Yellow fever vaccination booster not needed
By WHO News
17 May 2013 — The yellow fever ‘booster’ vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to WHO.
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By WHO News
17 May 2013 — The yellow fever ‘booster’ vaccination given ten years after the initial vaccination is not necessary, according to WHO.
May 16, 2013 Phase III trials of the Rotavac Rotavirus Vaccine show that it has the potential to save thousands of lives, say scientists. From the BBC: Rotavirus causes dehydration and severe diarrhoea and spreads through contaminated hands and surfaces and is rampant in Asia and Africa. India says clinical trials show the new vaccine, Rotavac, can save the lives of thousands of children annually. An Indian manufacturer said the vaccine would cost 54 rupees ($1; £0.65). International pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Merck produce similar vaccines but each dose costs around 1,000 rupees. “This is an important scientific breakthrough against rotavirus infections, the most severe and lethal cause of childhood diarrhoea, responsible for approximately 100,000 deaths of small children in India each year,” India’s Department of Biotechnology official K Vijay Raghavan said
By GHHub
From Afghanistan to Somalia, the struggle to eradicate polio continues to lurch along in fits and starts. The past few days have brought a modicum of good news and some potentially quite bad news. via Why You Should Worry about a Case of Polio in Somalia: Scientific American.
By GHHub
Ugandan children are going unimmunized as the country grapples with persistent and widespread vaccine shortages, the result of insufficient funds and inefficient procurement and supply systems, officials say. via allAfrica.com: Uganda Grapples With Paediatric Vaccine Shortages (Page 1 of 2).
By GHHub
Some critics say that ending polio has become Bill Gates’ “white whale.” Why not just settle for the huge drop in polio cases that we’ve seen over the past decade and then spend money on other things that kill so many more kids, like diarrhea and malnutrition? “Polio is special,” Gates tells NPR’s Robert Siegel [...]
By GHHub
Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a disease that could have been prevented with a safe and effective vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. via Global Immunization: Despite Successes, Much More To Do.
By GHHub
The National Ministry of Health has announced it will carry out a massive meningitis vaccination campaign after an outbreak of meningitis in Upper Nile state capital Malakal claimed two lives and left dozens hospitalized. via allAfrica.com: South Sudan: Ministry of Health Plans Massive Meningitis Vaccination Campaign.
By GHHub
Scientific American‘s editorial board strongly believes that the US was wrong to mount a fake hepatitis B vaccination campaign in the effort to kill Osama bin Laden. Apart from moral issues, the blowback from the clandestine effort threatens the global campaign to eradicate polio from the face of the planet. via Polio Vaccinations Need A [...]
By GHHub
Global poliomyelitis eradication is almost within reach—this disease persists only in Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, which are countries with substantial Muslim populations.1 Today this ambitious goal is threatened, partly by misinformed and politicised religious views that not only seed suspicion about polio vaccination but recently led to murder of polio workers. In Pakistan, 16 workers [...]
By GHHub
Health officials say vaccination rates against measles are worryingly low among Somali children in the US and UK because some parents still believe the MMR jab is linked to autism. via BBC News – MMR jab: Somali migrants have lingering fears on autism.
By GHHub
Almost 43,000 at-risk children and teenagers are being targeted in an urgent vaccination effort in the face of a spreading measles epidemic. via MMR vaccination drive targets 43,000 children as measles epidemic spreads | Society | The Guardian.
By Sara Gorman
With the number of doses and cost of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines a barrier to global implementation, researchers have found that girls who received two doses of HPV vaccine had immune responses to HPV-16 and HPV-18 infection that were noninferior to the responses for young women who received three doses, according to a study in [...]
ANIRUDRA has spent 30 years trying not to make Nepal’s children cry – often failing. He has carried out vaccinations on the country’s ‘Babus’ and ‘Nanus’ around 240,000 times. He tries to soothe the children by distracting them with a clicking tongue and a few soothing words as the needle goes in. The 53-year-old has made [...]
By GHHub
The number of measles cases in a region battling an epidemic has passed 1,000 as major efforts continue to vaccinate the unprotected via Measles outbreak: number of cases passes 1,000 in Swansea area | Society | guardian.co.uk.
