just reluctant ...
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Students Host Meningitis Immunization Clinics - UPDATE

Idaho's metropolitan research university, Boise State offers over 200 graduate and undergraduate degrees in the state's political, business and cultural center.
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Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) Was For Free Speech Before They Were ...

Editor's Note: Yesterday, Anne Dachel took apart the recent piece in the Columbia Journalism Review that trashed "balanced" coverage of the autism-vaccines link. Back in 2005, they were much more tolerant of that hoary old first amendment thingee ...
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Measles kills two more, toll reaches 80 in Punjab

LAHORE - Two more children passed away on Wednesday from measles, bringing the number of deaths from the disease to 80 in Punjab, medical officials said. The two kids died in Children Hospital Lahore. Some 9,000 children have been affected by ...
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Vaccinations continue as latest measles figures due

MMR vaccination clinics for children aged 4-11 are being held in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan this evening as the latest measles figures are due to be released. The two areas are not currently affected by the ongoing measles outbreak, which ...
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ITV News

Survivors Call for End to Polio in Nigeria

The Association of Polio Survivors of Nigeria has made a fervent call to all parents in Nigeria to get all their children below the age of five vaccinated against the polio virus in each and every immunization round to save them from the crippling disease.
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Man celebrates birthday with fundraiser

An Aberdeen man wants to use his birthday to raise money for an immunization project. Glenn Jakober, who will turn 70 on May 23, is raising funds to support Kiwanis International's efforts to eliminate maternal neonatal tetanus in developing countries.
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Pennsylvania Physicians Urge State Legislators to Support Immunization ...

Pennsylvania last took a step to help ensure greater availability of critical vaccines in 2002 by amending the "Pharmacy Act" to allow pharmacists to deliver immunizations to individuals over the age of 18. Meanwhile, 39 other states have passed ...
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Why You Should Be Investing In DNA Vaccination Technology And Inovio ...

Historically vaccines are thought of as one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, as is shown by the eradication of Smallpox, near eradication of Polio, and the controlling of Hepatitis A/B, typhus, and rotavirus. However, certain major ...
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Nurse gave wrong vaccine to patient

She also admitted providing a patient with a vaccination she did not need, administering an adult vaccination to a child, and failing to consistently record information regarding smoking status, family history and ethnicity. She denied three of the ...
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Tetanus eliminated in over 30 countries at high risk – UN and partners

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Flu poses more risk for Guillain-Barre Syndrome than flu vaccine

One case of the Guillain-Barre Syndrome occurs for every one million flu shots compared to one case for every 60,000 cases of the flu, according to research published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. GBS is a rare disorder in ...
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Surveillance tool aims to detect, monitor public vaccine concerns

Real-time monitoring and evaluation of vaccine concerns could help immunization programs create more effective strategies to address public concerns, according to recent study results published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. “The Internet has ...
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Somalia: WHO Investigates Possible Polio Case in Somalia

The World Health Organization reported the investigation of a possible wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case in Somalia's Banadir region. A 32-month-old girl had become ill due to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP – essentially, muscle weakness or paralysis ...
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Taliban drops campaign against polio vaccine

When scientists set a 2018 target for eradicating polio last month, fresh memories of the violence against vaccinators offset the optimism. Short, low-profile campaigns--almost guerilla-like--were proposed as the safest way to vaccinate. Now the ...
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The uphill climb – Polio no barrier to a life of adventure and wonder

Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sonoma Valley, The California Martial Arts Institute, The Challenged Athletes Foundations and Top End Wheelchair Invacare, the bike tour's purpose is to raise funds and awareness about the ongoing fight against Polio.
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Sonoma Valley Sun

National Orientation and Planning meet on Polio begins

Deepak Kapur, Chairman India National Polio Plus Committee said India had reported the last wild Polio case in Howrah, West Bengal, on January 13, 2011 and if the eradication efforts were complacent now, polio could rebound quickly, potentially ...
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Donation to fund HPV vaccines for youth

The Kern County Public Health Services Department also offers the HPV vaccine at 1800 Mount Vernon Ave. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The department takes a variety of payments, including Medi-Cal, cash and private insurance.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation ...
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50000 MMR vaccinations so far in battle to halt Welsh measles epidemic

"Now is not the time to be complacent and it is never too late to catch up on missed MMR doses. "We are pleased to see that many parents who have refused the MMR vaccination for their children in the past are now coming forward and we would urge other ...
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Bird Flu Vaccine: Is China's Deadly H7N9 Virus Threat On The Decline?

