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Quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: a review of safety, efficacy, and pharmacoeconomics

Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

What is known and background: The introduction of vaccines has lead to a significant reduction in morbidity and mortality from diseases such as measles, rubella and poliomyelitis, as well as the eradication of smallpox (Ertl HC, Xiang Z (1996) The Journal of Immunology, 156, 3579[ndash]3582). A recent vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the recombinant quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Merck, Gardasil®). Concerns raised with this preventive measure include safety and efficacy issues as well as the financial implications. Furthermore, the use of the vaccine in women outside the currently approved age ranges and in adolescent boys and men has also been a source of debate.Objective: A review of two licensed HPV vaccines (Gardasil, Merck and Cervarix, ...

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Nearly 8 million Afghan children to benefit in latest UN polio vaccination drive

UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

United Nations agencies and the Afghan health ministry are conducting a three-day campaign aimed at vaccinating an estimated 7.7 million children under the age of five against polio. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)

Live polio vaccine exposure while receiving anti-TNF therapy for reactive arthritis

APLAR Journal of Rheumatology — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

International guidelines state that live vaccines are contraindicated in patients on anti-TNF therapy. However, we report the experience of a patient who inadvertently received live polio vaccine whilst receiving anti-TNF therapy. Patient did not suffer from any infectious sequel as a result. No clear guidelines are available for all vaccines in patients with specific rheumatic diseases. However, if we consider adult patients with rheumatic diseases to have altered immunocompetence, it is recommended that they receive the usual inactivated vaccines according to standard schedules, and live vaccines should be avoided in those who are treated with more potent forms of immune suppression. Patients should be counseled regarding the risks of live vaccines prior to treatment with anti-TNF therap...

Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication --- afghanistan and pakistan, 2009.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

This report updates previous reports and describes polio eradication activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan during January--December 2009 and proposed activities in 2010 to address challenges. During 2009, both countries continued to conduct coordinated supplemental immunization activities (SIAs) and used multiple strategies to reach previously unreached children. These strategies included 1) use of short interval additional dose (SIAD) SIAs to administer a dose of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) within 1--2 weeks after a prior dose during negotiated periods of security; 2) systematic engagement of local leaders; 3) negotiations with conflict parties; and 4) increased engagement of nongovernmental organizations delivering basic health services. However, security problems continued to limit a...

Also In Global Health News: WFP In Somalia; Ugandans Displaced By Landslides; Polio Vaccination Campaign In Nigeria; Famine In Chad

Aid / Disasters News From Medical News Today — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Nearly 50% Of Food Aid Sent To Somalia Never Makes It To People In Need "As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report," the New York Times reports. "The report, which has not yet been made public ... (Source: Aid / Disasters News From Medical News Today)

Also In Global Health News: WFP In Somalia; Ugandans Displaced By Landslides; Polio Vaccination Campaign In Nigeria; Famine In Chad

Health News from Medical News Today — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100

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Nigeria: Violence Delays Polio Vaccinations

AllAfrica News: Polio — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:08:22 +0100

A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and an on-going health worker strike, aid workers said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Nigeria: Violence Delays Polio Vaccinations

AllAfrica News: Polio — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:37:47 +0100

West Africa: Polio Vaccination Targets 85 Million in West Africa

AllAfrica News: Polio — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:50:46 +0100

A massive polio vaccination campaign targeting about 85 million children is underway in West and Central Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Nigeria, Key to Wiping out Polio in Africa, Makes Gains

Medscape Medical News Headlines — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:04:16 +0100

Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)

Polio Vaccination Campaign To Target 85M Children In 19 West, Central African Countries

Health News from Medical News Today — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Global health organizations will launch a $30 million polio vaccination campaign on Saturday in West and Central Africa aimed at immunizing 85 million children under age 5, the Joint Global Polio Eradication Initiative and the International Federation of the Red Cross said on Thursday, Agence France-Presse reports (3/4). The campaign, which targets 19 countries, will be carried out by more than 400,000 volunteers and health workers, the Associated Press writes. The campaign "is largely funded by Rotary International," according to the news service (3/5)... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Polio Vaccination Campaign To Target 85M Children In 19 West, Central African Countries

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Nigeria winning battle to beat polio

Scotsman.com News - Health — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

NIGERIA has made impressive advances in wiping out polio since religious leaders backed vaccination, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)

85m African children to get polio vaccine

Scotsman.com News - Health — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

THE World Health Organisation has said more than 85 million children under five in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)

Polio vaccine drive starts in Africa

CBC | Health — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:54:03 +0100

More than 85 million children under the age of five in 19 African countries will be vaccinated against polio, the World Health Organization says. (Source: CBC | Health)

Africa United In Fight Against Polio Outbreak

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0100

More than 85 million children under five years old will be immunized against polio in 19 countries across West and Central Africa in a massive example of cross-border cooperation aimed at stopping a year-long polio epidemic... (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)

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Nigeria, key to wiping out polio in Africa, makes gains

Reuters: Health — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:34:32 +0100

GENEVA (Reuters) - Nigeria, seen as the key to wiping out polio in Africa, has made impressive gains against the disease in the year since religious leaders backed vaccination, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. (Source: Reuters: Health)

WHO: 85 million African children to get polio shot

CTV Health — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:08:01 +0100

The World Health Organization says more than 85 million children under 5 in west and central Africa will be vaccinated against polio. (Source: CTV Health)

Nigeria: Trading Mosquito Nets For Polio Vaccine in Niger

AllAfrica News: Polio — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:55:02 +0100

Despite concerted efforts made by officials of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) to educate people on the importance of vaccinating their wards through immunization, some still believe they are doing health officials a favour and not looking at the adverse health implication on their children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Association Between Child Immunization and Availability of Health Infrastructure in Slums in India [Article]

Archives of Pediatrics — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:50:48 +0100

Conclusions We found that presence of a UHC was positively associated with immunization status of children in slums. These results suggest a need for greater public attention to expand coverage of slums through UHCs. (Source: Archives of Pediatrics)

Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow To Travel To Chad To Highlight Polio

Health News from Medical News Today — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Internationally acclaimed actress, humanitarian and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow is travelling to Chad this weekend to raise awareness of the importance of vaccinating children against polio. The visit is timed to coincide with the country's upcoming national polio immunization campaign. During her week-long visit, Ms. Farrow will meet with local officials and travel with polio teams to witness vaccination campaigns first-hand. Chad's national campaign is part of a synchronized polio immunization campaign to be conducted across west and central Africa on 6 March... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow To Travel To Chad To Highlight Polio

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Using oral polio vaccine beyond the cold chain: A feasibility study conducted during the national immunization campaign in Mali.

Vaccine — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Authors: Halm A, Yalcouyé I, Kamissoko M, Keïta T, Modjirom N, Zipursky S, Kartoglu U, Ronveaux O We conducted the first systematic documentation of using oral polio vaccine (OPV) out of the cold chain during national immunization day (NID) campaigns in Mali. Using a crossover intervention design, vaccinators compared the transport of OPV in vaccine carriers with or without ice packs. Vaccine integrity was assured through monitoring vaccine vial monitor (VVM) status. Despite ambient temperatures up to 40 degrees C, none of the VVMs on any of the vials used (n=956) reached their discard point. Over 90% of vaccinators and supervisors preferred conducting NIDs without ice packs. In addition, using OPV out of the cold chain reduced vaccine wastage resulting from melting ice packs...

