Daily News 2013-06-30


Guns in parking lots among Tenn. new laws

Other measures taking effect include a law that allows school districts to let people with police training be armed in schools, and one that would require incoming students at public higher education institutions to show proof they've had meningitis shots.
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New Ind. laws on immunizing, records take effect

The new immunization law allows pharmacists to inoculate against pneumonia, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, HPV infections, and meningitis. It also lowers the age limit of those receiving vaccines from pharmacists to 11. Indiana State Department of ...
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Tenn. new laws taking effect on July 1

Allows people with handgun carry permits to store firearms in their vehicles no matter where they are parked. — SCHOOL SECURITY. Allows school districts to let people with police training to be armed in schools. — MENINGITIS/PROOF OF IMMUNIZATION.
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An interview with Tahir Khalil Sindhu

Mian Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a 26-member committee for measles control in Punjab, which is tasked with the responsibility of overseeing the measures being taken to control measles. A mass awareness campaign on anti-measles has also been ...
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Tenn. new laws taking effect on July 1

Allows people with handgun carry permits to store firearms in their vehicles no matter where they are parked. — SCHOOL SECURITY. Allows school districts to let people with police training to be armed in schools. — MENINGITIS/PROOF OF IMMUNIZATION.
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DTFZ meeting on UIP

District Task Force Zunheboto held a meeting on Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) on June 26 at the officer chamber of deputy commissioner Zunheboto. At the meeting, various important issues like implementation of immunization programme in the ...
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New Indiana laws allow pharmacists to offer more immunizations, expunge ...

INDIANAPOLIS — New Indiana laws taking effect Monday allow pharmacists to offer more immunizations and let people convicted of most felonies and misdemeanors to petition to have their record expunged if they haven't re-offended in several years.
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Guns in parking lots, school security measure, vaccination requirement among ...

The vaccination law is named after Middle Tennessee State University freshman Jacob Nunley, who died less than 24 hours after contracting meningococcal meningitis in 2012. The contagious disease is a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the ...
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Panel urges all baby boomers to screen for Hepatitis C

Go get screened for hepatitis C a doctor -- this is new many people do get. Vaccinated for different hepatitis strains yes but to be checked necessarily right now who. So we're talking about hepatitis C which is extremely deadly cause of the leading ...
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Some think religious vaccination exemption is too broad

"The evidence has clearly indicated there is no relation between immunizations and autism developing," she said. "That's what I tell them.

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Elgin mom advocates for parents to skip immunizations

"If you look around, you are going to find research papers, arguments that say this vaccine or that one can cause a problem," said Dr. Kenneth Soyemi, a pediatrician and senior medical adviser to the Illinois Department of Public Health. "But if you ...
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HPV shots supported for boys as well as girls

Just as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that girls be vaccinated against HPV to prevent cervical cancer, it more recently has come to similar conclusions for boys and young men. Gardasil was licensed to prevent genital ...
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Oral Polio Vaccine to Be Given In Southern Israel

The vaccine is administered in oral drops, not an injection form. They and an official from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control were in Israel to see what the Jewish State is doing to prevent the possible spread of poliomyelitis – a disease once ...
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Stomach flu vaccine seen as shot in the arm for cruises

Early human studies on a vaccine against norovirus, the top source of gastroenteritis in the United States, are set to finish this year. That would make work on the vaccine, developed by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., the furthest along of several ...
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Hundreds of people who consumed the product have sought out immune globulin or hepatitis A vaccine to prevent illness. The outbreak has sparked lawsuits on behalf of ill patients and a class action suit on behalf of those who sought preventive shots.
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Efforts on track to eradicate world of polio by 2018

We are on the verge of permanently ridding the world of polio, a disease synonymous with paralysis and death. Since the last U.S. outbreak of polio caused by indigenous transmission of polioviruses in 1979, efforts have shifted to wipe out the disease ...
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Back-to-School Immunization Clinic Set for August 6 - Frisco ISD

Back-to-School Immunization Clinic Set for August 6. Jun 24, 2013. Clinic Partners Frisco ISD will partner with Passport Health/North Texas Flu Shots to help ...
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18th Annual Immunization Day | Congressman Gene Green

Starting off the new school year, Congressman Green invites school-age children from the 29th District to his 18th Annual Immunization Day. Shots will be ...
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New Association Seeks To Support Immunization Managers to Achieve Vaccination Goals. Click here to view this press release in French. WASHINGTON ...
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"It means so much to my family to know people do still care."