Live Science reports that researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, have already put together a vaccine against the bird flu virus. Not wanting to lose valuable time, the CDC manufactured its own vaccine in early April ...
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New Vaccine Protects Against Multiple Strains of H7N9 Bird Flu Virus - iTechPost

As of May 10, 2013, China National Health and Family Planning Commission reported a total of 131 confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus and the Taipei Centers for Disease Control (Taipei CDC) one case. Middle-aged and ...
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US accolade for developing diarrhoea vaccine

New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Wednesday congratulated India for developing an indigenous rotavirus vaccine for prevention of diarrhoea. “We congratulate the programme for appropriate technology in ...
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Novartis cooks up a quicker flu vaccine

The new process is much faster, in part because researchers can now use the genetic code of a virus to design its vaccine, instead of having to wait weeks for the actual flu strain to be shipped from wherever it has broken out. Full story for ...
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Deadly Snail Found in Texas; Residents Ordered Not to Touch Giant Snails ...

A deadly snail has been found in Houston, Texas, with authorities warning that it could be deadly to touch the type of snail as it seems to be carrying the deadly meningitis. The snail found is originally from Africa, and is a species of large land ...
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Senate pushes bill to regulate compound pharmacies

(AP) WASHINGTON - Senate lawmakers are pushing ahead with a bill that would bring new federal oversight to large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. The bill introduced Tuesday by Democrats and ...
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False alarm over meningitis scare at Widnes school

The Bankfield student, who cannot be named, was rushed to hospital on Sunday with suspected meningococcal meningitis. The disease, which causes inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord, is not highly infectious but can spread through ...
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Meningitis outbreak: Sen. Alexander, others file drug-compounding regulation bill

The legislation is in response to the fungal meningitis outbreak and related illnesses stemming from contaminated medicine made by New England Compounding Center that has sickened 741 people in the United States, with 55 deaths. Sen.
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School nurses called in to fight Shropshire measles outbreak

The measles outbreak is a particular problem in Oswestry and health bosses said school nurses have been working with GP practices to help vaccinate children and young people who may not have had their full course of the MMR vaccine. Health chiefs say ...
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Measles: Staff sent home to stop spread

Nurses, doctors and theatre staff at threat of measles have been ordered HOME as bosses mount a frantic battle to stop an epidemic. The drastic move comes after NHS Ayrshire & Arran RAN OUT of measles immunity test kits. They are worried the contagious ...
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Swansea measles: Fresh MMR jab plea ahead of Urdd event

Less than two weeks before thousands of children descend on an area of Wales hit by a measles epidemic, public health chiefs have renewed their plea for youngsters to have two MMR jabs. Up to 100,000 visitors are expected at the 2013 Urdd Eisteddfod in ...
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CORE Physicians' Smith championed

EXETER -- The Immunization Program in the Division of Public Health Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services celebrates the second New Hampshire Childhood Immunization Champion, Angela Smith. She is Associate ...
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Landmark Reached in Fight Against Tetanus, As Over Half of 59 Priority ...

Since 1999, more than 118 million women of child-bearing age have been vaccinated against tetanus in 52 countries. Many of these women received their tetanus vaccine as part of an integrated campaign which included other life- saving interventions for ...
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Pertussis cases on the rise in Montana

Glacier County Health Nurse Carol McDivitt, RN-BSN, said Glacier County has experienced one case of pertussis so far this year, and the patient picked it up out-of-county. She said that case was treated quickly and the people who had contact with the ...
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Measles outbreak: Race to give a million children MMR jabs - Guardian

ONE million children who missed out on the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine around a decade ago are to be targeted in a national campaign to raise the level of protection against measles. Alarmed by the Swansea outbreak, where almost 900 ...
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Another Child with Autism Wanders Drowns Where is the Outcry AGE ...