Also In Global Health News: Global Fund; MDGs, Women; Polio Eradication

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Radio Australia Interviews Global Fund Executive Director Radio Australia examines the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's push for more funding from Australia and China... (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)

Sudan: Bid to Wipe Out Polio Virus

AllAfrica News: Polio — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:24:36 +0100

After the polio virus re-emerged in Sudan two years ago, nine million children are being vaccinated in a project run by the Ministry of Health, with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO). (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Nigeria: Polio - 1 Million Children Immunized in Anambra

AllAfrica News: Polio — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:22:28 +0100

Addressing newsmen in his office, Prof Ilika said the essence of the IPD is to ensure that polio virus is eradicated totally in Nigeria. He said that the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) was administered to over 1 million children during the January - February mop -up exercise. He said the just concluded IPDs recorded a tremendous success as out of the target children population of 93,492, over 1, 118, 866 children under six years were got and immunized in the field. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

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The cross-reactivity of the enterovirus 71 to human brain tissue and identification of the cross-reactivity related fragments

Virology Journal — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Conclusion: EV71 induced IgG could enter BBB and cross-reacted with brain tissue in EV71 infected neonatal mice, and then the peptides of EV71 that could induce cross-reactivity with brain tissue were identified, which should be avoided in future vaccine designing. (Source: Virology Journal)

[Newsdesk] Polio eradication within 5 years now a real possibility

The Lancet Infectious Diseases — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Last year was a significant one for polio eradication. Real progress was made simultaneously in northern Nigeria, on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, and in the remaining pockets in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India, cutting the number of cases worldwide to 1597 (correct as of Feb 2, 2010). The new bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV), which targets type 1 and type 3 polioviruses, was licensed in late 2009 and has been in use since December. Starting in February, March, and April, 2010, multiple mass immunisations are planned in all four remaining countries where polio is endemic, at the start of a 3-year intensive effort to finally halt polio transmission worldwide. (Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases)

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Tropical Diseases News From Medical News Today — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0100

Discovery Of Chemical Reaction Process Could Lead To New Malaria, TB Treatments Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say that a recent finding could help develop new treatments to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, KWMU reports (LaCapra, 2/15)... (Source: Tropical Diseases News From Medical News Today)

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Health News from Medical News Today — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:00:00 +0100

Discovery Of Chemical Reaction Process Could Lead To New Malaria, TB Treatments Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say that a recent finding could help develop new treatments to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, KWMU reports (LaCapra, 2/15). The researchers "say they've discovered an unusual chemical reaction that allows malaria parasites and many bacteria to survive. ... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Bangladesh To Vaccinate 20 Million Children Against Measles

Pediatrics News From Medical News Today — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100

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Bangladesh To Vaccinate 20 Million Children Against Measles

Health News from Medical News Today — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Bangladesh will vaccinate more than 20 million children against measles during a two-week measles campaign starting tomorrow and ending on February 28, 2010. All children aged 9 months to less than 5 years will be given measles vaccine, while all children aged 0 to 5 years will be given two drops of polio vaccine. More than 50,000 health staff, 600,000 volunteers and NGO workers have been mobilized in order to carry out the campaign. They will work in 120,000 vaccinations sites spread across the country... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Paralytic Syndromes in Children: Epidemiology and Relationship to Vaccination

Pediatric Neurology — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:46:59 +0100

Acute flaccid paralysis is a standard outcome for detection of poliomyelitis globally and an ongoing potential vaccine-associated adverse event concern for polio, influenza, and meningococcal vaccines. No systematic population-based data on the epidemiologic and clinical features of this condition, or its potential association with immunization, have been reported from the United States. The present retrospective cohort study of acute flaccid paralysis in the Southern and Northern California Kaiser Permanente Health Care Plans was conducted using computerized diagnosis data and medical record review of potential cases among children aged 1 month to (Source: Pediatric Neurology)

Polio the target of UN-backed vaccination scheme in Afghanistan and Pakistan

UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Millions of Afghan and Pakistani children will receive polio vaccinations this week as part of a coordinated effort by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN political mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) to tackle the spread of the deadly disease. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)

Are we doing enough? Evaluation of the Polio Eradication Initiative in a district of Pakistan's Punjab province: a LQAS study

BMC Public Health - Latest articles — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Conclusion: Low coverage, both routine and during NIDs, and poor quality of logistics management, monitoring systems and NIDs service delivery were highlighted as major constraints in polio eradication and these should be considered in prioritizing future strategies. (Source: BMC Public Health - Latest articles)

Statement By UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman Applauding Gates Foundation $10 Billion Pledge For Vaccines

Health News from Medical News Today — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0100

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's unprecedented commitment of $10 billion towards the research, development and delivery of vaccines over the next 10 years emphasizes the essential role immunizations play in reducing maternal and child mortality. Worldwide, polio cases have been reduced by over 99 per cent since 1988 and measles deaths fell by 78 per cent between 2000 and 2008. In 2008, according to experts' estimates, a record 106 million children or infants were immunized, more than ever before... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Statement By UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman Applauding Gates Foundation $10 Billion Pledge For Vaccines

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:00:00 +0100

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's unprecedented commitment of $10 billion towards the research, development and delivery of vaccines over the next 10 years emphasizes the essential role immunizations play in reducing maternal and child mortality. Worldwide, polio cases have been reduced by over 99 per cent since 1988 and measles deaths fell by 78 per cent between 2000 and 2008... (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)

Nigeria: Enugu Lauds FG On New Polio Vaccine

AllAfrica News: Polio — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:23:19 +0100

Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Dr Uche Uzochukwu has applauded the introduction of the new bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine, OPV, in the ongoing first round National Immunization Plus Days, NIPDS, in the state, noting that it was the only way of ensuring that children below five years of age are properly immunized against the deadly type 1 and type 2 wild poliovirus cases recently discovered in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Blair, Wakefield, climate change – beware of scapegoats | Michael White

Guardian Unlimited Science — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:10:52 +0100

I don't like witch-hunts even of people I mistrust, because minds are best kept open against the pressures of conformityThere seems to be a lot of zeal in the atmosphere this week. Not just over Tony Blair's appearance before the Chilcot inquiry today, but Scott Roeder, that righteous born-again Christian doctor-killer in Kansas and, of course, the case of Dr Andrew Wakefield, the MMR researcher.As overnight media has been reporting, Wakefield and two colleagues were condemned by the General Medical Council's disciplinary panel in ferocious terms yesterday. Wakefield was accused of "dishonesty and irresponsibility" as well as a "callous disregard" for the suffering of children whom he tested without appropriate consents or safeguards.Yet when the verdict was announced there were cries of "...

Nigeria: New Polio Vaccine Debuts

AllAfrica News: Polio — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:42:38 +0100

The Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) is to commence immunisation exercise with the new vaccine "bivalent" to reduce the incidence of wild polio in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Nigeria: NMA Seeks Restriction of Overseas Treatment for Public Officers

AllAfrica News: Polio — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:26:55 +0100

EVEN as Nigeria gradually inches towards eradication of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs) particularly polio, concerns about the overall state of immunisation coverage in the country and the general state of public health institutions continue to make the rounds. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

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Evaluation of poliovirus antibody titers in orally vaccinated semi-captive chimpanzees in Uganda

Journal of Medical Primatology — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Conclusions This study reveals persistence of neutralizing antibodies in chimpanzees for at least 9 years after vaccination with OPV. This first study in chimpanzees provides useful information for the evaluation of the success of vaccination with OPV in other captive apes. (Source: Journal of Medical Primatology)

WHO issues health priorities for Haiti

OnMedica Latest News — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Experts call for mass vaccination for measles, rubella and tetanusRelated items from OnMedicaG8 must tackle health inequality, says Bill Gates and WHOPalestinians face health crisisFire is major killer of young women in IndiaFinancial pledge to eradicate polio Mass vaccination only way to beat measles in Africa (Source: OnMedica Latest News)

[Health checkups for children of 3-4 years of age in the Hauts-de-Seine department (France): Results and prospects.]

