Super-engineered vaccines created to help end polio
The first new polio vaccines in 50 years are less likely to mutate into a dangerous form that causes disease. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mozambique: Ministry Preparing New Polio Vaccination Campaign
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Health Ministry plans to vaccinate over 15 million children under the age of 15, in a further round of vaccination against polio. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 13, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Mozambique Polio Southern Africa Source Type: news
Biden ’s FTC is blocking a game-changer for cancer patients
Seventy years ago, Dr. Jonas Salk announced to an astonished radio audience he had developed a polio vaccine. It must have seemed too good to be true. The year before, polio claimed 3,000 American lives and infected another 60,000. Millions lived in fear of contracting the incurable disease.…#jonassalk #linakhan #grail #illumina #edison #avalerehealth #medicare #nsclc #ftc (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
2022 Marks Most Violent Year Against Health Workers in Conflicts: Report
June 05, 2023Anew report published by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents 1,989 attacks and threats against health care facilities and personnel across 32 countries and territories in armed conflict and situations of political violence throughout 2022. The reported figure represents the most severe year of attacks against health care in the last decade globally. Over half of all attacks were reported in just two countries, Ukraine and Myanmar. The report identifies more than 750 attacks perpetrated by the Russian Federation on health care in Ukraine alone–the most committed in a single year...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Policy & Advocacy Health in Conflict Health Workers Source Type: news
Africa: Africa's Largest Polio Vaccination Drive Since 2020 Targets 21 Million Children
[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- Africa's largest polio vaccination campaign since 2020 kicks off today in three West and Central African countries, in a combined effort by national health authorities to immunise a total 21 million children under the age of five. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Malawi: Ministry of Health Upbeat to Surpass 9 Million Children in Vaccination Campaign
[Nyasa Times] Officials from Ministry of Health are upbeat they will surpass the nine million children target for the integrated mass immunisation campaign against typhoid, Polio, measles and rubella. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 22, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The Most Effective Way to Get Through to Parents Who Won ’ t Vaccinate Their Kids
This study tells us that parents really value what they hear from other parents who they trust when it comes to decisions about vaccinating their children,” says Marie Heffernan, lead author of the paper and assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “The current study was in the context of the COVID-19 vaccine for children, but we can think about this in terms of other routine childhood vaccinations as well.”
Not all of the findings were uniform across the sample group. Ethnicity, in particular, made a difference. In the “trusted pare...
Source: TIME: Health - May 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Vaccines Source Type: news
The Guardian view on the vaccine shortfall: tackling disruption and distrust | Editorial
Millions of children have missed routine immunisations due to the pandemic. But saving lives is about more than logisticsThe horror of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it one small cause for optimism: the crisisaccelerated the development of new vaccine technologies, with the potential to protect against other diseases. Yet this leap forward was accompanied by a dramatic backsliding in the delivery of existing vaccines, with23 million children missing out on routine immunisations in 2020 and 25 million in 2021 – the largest sustained decline in three decades.The World Health Organization reports that more prevalent and...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 2, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Editorial Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Health Global health Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science World Health Organization Source Type: news
Africa: 'Vaccinate Against Deadly Diseases Including Covid-19'
[ADAPT] African Vaccination Week is a crucial reminder of the life-saving power of vaccines. From COVID-19 to polio, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, influenza, rotavirus, measles, and the human papillomavirus (HPV), vaccines offer protection against deadly diseases. With this week falling on the last week of April, there is no better time to prioritize vaccination. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
People Lost Faith in Childhood Vaccines During COVID Pandemic, UNICEF Says People Lost Faith in Childhood Vaccines During COVID Pandemic, UNICEF Says
People all over the world lost confidence in the importance of routine childhood vaccines against killer diseases like measles and polio during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from UNICEF.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Vaccine Mandates Are Not Enough to Solve Our Infectious Disease Problem
(MedPage Today) -- In the early 2000s, America achieved a public health milestone that once seemed impossible -- the elimination of the measles virus. This victory followed the remarkable breakthrough of eliminating the nightmare of polio in... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - April 11, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Update on Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks - Worldwide, January 2021-December 2022
This report describes outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses during January 2021-December 2022. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Polio (poliomyelitis) Polio Vaccination Source Type: news
800 000 children to be vaccinated against measles and polio across earthquake-stricken ...
Cairo/Amman, 7 April 2023 – A measles and polio vaccination campaign will launch tomorrow across northwest Syria to protect some 800 000 children under 5 years of age from 2 deadly but preventable diseases.
The vaccination drive, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in coordination with local health workers, the Syria Immunization Group and Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, launches just over 2 months since the earthquakes that devastated northern Syria and southern Türkiye.
“Protecting the youngest and most vulnerable children from potential disease ...
Source: WHO EMRO News - April 5, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Africa: Polio - Leading Virologist Offers a Beginner's Guide to the Different Viruses and Vaccines
[The Conversation Africa] On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the detection of the virus a national public health emergency after three cases were confirmed. The Conversation Africa's Wale Fatade spoke to virologist Oyewale Tomori, who maps out the terrain of polio viruses, and their mutations, as well as what's happening on the vacci (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 30, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
We must continue to guard against the anti-vaccine movement | Letters
Bernard Bedford, Dr Andrew HillandAndrew Scaife respond to an article by Devi Sridhar on the dangers of vaccine scepticism, especially with regard to childrenI wholeheartedly agree with Devi Sridhar ’s concern about dwindling childhood protection from infectious diseases (In a sceptical era, understand this: vaccines do work - and our children need them, 27 March). Coming from a small hamlet near Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, I developed measles, mumps, then whooping cough in rapid succession on starting primary school. I spent most of my first four months off school. I was fortunate to join a long queue and receive my firs...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science Society Health Health policy Source Type: news