Managing Editor's Note: This story below brings into focus the reason AofA exists. For the children (of any age) with autism and their parents, families, ...
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Why You Should Worry about a Case of Polio in Somalia

On May 13, the Taliban issued a statement declaring that it would no longer target polio vaccine workers and is ordering its fighters to help in vaccination campaigns. The group had previously marked vaccine workers for death because of fears that they ...
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NJ Recognizes May As National Hepatitis Awareness Month

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending that everyone born during 1945 through 1965, also known as baby boomers, get a blood test for hepatitis C,” said Health Commissioner Mary E. O'Dowd. “Baby boomers are 5 times more ...
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Top-selling author to discuss the afterlife

1 book, “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife,” is the story of his near-fatal bout of e.coli meningitis, which put him in a six-day coma. It was during those days, his brain stopped functioning and he had what he says was a ...
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Meet the fastest couple on Earth

Phil Wicks, 29, contracted meningitis when he was 10 months old, only taking up running when he went to university, and entered the London marathon to raise money for Meningitis Research. His wife, Emily, 28, has previously undergone heart surgery and ...
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Eisteddfod visitors urged to get vaccinated

Public Health Wales is encouraging young people to get vaccinated before they go to the Urdd Eisteddfod. Measles is still circulating in Wales. There have been 20 new cases notified to Public Health Wales since last Thursday making a total of 1,257 ...
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Measles outbreak is 'under control'

Sponsored by Hardwick. Measles outbreak is 'under control'. editorial image. Published on 16/05/2013 06:00. HEALTH chiefs are confident that the measles outbreak in the borough is under control after only a further six confirmed cases have been reported.
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Measles outbreak: Pakistan may face international travel ban

Documents obtained by The Express Tribune showed that out of 7,000-plus laboratory confirmed measles cases in 2012, a staggering 60% of children were not given even a single dose of the measles vaccine, while 20% were inoculated with only one dose.
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Two kids die week after 'victory' - The Nation

On April 28, Punjab Health Minister Salima Hashmi said the Health Department would start vaccination campaign against measles across Punjab in June, although the situation on ground calls for immediate vaccination to save precious lives. On April 30 ...
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Australians buy more than 3000 tetanus vaccines this Mother's Day

THE fight against maternal and neo-natal tetanus has received a much needed shot in the arm with Australians buying more than 3,300 vaccinations this Mother's Day. A partnership between UNICEF Australia and Kiwanis and promoted by television ...
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Whooping cough hits north Utah County schools - Daily Herald

"A person attending this school was recently diagnosed with pertussis," health officials wrote in a letter to parents. "Pertussis (whooping cough) is a contagious disease characterized by cold symptoms such as runny nose and an irritating cough. This ...
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Homeless people find hope at county resource fair

She said her pertussis shot at Wednesday's fair would enable her to give back to those programs. “I'd like to be a foster grandparent, that's why I'm doing this,” Jaurique said. “I want to feel needed. I want to feel like I can make a difference.” Dan ...
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Evidence Based IBD: Andrew Wakefield and Crohns Disease

Andrew Wakefield, a former physician at the center of the anti-vaccination controversy, had a fairly prolific publishing and research history before his fall from ...
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Health care workers attacked in 22 nations

Also extremely worrying, it said, were the attacks on health workers trying to provide routine vaccinations, pointing out that "this means setbacks for eradicating diseases such as measles and polio." While the report does not name names, Pakistan and ...
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Govt earmarks additional N4.5bn for immunization - Guardian

The Ministry of Health stressed that the money has been approved by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to strengthen Nigeria's Routine Immunisation (RI) and Polio Eradication Programme (PEP). According to a statement by the Minister of State for Health, ...
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Dachel Media Update Purdue DSM5 NVIC AGE OF AUTISM

By Anne Dachel May 15, 2013, WISH-TV, Indianapolis, IN: Purdue seeks infants for child autism study May 14, 2013, TV8 Grand Rapids, MI: More autism, ...
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Hepatitis B cases increase in region

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a decrease of 82 percent in rates of the disease in the United States since 1990. The CDC attributes that nationwide decline – especially in children – to routine vaccines given to infants since then.
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Online health assessment urged for baby boomers

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has the assessment online at http://www.cdc.gov/HEPATITIS/riskassessment . Dreyzehner said it's important to know if one has any form of hepatitis. The A and B forms can be prevented with vaccines ...
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Cervical Cancer Vaccine for Girls On Cards

We are pleased to be expanding our commitment to GAVI by delivering our cervarix (HPV) vaccine to help protect girls in the developing world," said Mr Weber. "This continues our significant commitment to make our vaccines accessible to as many people ...
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What Do Chiropractors Know About Vaccinations?

In their efforts to become primary care doctors, chiropractors in all parts of the world (save for Canada) have failed to include support for vaccinations as an essential public health measure, and have even continued to argue against their use. All we ...
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A dose in time

This vaccine is a tremendous achievement for the PPP model in public health, for the Indian scientific and public health community and their global partners. It has taken 28 years of patient work, after a non-pathogenic strain of the virus was ...
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How early can a child be diagnosed with autism?