Archives de Pediatrie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

CONCLUSION: The complete and systematic medical exam for children in nursery school at the age of 3-4 years old, the key age for screening, give occasion to appreciate global children's health. There should be thinking on the national level about how to group the results of the departments. PMID: 20097551 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives de Pediatrie)

Growth kinetic analysis of bi-recombinant poliovirus vaccine strains

Virus Genes — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:51:27 +0100

In this study, we determined the phenotypic traits such as temperature sensitivity and growth kinetics of eight OPV isolates (six bi-recombinant and two non-recombinant). The growth phenotype of each isolate as well as of Sabin vaccine strains in Hep2 cell line at two different temperatures (37 and 40°C) was evaluated using two different assays, RCT test (Reproductive Capacity at different Temperatures) and one-step growth curve analysis. Moreover, the nucleotide and amino acid positions in the genomes of the isolates that have been identified as being involved in the attenuated and thermo sensitive phenotype of Sabin vaccine strains were investigated. Mutations that result in loss of the attenuated and thermo sensitive phenotype of Sabin vaccine strains were identified in the genom...

Nurse Irene Shea studies the "Kenny method" of treatment of infantile paralysis, 1942-1943.

Nursing History Review — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:52:26 +0100

Authors: Golden J, Rogers N In the 1940s nurses in the United States set out to learn the Kenny method of treating polio patients, which relied on hot packs and muscle strengthening exercises instead of the standard system of prolonged immobilization. Named for Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse who based herself in Minnesota during the 1940s and early 1950s, and viewed with suspicion by many physicians, nurses, and physical therapists, the treatment nonetheless proved effective. It changed the practice of polio nursing and the experiences of patients in the years before vaccine prevention largely eliminated paralytic polio. PMID: 20067099 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing History Review)

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Establishment of population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in Bangalore, India

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:37:06 +0100

Conclusion</b> : Our analysis suggests that the PD-associated disease burden in Bangalore is high and local institutions have capacity for population-based surveillance. In a prospective study, systematic attention to potential barriers in identifying children with pneumococcal infections will improve estimation of IPD incidence in India. (Source: Indian Journal of Medical Sciences)

Wall Street Journal Examines Polio Vaccinations In Afghanistan

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News From Medical News Today — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0100

In a story about polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal examines how the Taliban and international health agencies are working together to promote oral vaccination campaigns across the country. Vaccination campaign volunteers usually bring a "single-page letter requesting people to cooperate, 'for the benefit of our next generations... (Source: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News From Medical News Today)

Wall Street Journal Examines Polio Vaccinations In Afghanistan

Health News from Medical News Today — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0100

In a story about polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal examines how the Taliban and international health agencies are working together to promote oral vaccination campaigns across the country. Vaccination campaign volunteers usually bring a "single-page letter requesting people to cooperate, 'for the benefit of our next generations.' The letter's signatory: Mullah Mohammad Omar, the one-eyed supreme leader of the Taliban," according to the Wall Street Journal... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

No kid in Bangladesh should go without polio vaccine: PM

Xinhuanet Chinaview Health — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:32:02 +0100

DHAKA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh ... (Source: Xinhuanet Chinaview Health)

Nigeria: Scarcity of Polio Vaccines Hits Janga/Gashaka - District Head Calls for Assistance

AllAfrica News: Polio — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:27:18 +0100

District Head of Janga/Gashaka community in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe State, Alhaji Hassan Adamu, has called on the state government to provide the community with enough polio vaccines to immunise their children against the dreaded poliomyelitis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

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Health headlines: Playground injuries, a new polio vaccine and the latest anti-soda ad

Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:00:24 +0100

Other stories we’ve been reading: Uganda outlaws female circumcision. A new polio vaccine is going to be used in Afghanistan. Researchers have developed an artificial clotting agent to help stop massive bleeding. Playground injuries aren’t about fall – it’s the landing. Fifty million shades have been recalled for strangulation risk. Pregnancy spacing matters in babies’ health and STDs are common among sexually active teen girls in cities. The CDC has a healthy version of the song The 12 Days of Christmas. Watch NYC’s latest anti-soda ad. Related posts:Health headlines: Premature babies, burn injuries and cherry flavored TamifluHealth headlines: Fearless toddlers, Viagra for kids and Santa wants his vaccineHealth headlines: Mozart helps preemies, children’s allergies and te...

Afghanistan First In World To Use New Vaccine Against Polio

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0100

A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time today in polio immunization campaigns in Afghanistan... (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)

WHO Using New Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine In Afghanistan

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0100

The WHO on Tuesday launched a vaccination campaign in Afghanistan that will use "a new and more effective polio vaccine" for the first time, Reuters reports (Nebehay, 12/15). "This is a major new tool in efforts to eradicate Types 1 and 3 polio," the WHO's Rod Curtis said, VOA News reports... (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)

Afghanistan First In World To Use New Vaccine Against Polio

Health News from Medical News Today — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0100

A new vaccine against polio will be used for the first time today in polio immunization campaigns in Afghanistan. The bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV), recommended by the Advisory Committee on Poliomyelitis Eradication, the global technical advisory body of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as a critical tool to eradicate polio, can provide the optimal concurrent protection needed by young children against both surviving serotypes (types 1 and 3) of the paralysing virus. This will vastly simplify the logistics of vaccination in the conflict-affected parts of this country... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

WHO Using New Bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine In Afghanistan

Health News from Medical News Today — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0100

The WHO on Tuesday launched a vaccination campaign in Afghanistan that will use "a new and more effective polio vaccine" for the first time, Reuters reports (Nebehay, 12/15). "This is a major new tool in efforts to eradicate Types 1 and 3 polio," the WHO's Rod Curtis said, VOA News reports. "No new cases of Type 2 poliomyelitis have been reported anywhere in the world since 1999," writes the news service (Westpheling, 12/15)... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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WHO criteria for measles elimination: a critique with reference to criteria for polio elimination

Eurosurveillance latest news — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Smallpox was formally declared as eradicated in 1979. Smallpox is the only infectious disease of humans that has ever been eradicated. Poliomyelitis has been eliminated from three of the six World Health Organization (WHO) regions although not all countries within those regions always meet the elimination criteria. Elimination criteria for measles are being discussed. We use poliomyelitis and measles as examples to illustrate our assertion that the current approach to documenting measles elimination relies too heavily on criteria for surveillance quality, disadvantaging countries with long established and relatively inflexible surveillance systems. We propose an alternative approach to documenting measles elimination, with the two key criteria being molecular evidence to confirm the lack o...

Nigeria: New Vaccine to Be Critical in Wiping Out Polio - WHO

AllAfrica News: Polio — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:54:30 +0100

A new vaccine against polio, being used for the first time on children in Afghanistan this week will be critical in the drive to eradicate the crippling virus, the World Health Organization said yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

CORRECTED: New vaccine to be critical in wiping out polio: WHO

Reuters: Health — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:47:34 +0100

(Removes reference to polio being present in four African countries) (Source: Reuters: Health)

Afghanistan first to use new polio vaccine

Xinhuanet Chinaview Health — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:12:33 +0100

GENEVA, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A new polio vaccine was used ... (Source: Xinhuanet Chinaview Health)

New vaccine to be critical in wiping out polio: WHO

Reuters: Health — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:18:36 +0100

GENEVA (Reuters) - A new vaccine against polio, being used for the first time on children in Afghanistan this week, will be critical in the drive to eradicate the crippling virus, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)

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Afghanistan first in world to use new vaccine against polio

WHO news — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:01:00 +0100

15 December -- Using a new vaccine for the first time, a sub-national polio immunization campaign will take place from 15-17 December in Afghanistan. About 2.8 million children under five in the Southern, South-Eastern and Eastern Regions of Afghanistan will receive the vaccine. (Source: WHO news)

Uganda: Gulu District Runs Out of Polio Vaccines

AllAfrica News: Polio — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:46:23 +0100

GULU district has run out of polio and DPP vaccines. The stock-out, according to the district health visitor, Sister Grace Anena, started on Monday due to a delay by the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI) to deliver the vaccines and gas. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Disease eradication: Yesterday's ambition

Guardian Unlimited Science — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:06:18 +0100

If ever there was a single moment of lost innocence in global medicine, it came with the triumph of disease over the best efforts of rich nations to transfer their knowledge and expertise to the rest of the world. Yet – as veterans of the campaign to eradicate smallpox will remember at commemorative events next spring – 30 years ago they believed that soon other major infectious diseases would be similarly defeated. Instead they persist to devastating effect, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria remains the biggest killer of children under five and where polio, although much reduced, is back on the march even in countries like southern Sudan where it once was under control, while TB kills more than HIV/Aids. And the bigger the challenge, the hotter the politics.What is oft...