Proceeds from the fun day, where photographs of Liam will be displayed along with awareness posters, will go to Meningitis UK. Claire said: "Liam would have loved the idea of a fun day in his honour. "He'd have loved having fun on the bouncy castle we ...
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As Doctors Leave Syria, Public Health Crisis Looms

For example, Coutts says, there were 7,000 cases of measles in northern Syria in the past few months after a vaccination program was disrupted by war, and the list is growing to include TB, leishmaniasis, typhoid and cholera, which will come up during ...
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Measles epidemic: 'The doctors were negligent'

Two more children died of measles in Faisalabad on Saturday, raising the death toll this year to 57. Six-month-old Danish, and Alisha, 6, died at the Allied Hospital. The attendants of the children protested against the administration. They said the ...
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When British Airways Hosted Polio Survivors

The less-privileged are often abandoned in the society. Theirs is the popular cliché On Your Own (OYO) for in most cases they are really on their own. But when public-spirited Nigerians or corporate organisations decide to come to their aid, such ...
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War on polio: 10200 teams to march against polio this July

With renewed vigour and determination, nearly 10,200 teams of polio vaccinators will resume their campaign against the crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease across the province on July 2 and July 3. Talking to The Express Tribune, public ...
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Rural Kentucky slow to embrace HPV vaccine

That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that boys and girls alike be vaccinated against HPV. Ideally, they should be vaccinated between the ages of 11 and 12. Vaccination can be initiated as early as age 9, and the U.S ...
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Motherlode: Study affirms HPV vaccine saves lives, so why resist?

"These are striking results," Thomas R. Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The New York Times. "They should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates. The bottom line is this: It is ...
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Dr. Frank Bures: 'Anti-cancer vaccine' working to save lives

A new study in the gold standard Journal of Infectious Diseases found a concretely significant drop in HPV in cervical swabs in the 14- to 19-year-old group of 4,000 patients. This was compared to pre-vaccine 2003 to 2006. The numbers did not change ...
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Influenza Vaccine Ordering for the 2013-2014 Season - LHDs

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Gardasil: Japanese Government Stops Supporting HPV Vaccine due to Parental ...

As Medscape reported, “The Japanese government withdrew its recommendation to use human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines in girls last week, citing concerns from the public about adverse effects.” (2). Mika Matsufuji is the head of a group of parents who ...
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Maher: Republicans hate 'sluts who put out' more than abortion

Similarly, conservatives hate the HPV vaccine because they believe that as soon as they get it, teen girls will run out and start having sex, much, said Maher, in the same way that he “couldn't wait to jab rusty nails into my feet” after he got his ...
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SPAS hosts free rabies vaccination clinic

"Rabies is still a public health risk nationwide and so, it's important that our animals stay vaccinated, to prevent our animals from bringing it from wildlife to the human population," said Dr. Alicia Hatch, a veterinarian at the Spay and Neuter ...
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GPs Order Additional MMR to Prevent Rise in Measles Cases

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Cross Border Shopper at Rick of Measles Exposure

A warning of measles exposure has been issued by the Whatcom County Health Department to the B. C. consumers who have travelled to south of the border last weekend to shop at Costco in Bellingham or at Bellis Fair. The department said that someone ...
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Nation fighting losing battle against measles

Nation fighting losing battle against measles. LAHORE In the intensive-care ward of Lahore's Mayo hospital, pale, spotty children cry in the intense heat of the summer -- victims of a devastating measles outbreak. Punjab has borne the brunt of the ...
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Vancouver Health Authority confirms several cases of measles in BC

Health officials in B.C. and Washington State are warning the public of several measles cases that have been reported on both sides of the border. File: Health Board nurse checks the measurement for a dose of measles vaccine at the Student Union ...
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State to close nearly half of health centers

When the H1N1 virus broke out into an epidemic here in 2009, nurse Joe Donahue participated in an immunization effort in rural state health centers that provided shots to 26,000 people in southwestern Pennsylvania. Maggie Beall Orosz, a school nurse in ...
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Prenatal Anti-D Screening May Avert Anemia

Three-fourths of RhD-immunized women developed anti-D antibodies during the second or third trimester, and another fifth developed antibodies at term or birth, said Eleonor Tiblad, MD, of Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, and colleagues.
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142 Cases of Pertussis Reported in Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service

The Health Department is urging the parents to immunize their kids at two, four, and six months, four years old and eleven years old against it. Adults also require vaccination. "The best protection against pertussis and influenza is vaccination ...
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HPV vaccine: 'Best defense is a good offense'

“Your best defense is a good offense — vaccination with the Gardasil vaccine prior to being sexually active,” said DeCesare, a doctor with Sacred Heart Women's Hospital. “Even if your partner wears protection, you could still be exposed to the virus.”.
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Younger Girls May Need Fewer Gardasil Shots Two doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil may be just as effective in younger girls ...
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Scientists close in on vaccine for stomach flu

Norovirus can be caught from an infected person, contaminated food or water, or by touching contaminated surfaces, according to the CDC. If approved, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.'s norovirus vaccine would be the first to protect people against the germ.
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CDC: Vaccination prevented millions of flu cases in US

ATLANTA, Ill. -- From 2005-11, flu shots prevented an estimated 13.6 million U.S. flu cases, 5.8 million doctor visits and 113,000 flu-related hospitalizations, researchers say. Researchers in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta ...
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Blood drive, fundraiser set as Peoria toddler battles bacterial meningitis

James Maughan had contracted bacterial meningitis — an illness caused by Neisseria meningitidis that attacks the blood and organs. The bacteria is spread through direct contact with an infected person's saliva or mucous, such as by being sneezed on ...
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Vancouver Health Authority confirms several cases of measles in BC