A: With careful evaluation by an expert, diagnosing a child younger than 2 with autism is possible. More often, however, autism is identified in children between the ages of 2 and 3. The signs and symptoms of autism vary quite a bit, depending on the ...
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Two more measles patients die

Two more measles patients die. LAHORE/RAWALPINDI: Two more children passed away due to dreaded measles here, counting the number of deaths to 80 in Punjab. According to hospital sources, the two kids died in Children Hospital Lahore and many ...
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Two more children die of measles in Lahore - The Frontier Post

LAHORE – A three-month-old child Talha from Vihari and 16-moth-old Saif from Manga Mandi area died of measles at Children's Hospital in Lahore on Wednesday. Dozens of children suffering from measles are still under treatment at various hospitals in the ...
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Dog owner issued vaccination citation

The dog's owner was not charged with any crime, although Sheriff's deputies asked the Peninsula Humane Society to cite him because his dogs were not vaccinated against rabies. The family reportedly owned several dogs. The San Mateo County ...
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South Windsor Rabies Vaccination Clinic Saturday

The South Windsor Police Animal Control Officers will be hosting a low cost rabies vaccination clinic on Saturday, May 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Fire Headquarters. Company 1- Fire Headquarters is located at 1175 Ellington Road (Route 30) and the event is ...
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Low-cost rotavirus vaccine could save thousands of lives, researchers say

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Rotavirus vaccine development a significant victory for Indian scientists: US

US today congratulated India for developing an indigenous rotavirus vaccine for prevention of diarrhoea, terming it a significant victory for the country's scientific community. The Government of India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Bharat ...
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Rotavirus vaccine could cure diarrhoea in kids

The vaccine originated from an attenuated (weakened) strain of rotavirus that was isolated from an Indian child at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 1985-86. Since then, partners have included DBT, Bharat Biotech, the US ...
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Vaccines Aren't Just for Kids

Between 40,000 and 50,000 adults die each year from vaccine-preventable illnesses, according to a 2010 report from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health. The Centers for ...
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book review: Apps reveals how polio affected his life

The full title of Jerry Apps' latest book is Limping Through Life – A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir. During a recent author event, Apps described the book “as one of the most difficult books I've written.” Since the book has hit the book stores, Apps has ...
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High number of pertussis cases reported in Montana

The vast majority of cases have been in school-aged children, and Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) officials say they have determined that many of these cases were not up to date on their pertussis vaccinations. DPPHS adds that ...
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Port Talbot MMR take-up “concerning”

NOT enough people are taking up the MMR vaccine in Port Talbot, doctors have warned. Take-up of the MMR vaccine is not high enough, say doctors. Swansea, Neath and Bridgend are also falling short as the number of measles cases continues to rise in ...
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Pertussis confirmed in Santa Rosa by State Health Department

Most individuals receive the pertussis vaccine as children as part of the recommended series of shots that are required for entry into public school in the state of Florida. The Centers for Disease control recommends that children be immunized at 2, 4 ...
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Flu carries higher risk of paralytic disease than flu shot

The new findings, published in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, show that one additional case of GBS occurs after every million people who get a flu shot. But an additional case of GBS springs up in every 60,000 people who are ...
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The Eradication of Smallpox is a Blueprint for Polio's Demise

The year 2018 has recently been declared our new target year for eliminating polio from the world by the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and Rotary International. It is clear that the next five years will pose no small challenge; we ...
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Yellowknife Catholic School Board to vote on HPV vaccine

The Yellowknife Catholic School Board will vote Wednesday night on whether to offer the HPV vaccine in their schools. Human papillomavirus is a sexually transmitted disease which has been linked to cervical cancer. The vaccine has been controversial ...
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HPV vaccine could be coming to YK catholic schools

Yellowknife, NWT - By this time Thursday, the road could be clear for the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine to be implemented into Yellowknife Catholic Schools. The YCS board is slated to vote on the issue Wednesday night after voting against it ...
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Internet speeds flu vaccine, study finds

Flu pandemic vaccine manufacturing could begin in days, not months, potentially saving great numbers of lives in case of a severe outbreak, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine. Starting with digitized viral ...
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Pharmacist can give your flu jab

Miss Gilbert is the first South Canterbury pharmacist to complete the full vaccinator training, meaning she is one of around 200 pharmacists nationwide who can now give a flu shot. And many an orange has given its life for her training, she jokes ...
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South Sudan moves to curb meningitis threat