Guinea: Vaccination Push as Polio Re-Emerges

AllAfrica News: Polio — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:26 +0100

Health officials and aid agencies in Guinea will mount the fifth polio vaccination drive this year from 12 to 16 December. The once polio-free country has recorded 37 cases since April. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Côte d'Ivoire: UN Pitches in on Nationwide Polio Immunization Campaign

AllAfrica News: Polio — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:38:24 +0100

United Nations peacekeepers airlifted doctors and vaccines to remote and inaccessible regions of Côte d'Ivoire today as the Government opened its latest campaign to immunize over 6 million children against polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

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Côte d'Ivoire: UN pitches in on nationwide polio immunization campaign

UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100

[Global polio eradication program: fundamental lessons for the control of infectious diseases]

Uirusu. Journal of Virology — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Authors: Miyamura T Because of its unapparent infection and viral diversity, poliomyelitis is difficult infectious diseases to control globally. Nevertheless, effective vaccinations, global surveillance network, development of accurate viral diagnosis prompted the historical challenge, global polio eradication initiative (GPEI). Wild polio viruses are now confined in four countries, Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, at the very end stage of this program, it has been stagnated because of various reasons. From this, we can learn good lessons to control other infectious diseases including measles, influenza and etc. To share the passion to eradicate miserable infectious disease, poliomyelitis is the key. PMID: 20218336 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Uirusu. Journal of...

Enteroviruses

Medicine — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:03:41 +0100

Abstract: The human enteroviruses are ubiquitous small non-enveloped RNA viruses that are important causes of aseptic meningitis, myocarditis, hand, foot and mouth disease, acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis, herpangina, and Bornholm disease (pleurodynia), as well as non-specific febrile and respiratory illnesses, and rash. They include the coxsackieviruses, echoviruses and polioviruses. The polioviruses cause paralytic poliomyelitis, which has almost been eliminated through the use of live and inactivated poliovirus vaccine. Neonatal enterovirus infection can be particularly severe. Laboratory diagnosis of enterovirus infections has been greatly improved in recent years by replacing viral culture and serology with enterovirus-specific polymerase chain reaction; this is now part of routine ...

Booster Vaccinations: Can Immunologic Memory Outpace Disease Pathogenesis?

PEDIATRICS — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:01:59 +0100

Almost all current vaccines work by the induction of antibodies in serum or on the mucosa to block adherence of pathogens to epithelial cells or interfere with microbial invasion of the bloodstream. However, antibody levels usually decline after vaccination to undetectable amounts if further vaccination does not occur. Persistence of vaccine-induced antibodies usually goes well beyond the time when they should have decayed to undetectable levels because of ongoing "natural" boosting or other immunologic mechanisms. The production of memory B and T cells is of clear importance, but the likelihood that a memory response will be fast enough in the absence of a protective circulating antibody level likely depends on the pace of pathogenesis of a specific organism. This concept is discussed wit...

Parents' views about pre-school immunization: an interview study in southern England

Child: Care, Health and Development — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Conclusions Parents reported uncertainties, anxieties and time constraints, all of which may contribute to poor attendance for pre-school immunization. These findings have important implications for providing parents with timely information about boosters and the two-dose MMR programme. They indicate the potential value of playgroup or pre-school involvement and the need for improved communication with children about immunization. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)

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Swine flu vaccine is vital | Robert Read

Guardian Unlimited Science — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0100

The anti-immunisation movement has been peddling fear since the 1800s, but we must ignore its misinformation on H1N1Many people are facing the question of whether to vaccinate themselves and their children against pandemic influenza H1N1 (so-called swine flu) – a vaccine that will provide safe and effective protection against a debilitating and potentially fatal illness. But the question comes at a time when some experts are concerned that a vociferous anti-vaccine lobby will undermine the mass vaccination campaigns being rolled out across Europe, putting the public and individuals' health at risk.Vaccination – priming the body's immune system to resist attack – is the best defence an individual can have against infectious diseases. It can provide effective protection from infection,...

A Sabin 2-related poliovirus recombinant contains a homologous sequence of human enterovirus species C in the viral polymerase coding region

Archives of Virology — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:03:50 +0100

Abstract A type 2 vaccine-related poliovirus (strain CHN3024), differing from the Sabin 2 strain by 0.44% in the VP1 coding region was isolated from a patient with vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis. Sequences downstream of nucleotide position 6735 (3D pol coding region) were derived from an unidentified sequence; no close match for a potential parent was found, but it could be classified into a non-polio human enteroviruses species C (HEV-C) phylogeny. The virus differed antigenically from the parental Sabin strain, having an amino acid substitution in the neutralizing antigenic site 1. The similarity between CHN3024 and Sabin 2 sequences suggests that the recombination was recent; this is supported by the estimation that the initiating OPV dose was given only ...

Eradicating polio in India

Guardian Unlimited Science — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:34:53 +0100

Workers in Lucknow spearhead a vaccination drive in an attempt to eradicate polio in India (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)

India's final push to wipe out polio

Guardian Unlimited Science — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:05:33 +0100

Polio has almost been wiped out, but a few stubborn areas of resistance remain and India is on the frontline against the crippling diseaseIn a school courtyard in Lucknow on a dusty Sunday afternoon, the final push in a heroic campaign to drive a crippling disease from the planet is under way. Among scores of wide-eyed children, four-year-old Mohamed Yusuf is brought to the big wooden table under the yellow banners by his mother Afsar Jahan. Uncomprehending but compliant, he tilts his head back and opens his mouth to receive two drops of polio vaccine. His less fortunate sister Saba Banu, 12, comes across the open space to join them, strikingly beautiful in her bright blue sari, swinging her deformed limb this way and that on her crutches. Saba's right leg is stunted from polio, which she ...

