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Also In Global Health News: Sleeping Sickness; Aid For Philippines; U.S., China In Africa; Polio Eradication In Afghanistan; Ethiopia FamineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lancet Infectious Diseases Examines Hold-Ups In Implementation Of Sleeping Sickness Therapy (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news

[Newsdesk] Childhood vaccination and progress towards MDG4Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 measl...
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - November 16, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kathryn Senior Tags: Newsdesk Source Type: journals

New oral vaccine to be introduced to check spread of polio in IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New Delhi - The Indian government will soon introduce a bivalent oral polio vaccine to check the persistent spread (Source: Monsters and Critics Health News)
Source: Monsters and Critics Health News - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Exploded: myth of miracle bomb detectorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 kil...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 14, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: New York Times Science Iraq World news Media The Guardian Comment Comment is free Source Type: news

Also In Global Health News: Childhood Vaccines; USAID Administrator; Pakistan Polio Fight; UNICEF Fundraising; Measles In IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Pediatrics News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Immune System / vaccines Source Type: news

Also In Global Health News: Childhood Vaccines; USAID Administrator; Pakistan Polio Fight; UNICEF Fundraising; Measles In IndiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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, The International examines the findings that "despite ch (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / vaccines Source Type: news

PAKISTAN: Polio Vaccination: One Hurdle Down, One More to GoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Major Reason For Nigerian Boycott Of Polio Vaccine [Letters]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Health Affairs)
Source: Health Affairs - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Frishman, A. Tags: Letters Source Type: journals

Polio Vaccine: The Authors Respond [Letters]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Health Affairs - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kaufmann, J. R., Feldbaum, H. Tags: Letters Source Type: journals

Weakest Links In Polio Vaccination [Letters]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Health Affairs)
Source: Health Affairs - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Arya, S. C., Agarwal, N. Tags: Letters Source Type: journals

Vaccines as a trigger for myopathies.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 wi...
Source: Lupus - November 1, 2009 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Orbach H, Tanay A Tags: Lupus Source Type: journals

Public health response to imported case of poliomyelitis, Australia, 2007.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 clini...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - November 1, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Carnie JA, Lester R, Moran R, Brown L, Meagher J, Roberts JA, Thorley BR Tags: Emerg Infect Dis Source Type: journals

Chad: National Polio Vaccinations UnderwayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 30, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda - Pump Up the Volume - Part FiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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," Fis...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Outbreak Of Poliomyelitis In Finland In 1984-85 - Re-Analysis Of Viral Sequences Using The Current Standard Approach.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 g...
Source: Virus Research - October 30, 2009 Category: Virology Authors: Simonen ML, Roivainen M, Iber J, Burns C, Hovi T Tags: Virus Res Source Type: journals

On This Day in Science History - October 28 - Jonas Salk and the March of DimesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: About.com Chemistry - October 28, 2009 Category: Chemistry Source Type: consumer

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 HungaryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 associa...
Source: FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology - October 23, 2009 Category: Microbiology Authors: Beatrix Kapusinszky, Zsuzsanna Molnár, Katalin N. Szomor, György Berencsi Source Type: journals

Harmony morality: The Heart of Morality (4a of 9 parts)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Morality Personality Relationships Social Life adolescent fantasy altruism charles manson compassion florence nightingale green revolution helpfulness Hurricane Katrina jonas salk looters love mammal Source Type: consumer

Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication --- Nigeria, january 2008--july 2009.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals

Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication--Nigeria, January 2008-July 2009.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals

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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 an...
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - October 20, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Current Best Evidence Source Type: journals

CDC: Vaccines a public health successEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Poliovirus vaccine live oral: Paralytic poliomyelitis in infants: 3 case reportsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Reactions)
Source: Reactions - October 19, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Short communication Source Type: journals

Paracetamol affects childhood jabsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ef...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy/child Medication Source Type: news