Health minister, Michael Milly Hussein confirmed the meningitis outbreak, which has affected some 90 people, mostly in Upper Nile State. "There are 90 cases of meningitis that have been confirmed in Malakal town in Upper Nile State" Milly said ...
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Senate pushes bill to regulate compound pharmacies

Senate pushes bill to regulate compound pharmacies. Senate lawmakers are pushing ahead with a bill that would bring new federal oversight to large specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak last year. The Associated ...
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Woman becomes 'possessed' after contracting meningitis

Miss Vaughan, from Great Barr, Birmingham had in fact been struck with Meningo-Encephalitis – a form of viral Meningitis. But medics were baffled by her condition after numerous tests came back negative in March 2007. The retail worker spent three ...
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HealthMap identifies online vaccine misinformation in real time

She and colleagues hope that systems such as HealthMap can help identify early signs of vaccine misinformation, so that public health officials can act immediately to dispel unfounded fears. Although the current study was unable to assess the long-term ...
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10000 Gwent kids still need measles jab

GWENT is at the centre of experts' concerns about a possible future outbreak of measles as thousands of children remain unvaccinated. Despite more than 9,600 non-routine MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccinations being given in the area in recent ...
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Measles Outbreak Hits Ultra-Orthodox In Borough Park

The New York City Department of Health is warning of a growing measles outbreak centered in ultra-orthodox communities in Borough Park. DNAinfo is reporting that 21 outbreaks of the virus have been reported this year, with one case being noted in ...
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Measles cases jump again, as vaccine take-up slows

ANOTHER 20 new cases of measles have been reported in the Swansea area since last Thursday — more cases than were seen in the whole of Wales in 2011. The rise brings the total number of reported cases to 1,094, with most seen in people aged ten to ...
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CDC issues interim recommendations for influenza vaccines

Influenza vaccines are still recommended for everyone who is aged at least 6 months, according to recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. ACIP also recommends that ...
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UNICEF announces dramatic milestone in newborn survival

Many of these women received their tetanus vaccine as part of an integrated campaign, originated by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, which included other life-saving interventions for children – such as immunization against measles, Vitamin A supplements, ...
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Vaccination, health checks recommended before swine shows

"Exhibitors are strongly encouraged to vaccinate their show pigs for erysipelas, a common and rapid spreading illness in pigs. They should consult with their veterinarian about specific vaccines, follow the label dosage, observe the required withdrawal ...
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Fox tests positive for rabies; two residents bitten

Officials with the Henderson County Sheriff's Animal Enforcement Division and the Department of Public Health are urging residents to ensure their pet's rabies vaccination is current and to contact a veterinarian immediately if their pet seems injured ...
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Local rabies epidemic draws DOH attention

In early February, to determine how much area residents know about rabies and vaccination practices, the department sent out the survey to 366 randomly selected households in Carlsbad and the southern outlying areas. Of the 366 households, 247, or 90 ...
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Minority parents more receptive to vaccinating their daughters against HPV ...

Vaccination for HPV has the potential to reduce health care disparities in cervical cancer rates if girls are vaccinated prior to sexual experimentation. Although providers felt that parents wanted to prevent cervical cancer in their daughters, some ...
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India-developed rotavirus vaccine shows strong efficacy against childhood ...

Data from the trial, presented at the International Symposium on Rotavirus Vaccines for India-The Evidence and the Promise, showed ROTAVAC to have an excellent safety and efficacy profile. The clinical study demonstrates for the first time that the ...
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Ticking a Lyme Disease Vaccine Off The List

Led by Nina Wressnigg, PhD, of Baxter BioScience, the healthcare company creating the vaccine, the researchers tested a vaccine aimed to be effective against all species of Borrelia, the type of bacteria that causes Lyme disease infections. The vaccine ...
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Rotarians in wine and cheese evening

The Rotary Club of Bretby held the event in St Modwens Church in aid of Rotary International's 'Polio Plus' Polio Eradication programme. A total of 51 Rotarians, wives, friends and members of the church met and enjoyed a spread of cheeses, wine and ...
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'Purple Pinkies' take aim at polio

Sassarini students Yamileth Oros, Gianna Rosseti and Angelica Ross take part in the Purple Pinkie Project, sponsored by Sonoma Valley Rotary, to raise funds for the eradication of polio. By Friday, all three Valley elementary schools will have ...
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