Process of neonatal tetanus elimination in Nepal

Journal of Public Health — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:43:01 +0100

Conclusions NT elimination was achieved in 2005 in Nepal, but activities must continue and be strengthened to ensure that NT incidence will not increase in the future. The introduction and further expansion of school-based immunization will, in combination with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine given in infancy, reduce the need for future cohorts of childbearing age women to be immunized at every pregnancy. However, booster doses will still need to be given in early adulthood to ensure ongoing protection. (Source: Journal of Public Health)

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Poliovirus vaccine live oral: Poliomyelitis following vaccination of a household member: case report

Reactions — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:04:51 +0100

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Also In Global Health News: Sleeping Sickness; Aid For Philippines; U.S., China In Africa; Polio Eradication In Afghanistan; Ethiopia Famine

Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100

Lancet Infectious Diseases Examines Hold-Ups In Implementation Of Sleeping Sickness Therapy (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)

[Newsdesk] Childhood vaccination and progress towards MDG4

The Lancet Infectious Diseases — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Agencies and individuals worldwide are continuing their efforts to vaccinate the world's children and their achievements are highlighted by State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization, a major report published recently by WHO, UNICEF, and The World Bank. “We have good news…”, announced Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director General of Family and Community Health at WHO (Geneva, Switzerland). “The number of children being vaccinated is now at an all time high—and we have the numbers to prove this.” In 2008, 106 million children received routine vaccinations for childhood killer infectious diseases including measles, whooping cough, tetanus, and polio, more children than have ever been vaccinated in a single year. (Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases)

New oral vaccine to be introduced to check spread of polio in India

Monsters and Critics Health News — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:18:02 +0100

New Delhi - The Indian government will soon introduce a bivalent oral polio vaccine to check the persistent spread (Source: Monsters and Critics Health News)

Exploded: myth of miracle bomb detector

Guardian Unlimited Science — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:05:05 +0100

It's always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – north London's Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high. Like the polio vaccine scare in Nigeria. Or Aids denial in South Africa. Or, in this particular case, detecting bombs in Iraq, where the New York Times and the magician James Randi have uncovered a nonsense of truly epic proportions.A British company called ATSC is selling a device which can detect guns, ammunition, bombs, drugs, contraband ivory – and truffles. The ADE651 uses "electrostatic magnetic ion attraction" and can detect these things from a kilometre away, through walls, under the ground, under water or even from an aeroplane three miles overhead.ATSC's device is handheld. You simply take a piece of plastic-coa...

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Also In Global Health News: Childhood Vaccines; USAID Administrator; Pakistan Polio Fight; UNICEF Fundraising; Measles In India

Pediatrics News From Medical News Today — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0100

The International Examines Contributing Factors To Uneven Distribution Of Childhood Vaccines As a follow-up to the release of the State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization by the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank last month, (Source: Pediatrics News From Medical News Today)

Also In Global Health News: Childhood Vaccines; USAID Administrator; Pakistan Polio Fight; UNICEF Fundraising; Measles In India

Health News from Medical News Today — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0100

PAKISTAN: Polio Vaccination: One Hurdle Down, One More to Go

IPS Inter Press Service - Health — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:29:12 +0100

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 3 (IPS) - Until the Taliban were forced to flee by the military, the militant group’s deadly opposition to vaccination had been severely hampering efforts to make Pakistan a polio-free country in the foreseeable future. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)

Major Reason For Nigerian Boycott Of Polio Vaccine [Letters]

Health Affairs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:03:47 +0100

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Polio Vaccine: The Authors Respond [Letters]

Health Affairs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:03:47 +0100

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Weakest Links In Polio Vaccination [Letters]

Health Affairs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:03:47 +0100

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Vaccines as a trigger for myopathies.

Lupus — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Authors: Orbach H, Tanay A Vaccines are considered to be among the greatest medical discoveries, credited with the virtual eradication of some diseases and the consequent improved survival and quality of life of the at-risk population. With that, vaccines are among the environmental factors implicated as triggers for the development of inflammatory myopathies. The sporadic reports on vaccine-induced inflammatory myopathies include cases of hepatitis B virus, bacillus Calmette-Guérin, tetanus, influenza, smallpox, polio, diphtheria, diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus, combination of diphtheria with scarlet fever and diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus with polio vaccines. However, a significant increase in the incidence of dermatomyositis or polymyositis after any massive vaccination campaign h...

Public health response to imported case of poliomyelitis, Australia, 2007.

Emerging Infectious Diseases — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We describe the public health response and outcomes resulting from the importation of a wild poliovirus infection in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2007. This response, based on an assessment of the risk for transmission, included offering vaccination with inactivated polio vaccine to the contacts and placing the index patient in isolation and the household contacts in quarantine until consecutive fecal specimens were negative for poliovirus by culture. The experience gained from the polio importation event in Australia may assist other polio-free countries to prepare for, and respond to, a similar event. No secondary clinical cases resulted from this importation. PMID: 19891859 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases)

Immunogenicity and Safety of a Pentavalent Diphtheria, Tetanus, Acellular Pertussis, Inactivated Poliovirus, Haemophilus influenzae Type b Conjugate Combination Vaccine (Pentaxim) with Hepatitis B Vaccine.

Indian Pediatrics — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Conclusion: The DTaP-IPV//PRP~T vaccine, given concomitantly with monovalent hepatitis B vaccine, was highly immunogenic at 6, 10 and 14 weeks of age in infants in India. The vaccine was well tolerated. PMID: 19955579 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Indian Pediatrics)

Chad: National Polio Vaccinations Underway

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:43 +0100

A three-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign began on 30 October throughout Chad, including in the east where according to the World Health Organization the rate of routine immunizations is among the weakest nationwide. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda - Pump Up the Volume - Part Five

NaturalNews.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

This article is part five in a six-part series. Be sure to read part four at http://www.naturalnews.com/027336_swine_flu_health_propaganda.htmlIn the video commentary titled, Mild Swine Flu and Over-Hyped Vaccine, on the website for the National Vaccine Information Center, the group's co-founder and president, Barbara Loe Fisher, reports: "We are witnessing a roll-out of the largest, most expensive mass vaccination campaign in the history of our nation. A rollout that is bigger than even the polio vaccine campaigns of the 1950's.""If you or your child are injured from getting a flu swine flu shot, you are on your own," Fisher warns."Because Congress shielded the vaccine manufacturers and any person giving swine flu shots from lawsuits if people get hurt," she says. "There is no funded gove...

Outbreak Of Poliomyelitis In Finland In 1984-85 - Re-Analysis Of Viral Sequences Using The Current Standard Approach.

Virus Research — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Authors: Simonen ML, Roivainen M, Iber J, Burns C, Hovi T In 1984, a wild type 3 poliovirus (PV3/FIN84) spread all over Finland causing nine cases of paralytic poliomyelitis and one case of aseptic meningitis. The outbreak was ended in 1985 with an intensive vaccination campaign. By limited sequence comparison with previously isolated PV3 strains, closest relatives of PV3/FIN84 were found among strains circulating in the Mediterranean region. Now we wanted to reanalyse the relationships using approaches currently exploited in poliovirus surveillance. Cell lysates of twenty strains isolated during the outbreak and stored frozen were subjected to RT-PCR amplification in three genomic regions without prior subculture. Sequences of the entire VP1 coding region, 150 nucleotides in the VP1-2...

On This Day in Science History - October 28 - Jonas Salk and the March of Dimes

About.com Chemistry — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:05:05 +0100

October 28th is Jonas Salk's birthday. Salk was an American physician who developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine. For much of the 20th century, polio was a major epidemic, killing or paralyzing its victims, mostly children. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to raise funds to fight the disease and care for those who had it. The Foundation began a national radio program effort asking for just a dime from each family. The "March of Dimes" was an annual drive for funds and eventually the Foundation renamed itself. In 1955 Jonas Salk, one of the researchers funded by the March of Dimes, announced a safe vaccine against the virus. After the success of the vaccine, the March of Dimes changed its focus to infant health and the...

Molecular characterization of poliovirus isolates from children who contracted vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) following administration of monovalent type 3 oral poliovirus vaccine in the 1960s in Hungary

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Hungarian children were immunized with monovalent oral poliovaccine (mOPV) delivered at 6-week intervals in the order Sabin 1, Sabin 3, Sabin 2, from 1959 until 1992. During that period, 90 cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) were reported, 52 of which were associated with Sabin 3-related virus (76% of VAPP cases with virologic data). Because of renewed interest in type 3 mOPV (mOPV3), molecular methods were used to reanalyze 18 of the Sabin 3-related isolates from 15 VAPP patients, confirming the original identification. All isolates had the U472C 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) substitution associated with reversion to neurovirulence, and from zero to seven nucleotide substitutions in the virus protein 1 (VP1) region. No evidence was found for prolonged mOPV3 repli...