VANCOUVER -- Health officials in B.C. and Washington State are warning the public of several measles cases that have been reported on both sides of the border. Vancouver Coastal Health says there have been three cases of measles on Bowen Island and ...
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Two cases of measles confirmed on PEI, neither individual was vaccinated

CHARLOTTETOWN - Public health officials on Prince Edward Island have confirmed two cases of measles in the province. Officials from the Department of Health and Wellness say an adolescent youth has been diagnosed with the highly contagious, ...
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Shop at the Bellingham Costco? You may have been exposed to the measles

No details were provided about the contagious person, who was visiting Whatcom County, but Vancouver Coastal Health confirms it is following up on three cases of measles on Bowen Island and the North Shore, the first locally-acquired cases in three years.
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Tim Bolen Shoots Himself in the Foot From His Hip

So today he writes this piece that has no grounding in reality what so ever, on how "Autism Leadership," who is apparently us CP leadership, has done nothing on vaccines (my life's work BTW) and that in the MN hearings on expanding the vaccine schedule ...
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HPV: A Complicated Vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two vaccinations against human papillomavirus (HPV), but medical debate about the appropriate time of administration and the general population's growing fears regarding the vaccines' safety continue.
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Flu Scan for Jun 28, 2013

The risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) after flu vaccination was much lower than the risk of GBS after flu infection, according to a study today in Lancet Infectious Diseases. Canadian researchers used a self-controlled study design and data from ...
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HPV vaccine: 'Best defense is a good offense'

Should your child get the HPV vaccine?: Dr. Julie DeCesare, a gynecologist with Sacred Heart Women's Hospital, talks about the importance of getting vaccinated for HPV. Since the vaccine was made available in 2006, cases of HPV in teen girls have ...
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Vaccines Aimed At Young Could Break Transmission Cycle

CORVALLIS — The huge value of vaccinating more children and young adults for influenza is being seriously underestimated, experts say in a new report, while conventional wisdom and historic vaccine programs have concentrated on the elderly and those ...
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Are Oregon children subjected to 71 immunization shots, each?

The child would need four doses for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis; three doses for polio; one for chickenpox; one for measles, mumps, rubella; three doses for Hepatitis B; two doses for Hepatitis A; and three or four doses against Hib disease. We ...
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We're Still Fighting Bad Science: Andrew Wakefield and the Vaccine ...

In 2010, The Lancet finally withdrew Andrew Wakefield's infamous 1998 paper claiming that there was a link between vaccines and autism, but the damage had ...
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Zero-tolerance to negligence

Experience in oversight, monitoring and accountability for polio eradication will be replicated to strengthen routine immunisation for children in Pakistan, Minister of State for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar said this while addressing a ...
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Peshawar police to tighten security for anti-polio campaign

PESHAWAR – A three-day anti-polio campaign in Peshawar and several other Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) districts will begin July 1 with police security, UNICEF spokesman Shadab Younus told Central Asia Online June 28. Terrorists have previously attacked ...
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Two cases of measles found in PEI

To prevent future spread, the Chief Public Health Office along with Public Health Nursing are reviewing the vaccination records of students at two Island schools, East Wiltshire Junior High School and Bluefield Senior High School, which were attended ...
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Rep. Jason Conger said that the mandate in Oregon is 71 vaccination shots for each child. That's three score and 11 skin-pricking shots!
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Russia facing seasonal outbreak of meningitis serosa

The outbreak of meningitis in Russia, which occurred nearly a month ago, has failed to subside yet, contrary to doctors' forecast. The first cases of the disease were registered in Rostov-on-Don. Pretty soon it spread to other cities - Astrakhan ...
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2 measles cases confirmed in central PEI

Two cases of measles have been confirmed in central P.E.I.. The Department of Health says two school-aged siblings have been diagnosed with the disease. One of the siblings showed symptoms of measles earlier this month after returning from Europe, ...
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City of Lubbock Health Department to Hold Immunization Clinics Week of July 4th

The clinic on Monday, July 1st will be held at the Mahon Library at 1306 9th Street from 10 a.m. until Noon. Tuesday's clinic will be at the Health Department at 806 18th Street from 8:30 a.m. until Noon. Wednesday's clinic will be held at the Maggie ...
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Kenya targets 4.3 million children in polio vaccination campaign

Kenya will launch a one-week vaccination campaign in 22 counties next week to prevent the spread of polio after an outbreak left six people paralysed in Garissa, Kenya's Daily Nation reported Thursday (June 27th).
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Ulema committee members to visit Pak to dispel myths about polio vaccine

With World Health Organisation (WHO) suspending the special outreach programme against polio in Peshawar due to the attack on female community workers, members of Rotary Muslim Ulema committee have now offered to visit Pakistan and help dispel ...
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Polio Outbreak In Somalia Jeopardizes Global Eradication

Local health officials in Somalia have launched three massive vaccination drives, Bari says, and Kenya has already carried out two special immunization campaigns in the refugee camp. When outbreaks like these occur, she says, the goal is to break the ...
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