Physical interventions and injection techniques for reducing injection pain during routine childhood immunizations: systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi-randomized controlled trials.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Clinical Therapeutics - October 14, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Taddio A, Ilersich AL, Ipp M, Kikuta A, Shah V, Tags: Clin Ther Source Type: journals

Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(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 Le...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Grand Challenges Explorations Round 4Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - October 13, 2009 Category: Research Authors: Grand Challenges in Global Health/Gates Foundation Source Type: funding

Gail McGovern: Have Fun Saving the WorldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Red Cross Chat - October 12, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gail J McGovern Tags: Leadership International Source Type: organizations

Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal lawEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(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 sh...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Historical Data Shows Vaccines are Not what Saved UsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(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 percepti...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Nigeria: Sultan Tells Parents Polio Vaccines Not HarmfulEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 8, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Also In Global Health News: Drought In East Africa; Improving Food Processing In Africa; Hajj Pilgrims Must Take Polio Vaccine; Fighting Insecticide-REmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Aid / Disasters Source Type: news

Global Update: Saudi Arabia: Pilgrims Who Travel to Mecca This Fall Will Get an Oral Polio Vaccine on ArrivalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The country announces it is giving $30 million to efforts to eradicate the disease worldwide. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - September 28, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Tags: poliomyelitis Saudi Arabia Medicine and Health Source Type: news

Time for a Worldwide Shift from Oral Polio Vaccine to Inactivated Polio VaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 8, Page 1287-1288, 15 October 2009. (Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue)
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - September 25, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: journals

Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants (preview)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 mill...
Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed - September 23, 2009 Category: Science Tags: Biology,Chemistry,Health,Technology,What ' s Next,Science in Service Source Type: journals

Nigeria: Imam Urges Muslims On VaccinationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 22, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Cervarix (human papillomavirus vaccine) - Revised SPCEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 e...
Source: NeLM - Immunology and vaccination - September 19, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: organizations

Update on vaccine-derived polioviruses--worldwide, January 2008-June 2009.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ra...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - September 17, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals

Nigeria: New Polio Vaccine to Be Included in ImmunizationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - September 17, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Medical and Nursing Students with Suboptimal Protective Immunity against Vaccine‐Preventable Diseases • Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - September 10, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Polio Vaccination Resumes In Pakistan's Swat ValleyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
"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)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news

[Current vaccination coverage and immunization gaps of children and adolescents in Germany.]Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Co...
Source: Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz - September 9, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Reiter S, Poethko-Müller C Tags: Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz Source Type: journals

Pakistan Resumes Polio Vaccines Halted by TalibanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pakistan resumes vaccinating children in Swat for polio after Taliban halted practice (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - September 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Levels of childhood vaccination coverage and the impact of maternal HIV status on child vaccination status in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa*Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Tropical Medicine and International Health - September 6, 2009 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: James Ndirangu, Till Bärnighausen, Frank Tanser, Khin Tint, Marie-Louise Newell Source Type: journals

Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Protein D-Conjugate Vaccine (Synflorix; PHiD-CV).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 pne...
Source: Paediatric Drugs - September 4, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Croxtall JD, Keating GM Tags: Paediatr Drugs Source Type: journals

Laboratory surveillance for wild and vaccine-derived polioviruses - worldwide, January 2008-June 2009.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...)
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - September 3, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals

Population dynamics of live-attenuated virus vaccines.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 compartmen...
Source: Theoretical Population Biology - September 3, 2009 Category: Biology Authors: Wagner BG, Earn DJ Tags: Theor Popul Biol Source Type: journals

NHS immunisation statistics England 2008-09Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 influ...
Source: NeLM - Immunology and vaccination - September 2, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: organizations

Deconstructing Social Resistance to Pulse Polio Campaign in Two North Indian Districts.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Indian Pediatrics - September 2, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Chaturvedi S, Dasgupta R, Adhish V, Ganguly KK, Rai S, Sushant L, Srabasti S, Arora NK Tags: Indian Pediatr Source Type: journals

Polio Vaccine Guidelines UpdatedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Family Practice News - August 31, 2009 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jeff Evans Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news