Harmony morality: The Heart of Morality (4a of 9 parts)

Psychology Today Personality Center — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:20:32 +0100

Whom do people typically admire for their moral behavior? Those driven by Bunker morality, like Osama bin Laden or Hitler? Although perverted people (e.g., Charles Manson) are sometimes admired, this is atypical (or a naïve adolescent fantasy). Most people don't want to put on the sweater of a murderer (Rozin, Markwith & McCauley, 1994). No way.Rather, people typically admire those who are courageous and humanitarian, who treat others with deep respect, and who act beyond their own interests to help others, like Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine and gave it away, or Norman Borlaug, who brought about the green revolution, saving a billion lives (again with little recompense), or Florence Nightingale, who forsook her wealthy heritage to serve the poor and wounded as a nurse, pr...

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Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication --- Nigeria, january 2008--july 2009.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This report provides an update on progress toward polio eradication in Nigeria during 2008--2009 and activities planned to interrupt transmission. During 2008--2009, Nigeria was the source for WPV1 transmission to 11 countries and WPV type 3 (WPV3) transmission to four countries. In addition, transmission of circulating type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) has been ongoing since 2005. WPV1 cases decreased 87%, from 574 during January--July 2008 to 73 for the same period in 2009. However, WPV3 cases rose approximately six-fold, from 51 during January--July 2008 to 303 during the same period in 2009, partly because of the increased emphasis on controlling WPV1. The decline in the proportion of children who have never received oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in the highest- incidence nort...

Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication--Nigeria, January 2008-July 2009.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This report provides an update on progress toward polio eradication in Nigeria during 2008-2009 and activities planned to interrupt transmission. During 2008-2009, Nigeria was the source for WPV1 transmission to 11 countries and WPV type 3 (WPV3) transmission to four countries. In addition, transmission of circulating type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) has been ongoing since 2005. WPV1 cases decreased 87%, from 574 during January-July 2008 to 73 for the same period in 2009. However, WPV3 cases rose approximately six-fold, from 51 during January-July 2008 to 303 during the same period in 2009, partly because of the increased emphasis on controlling WPV1. The decline in the proportion of children who have never received oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) in the highest- incidence northern...

Also noted

The Journal of Pediatrics — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:03:57 +0100

This study examines whether the pain response to administration of the diphtheria, polio, and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine and the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is affected by the order in which they are given. With the validated Modified Behavioral Pain Scale, videotaped recordings of the procedure (to assess crying), and parental ratings of pain on a visual analog scale, they found that children had less pain (on all 3 measures) when the diphtheria, polio, and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis and diphtheria, polio, and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis and H influenzae type b was given before the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Reducing pain through this simple intervention will benefit the child and may increase adherenc...

CDC: Vaccines a public health success

Health News - UPI.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:42:34 +0100

ATLANTA, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Vaccines are one of the greatest success stories in public health, having eliminated smallpox and nearly rid the world of polio, U.S. health officials said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)

Poliovirus vaccine live oral: Paralytic poliomyelitis in infants: 3 case reports

Reactions — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:04:56 +0100

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Paracetamol affects childhood jabs

NHS News Feed — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:25:00 +0100

Giving paracetamol to babies following a vaccine jab may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, according to research reported on by BBC news. The study behind this news coverage is an important and well-conducted trial in which 459 babies receiving their routine immunisations were either routinely given paracetamol in the 24 hours following their injection or were given none. Although the drug was clearly successful in reducing the risk of a fever developing, it was shown to reduce the immune response to the vaccine, suggesting that it would be less effective. Although the preventative use of paracetamol had an effect on immune response, using the drug to lower existing fever did not. Parents should not be concerned about giving paracetamol to their child to treat a raised temper...

Physical interventions and injection techniques for reducing injection pain during routine childhood immunizations: systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi-randomized controlled trials.

Clinical Therapeutics — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:36:03 +0100

CONCLUSIONS: Pain during immunization can be decreased by: (1) injecting the least painful formulation of a vaccine; (2) having the child sit up (or holding an infant); (3) stroking the skin or applying pressure close to the injection site before and during injection; (4) injecting the least painful vaccine first when 2 vaccines are being administered sequentially during a single office visit; and (5) performing a rapid intramuscular injection without aspiration. PMID: 19781436 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Therapeutics)

Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine

NaturalNews.com — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

(NaturalNews) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You're about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued promotion is based entirely on fabricated studies and medical mythology.If the whole world knew what you're about to read here, the vaccine industry would collapse overnight.This information comes to you courtesy of a brilliant article published in The Atlantic (November 2009). The article, written by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, isn't just brilliant; in my opinion it stands as the best article on flu vaccines that has ever been published in the popular press. Entitled Does the vaccine matte...

Grand Challenges Explorations Round 4

ScanGrants feed — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100

is now open. Applications are being accepted until November 2, 2009. Phase I grants will be for $100,000 USD. Phase I projects that show promise in the first year will be eligible for follow-on funding. Topics for Round 4 are: Create New Technologies for Contraception Create New Ways to Induce and Measure Mucosal Immunity Create Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health Conditions Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease. TOPIC: Create New Technologies for Contraception What We Are Looking For: The goal of this topic is to solicit novel and innovative approaches to preventing unintended pregnancy. We seek proposals that are "off the beaten track," daring in premise, and clearly different from the approaches currently being developed or employed. Technologies...

Gail McGovern: Have Fun Saving the World

Red Cross Chat — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:24:17 +0100

Today I’m answering the question: Where would you like the organization to be in 2020? I am very impressed with the talent and willingness of employees and volunteers in the Red Cross to rally around some of the changes we’ve been making, whether it’s the One Red Cross initiative, the steps that are happening in biomedical to ensure compliance, the work we’re doing with Marketing and Development messages, and so on. In virtually every area, we are making enormous strides in transforming the American Red Cross. I’m amazed and pleased with how quickly the organization has embraced the direction. It gives me great optimism. When we have our operational changes in effect and our financial challenges are behind us, the big question is, “What are we going to do next?” The in...

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Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal law

NaturalNews.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

(NaturalNews) Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. On behalf of plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and other licensed health care workers of New York State, the lawsuit charges that the FDA violated the law in its hasty approval of four swine flu vaccines by failing to scientifically determine neither the safety nor efficacy of the vaccines."The suit will seek an injunction against the FDA from approving the vaccine," attorney Jim Turner told NaturalNews on Thursday evening's Natural News Talk Hour show. "And the core of the argument is that they have not done the proper safety and efficacy tests on the vaccine to allow it to be release at this time."The suit seeks to...

Historical Data Shows Vaccines are Not what Saved Us

NaturalNews.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100

(NaturalNews) With all of the hype surrounding the H1N1 swine flu virus lately, everyone is very concerned with the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and rightly so. This is a very important question that we must all ask ourselves and find out what the truth is. As the debate rages on an even more important question has rarely been asked. Do vaccines even protect you from the viruses and illnesses that they claim to?If you only get your news and information from mainstream news and educational sources, then the question about whether vaccines are effective is never even raised. This lack of discussion give the perception that they are so effective that only a crazy or ignorant person would even think otherwise. Of course that is the perception that they are trying to get across to you,...

Nigeria: Sultan Tells Parents Polio Vaccines Not Harmful

AllAfrica News: Polio — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:44:41 +0100

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar 111, has called on parents to allow their children to be immunised against polio, saying the vaccines are safe. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Also In Global Health News: Drought In East Africa; Improving Food Processing In Africa; Hajj Pilgrims Must Take Polio Vaccine; Fighting Insecticide-R

Health News from Medical News Today — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:00:00 +0100

Oxfam Launches $15M Emergency Appeal For 'Severe' East African Drought "A severe and persistent five-year drought" is pushing "[m]ore than 23 million people ... towards severe hunger and destitution across East Africa, international aid agency Oxfam has warned as it launches a Â£9.5 million [about $15 million] emergency appeal," the U.K. Press Association reports (9/29). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Global Update: Saudi Arabia: Pilgrims Who Travel to Mecca This Fall Will Get an Oral Polio Vaccine on Arrival

NYT > Health — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:34:14 +0100

The country announces it is giving $30 million to efforts to eradicate the disease worldwide. (Source: NYT > Health)

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Time for a Worldwide Shift from Oral Polio Vaccine to Inactivated Polio Vaccine

Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:34:10 +0100

Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 8, Page 1287-1288, 15 October 2009. (Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue)

Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants (preview)

Scientific American - Official RSS Feed — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:00:00 +0100

The thought of birth defects caused by rubella, rows of iron lungs housing children crippled by polio, or the horrific sound of a baby struggling with whooping cough can still evoke dread among people who have seen firsthand the damage inflicted by these and other vaccine-preventable diseases. Fortunately, those scourges are virtually unknown to modern generations that have had access to vaccines all their lives.For more than 200 years vaccines have proved to be one of the most successful, lifesaving and economical methods of preventing infectious disease, second only to the sanitization of water. Vaccines have spared millions of people from early death or crippling illnesses and made the global eradication of smallpox in 1979 possible. Health experts now pledge to eliminate polio, measles...

Nigeria: Imam Urges Muslims On Vaccination

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:37:22 +0100

The acting Chief Imam of Kano Sheik Nasir Muhammad Nasir has called on Muslims in the state to continue to support government's efforts against polio through vaccination of children. He was speaking at the Eid-el-Fitr sermon he delivered in Kano Sunday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Cervarix (human papillomavirus vaccine) - Revised SPC

NeLM - Immunology and vaccination — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Source: eMC (electronic Medicines Compendium) Area: Other Library Updates > SPC Changes New information has been included in section 4.5 (interactions) which is as follows: Use with other vaccines Cervarix may be administered concomitantly with a combined booster vaccine containing diphtheria (d), tetanus (T) and pertussis [acellular] (pa) with or without inactivated poliomyelitis (IPV), (dTpa, dTpa-IPV vaccines), with no clinically relevant interference with antibody response to any of the components of either vaccine. The sequential administration of combined dTpa-IPV followed by Cervarix one month later tended to elicit lower anti-HPV-16 and anti-HPV-18 GMTs as compared to Cervarix alone. The clinical significance of this observation is not known. If Cervarix is to be given at th...

Update on vaccine-derived polioviruses--worldwide, January 2008-June 2009.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

This report updates previous summaries and describes VDPVs detected worldwide during January 2008-June 2009. During this period, 1) two new outbreaks of circulating VDPVs (cVDPVs) (accounting for 4-20 cases) were identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia; 2) a previously identified outbreak in Nigeria ultimately resulted in a cumulative total of 292 cases; 3) two newly identified paralyzed immunodeficient persons in Argentina and the United States were found to excrete VDPVs; and 4) isolated VDPVs were found among persons and environmental samples in 11 countries. All countries need to maintain 1) high rates of poliovirus vaccination coverage to prevent VDPV spread and 2) sensitive poliovirus surveillance to detect VDPVs. PMID: 19763076 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ...

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Nigeria: New Polio Vaccine to Be Included in Immunization

AllAfrica News: Polio — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:52:04 +0100

As efforts by the Federal Government to interrupt the spread of the polio virus increases, a new vaccine, Bivalent oral polio vaccine, will be included in the immunization plus days. The new drug is capable of dealing effectively with the type 1 and type 3 polio virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

Medical and Nursing Students with Suboptimal Protective Immunity against Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases •

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:32:10 +0100

Conclusions. We have determined that there is a certain proportion of healthcare students who are susceptible to certain vaccine‐preventable diseases. The development of an appropriate vaccination strategy is required to decrease the risk of transmission in a hospital setting. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)

Polio Vaccination Resumes In Pakistan's Swat Valley

Health News from Medical News Today — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:00:00 +0100

"Authorities in Pakistan's Swat Valley have resumed vaccinating children for polio, an act once banned by Taliban militants, now beaten back by an army offensive," the Associated Press reports. The three-day campaign, which started on Monday, is targeting about 215,000 children, said government official Khurshid Khan. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

[Current vaccination coverage and immunization gaps of children and adolescents in Germany.]

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Authors: Reiter S, Poethko-Müller C Available data show increasing vaccination coverage of children and adolescents in recent years in Germany. Vaccination coverage of children against diphtheria, tetanus, polio and haemophilus influenzae Type b is high. Vaccination gaps exist for pertussis, hepatitis B and for the second measles, mumps and rubella doses. Coverage is still insufficient to achieve effective herd immunity and measles elimination. Data from the representative German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents reveal that vaccination of infants is markedly delayed compared to recommendations of the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO). Particularly older children and adolescents are often not fully vaccinated or are even unvaccinat...

Pakistan Resumes Polio Vaccines Halted by Taliban

ABC News: Health — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:34:55 +0100

Pakistan resumes vaccinating children in Swat for polio after Taliban halted practice (Source: ABC News: Health)

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Levels of childhood vaccination coverage and the impact of maternal HIV status on child vaccination status in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa*

Tropical Medicine and International Health — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Conclusion Positive maternal HIV status independently reduces children's probability to receive child vaccinations, which likely contributes to the morbidity and mortality differential between children of HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers. As a means of increasing vaccination coverage, policy makers should consider increasing the number of mobile clinics in this and similar communities in rural Africa. (Source: Tropical Medicine and International Health)

Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Protein D-Conjugate Vaccine (Synflorix; PHiD-CV).

Paediatric Drugs — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:22:02 +0100

Authors: Croxtall JD, Keating GM black triangle The pneumococcal polysaccharide protein D-conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV; Synflorix) contains ten capsular polysaccharide serotypes from the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, eight of which are conjugated to a nonlipidated cell-surface liporotein (protein D) of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) and two of which are conjugated to either tetanus or diphtheria toxoid. black triangle In a three-dose primary vaccination schedule in infants aged <6 months, PHiD-CV elicited high immune responses against all pneumococcal serotypes contained in the vaccine and was noninferior to an approved 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vCRM) for eight of the ten serotypes (five of the seven common to both vaccines). Moreover, functional anti...

Laboratory surveillance for wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses - worldwide, January 2008-June 2009.

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

This report updates previous reports and summarizes GPLN activities and detection of WPVs and VDPVs during January 2008-June 2009. During this period, GPLN tested 247,794 fecal samples from 127,566 acute flaccid paralysis cases, from which 14,279 (5.8%) poliovirus isolates (vaccine-related and WPV) were detected, including 4,280 (1.7%) WPVs from 22 countries. GPLN laboratory capacity and capabilities remain an integral part of surveillance for polioviruses and efforts to eliminate polio from the remaining areas of circulation. PMID: 19730408 [PubMed - in process] (Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl...)

Population dynamics of live-attenuated virus vaccines.

Theoretical Population Biology — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Authors: Wagner BG, Earn DJ Viruses contained in live-attenuated virus vaccines (LAVV) can be transmitted between individuals, resulting in secondary or contact vaccinations. This fact has been exploited successfully in the use of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) to better control wild-type polio viruses. In this work we analyze general LAVV vaccination models for infections that confer lifelong immunity. We consider both standard (continuous) vaccination strategies and pulse vaccination programs (where mass vaccination is carried out at regular intervals). For continuous vaccination, we provide a complete global analysis of a very general compartmental ordinary differential equation LAVV model. We find that the threshold vaccination level required for eradication of wild-type virus depend...

NHS immunisation statistics England 2008-09

NeLM - Immunology and vaccination — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Source: NHS Information Centre Area: News The NHS Information Centre has published immunisation statistics for England 2008-09; the key findings are as follows: . Over 87% of 12-13 year old girls (school year 8) received the first dose and 70% completing the programme of all 3 doses of HPV immunisation. . 78% of children received first and second doses of MMR vaccine between the ages of 2 and 5, a 4% increase on the previous year's figure; although London remains below the national average. . Uptake of vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b and meningitis C for children reaching their second birthday in 2008-09, was between 92% and 94%, and has been stable for the last five years. .&n...

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Deconstructing Social Resistance to Pulse Polio Campaign in Two North Indian Districts.

Indian Pediatrics — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Conclusion: While the programs focus was on microbiological issues, the obstacles to polio eradication lie in the endemicity of social (and or cultural) resistance in some pockets, leading to clustering of perpetually unimmunized children inspite of good coverage of SIAs at macro level. This may sustain low levels of wild poliovirus transmission, and there can be exceptions to the robustness of the pulse approach. A micro level involvement of volunteers from marginalized pockets of minorities might be able to minimize or eliminate this resistance. PMID: 19736365 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Indian Pediatrics)

Polio Vaccine Guidelines Updated

Family Practice News — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

The final dose of the standard four-dose vaccination series with inactivated poliovirus should be administered at 4 years of age or older after a minimum interval of 6 months after the third dose, according to updated recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. (Source: Family Practice News)

Updated Polio Vaccine Recommendations Set For Optimum Early and Long-Term Protection

Pediatric News — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

CpG oligodeoxynucleotides are a potent adjuvant for an inactivated polio vaccine produced from Sabin strains of poliovirus.

Vaccine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

In this study, we evaluated the adjuvanticity of CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG-ODN) for an experimental IPV produced from Sabin strains of poliovirus. Our results showed that CpG-ODN, alone or in combination with alum, can significantly enhance both the humoral and cellular immune responses to IPV in mice, and, consequently, the antigen dose could be reduced substantially. Therefore, our study suggests that the global use of IPV could be facilitated by using CpG-ODN or other feasible adjuvants. PMID: 19729087 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Vaccine)

Historical facts about the dangers (and failures) of vaccines

NaturalNews.com — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:00:00 +0100

(NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about vaccines:• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 1...

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Medical and Nursing Students with Suboptimal Protective Immunity against Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:01:17 +0100

New vaccines for developing countries: will it be feast or famine?

American Journal of Law and Medicine — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:56:05 +0100

Authors: Andrus JK, de Quadros C, Matus CR, Luciani S, Hotez P The Revolving Fund of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has an almost 30 year track record of providing access to essential vaccines for the entire population of Latin America and the Caribbean region. The activities of the PAHO Revolving Fund, coupled with the provision of high-quality technical assistance, were crucial to the successful control, elimination, or eradication of most of the region's great childhood killers, including measles and polio. Today, however, the Revolving Fund faces new challenges in the form of procuring a new generation of vaccines for human papillomavirus infection, rotavirus, and pneumococcal disease, which are priced orders of magnitude higher than the traditional childhood vaccines....

Clinical Trial Examines Potency and Side Effects of Swine Flu Vaccine

Wash Post Health — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Arthur Fergenson, a 61-year-old Baltimore lawyer, has been volunteering to test vaccines since 1954. That's when, as a second-grader, he stood in line in his school gymnasium to receive a vaccine to prevent polio. He remembers that the nurse didn't stick the needle in far enough, the liquid spurted... (Source: Wash Post Health)

Polio vaccine recommendations updated to reduce confusion, add clarity [INFECTIOUS DISEASE UPDATE]

AAP News — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

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Type of polio 'resurrected' in Nigeria

SciDev.Net — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:00:00 +0100

The only form of poliovirus eradicated is causing disease in Nigeria, leading to fears that vaccination efforts are futile. (Source: SciDev.Net)

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Polio vaccine recommendations updated to reduce confusion, add clarity [NEWS AND FEATURES]

AAP News — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

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Associated Press Examines Use Of Oral Polio Vaccine In Nigeria, Risk Of Virus Mutation

Health News from Medical News Today — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:00 +0100

The Associated Press examines how the oral polio vaccine, "made from a live polio virus - albeit weakened," is contributing to the spread of the disease in Nigeria. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Nigeria: Polio Surge in The Country After Vaccine Virus Mutates

AllAfrica News: Polio — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:27:50 +0100

The dreaded paralysing disease stamped out in the developed orld, is spreading in Nigeria, the Associated Press reported weekend. It quoted health officials as saying in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

U.S. schools gear up for swine flu shots

CTV Health — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:43:43 +0100

Hundreds of U.S. schools are heeding the call from Washington to set up flu-shot clinics this fall, preparing for what could be the most widespread school vaccinations since the days of polio. (Source: CTV Health)

Nigeria: Polio Surge After Vaccine Virus Mutates

AllAfrica News: Polio — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:30:28 +0100

The dreaded paralysing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria, the Associated Press reported weekend. It quoted health officials as saying in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

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Schools Set For Extensive H1N1 Vaccinations

WDSU.com - Health — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:27:03 +0100

American schools are preparing for what could be the most widespread vaccination effort since the days of polio. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)

Schools Nationwide Plan to Offer H1N1 Vaccination Clinics

RWJF News Digest - Public Health — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Hundreds of schools nationwide are establishing clinics to administer vaccines against the H1N1 virus, representing what could be the most widespread school vaccination effort "since the days of polio," the Associated Press reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)

Mutant Polio Virus Spreads in Nigeria

Health News: CBSNews.com — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:00:07 +0100

124 Children Afflicted This Year By Paralyzing Disease, Believed To Be Caused By Same Vaccine Used To Fight It (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Polio surges in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates

CTV Health — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:43:36 +0100

Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it's caused by the vaccine used to fight it. (Source: CTV Health)

Polio surge in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates

USATODAY.com Health — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:37:27 +0100

Polio, a dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria despite efforts to stamp ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)

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Angola: Over 300,000 Children to Be Vaccinated against Polio

AllAfrica News: Polio — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:29:03 +0100

The Broad Vaccination Programme (PAV) expects to vaccinate 311,619 children below the age of five in central Huambo province, from August 14 to 16, in the light of the fulfilment of the second phase of the broad vaccination campaign against poliomyelitis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)

CDC Advisory Committee Updates Polio Vaccination Recommendations

Physician's First Watch current issue — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

(Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)

Immunization Programs for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:32:03 +0100

Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 000, Latest Articles. Evidence‐based guidelines for immunization of infants, children, adolescents, and adults have been prepared by an Expert Panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). These updated guidelines replace the previous immunization guidelines published in 2002. These guidelines are prepared for health care professionals who care for either immunocompetent or immunocompromised people of all ages. Since 2002, the capacity to prevent more infectious diseases has increased markedly for several reasons: new vaccines have been licensed (human papillomavirus vaccine; live, attenuated influenza vaccine; meningococcal conjugate vaccine; rotavirus vaccine; tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellu...

ACIP Revises Polio Vaccination Recommendations (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Infectious Disease — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:57:02 +0100

Children should receive the final dose in the poliovirus vaccine schedule between 4 and 6 years of age, even if they've already had four doses, according to updated guidelines from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)