What Is Polio? London Kids To Get Vaccine Against Rare Disease
Children will be offered a top-up shot against polio, an extremely rare virus that ’s been found in trace amounts in the city’s sewers. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 25, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katherine Hignett, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news
Polio vaccine catch-up campaign for London as sewage surveillance findings suggest reduced transmission
No further vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) isolates detected since Nov 2022. Vaccination rates in London lower than rest of country (87.6% vs 92.1% England). NHS London will soon be delivering catch-up campaign for unvaccinated/partially vaccinated children age 1-11 yrs (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten 2021-2022 Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten 2021-2022
During the 2021-22 school year, coverage with MMR, DTaP, polio, and varicella vaccines among kindergarten children fell slightly from the pre-pandemic years, according to this CDC report.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
News at a glance: Modernizing bed nets, IDing a Solar System visitor, and health lessons from Beethoven ’s hair
PUBLIC HEALTH
Next-gen bed nets get go-ahead
A new type of malaria-fighting bed net
received a major endorsement
from the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The net combines two chemicals to more effectively kill the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite behind malaria, a disease that killed an estimated 619,000 people in 2022, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Insecticide-treated bed nets have helped drive malaria rates down dramatically. But in recent years, resistance to the insecticide used to treat nets, pyrethroid, has been spreading. That has contributed to ...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 23, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Polio vaccine catch-up push to launch in London
London primary-school pupils not fully vaccinated against polio are to be offered catch-up jabs after Easter. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sudan: Polio - '43 Percent of North Darfur Children Immunised'
[Dabanga] El Fasher -- Some 43 per cent of targeted children in North Darfur have been covered by the second day of a state-wide immunisation campaign against polio and vitamin A deficiency on Sunday, authorities say, which they hail as 'encouraging'. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 22, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Detected in Burundi, Congo Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Detected in Burundi, Congo
Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization and Global Polio Eradication Initiative said.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Burundi: Burundi Announces First Polio Outbreak in More Than 30 Years
[UN News] Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said that they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation's first outbreak in more than 30 years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Country Announces First Polio Outbreak in More Than 30 Years
[UN News] Health authorities in Burundi on Friday said that they had detected eight samples of polio, officially declaring the landlocked African nation's first outbreak in more than 30 years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 18, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Outbreak of Polio Linked to Newer Oral Vaccine Detected in Africa
(MedPage Today) -- For the first time, cases of paralytic polio have been linked to the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), with multiple cases detected in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Global Polio Eradication Initiative... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Family Tree review – study of the mother of modern medicine falls between poetry and play
Belgrade theatre, CoventryMojisola Adebayo ’s play connects Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used in decades of vital scientific research, with the Black Lives Matter movement‘I am a farm,” says Henrietta Lacks in Mojisola Adebayo’s play about one of medical history’s most inconvenient truths. It is a twin statement of astonishment and outrage. Astonishment because the cells removed from Henrietta’s cancerous body in the early 1950s went on to be used in everyt hing from chemotherapy to IVF, from a treatment for polio to the fight against Covid. Outrage because those cells were taken without her knowledge, let...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Mark Fisher Tags: Theatre Stage Science Cancer research Culture Medical research Source Type: news
Is Our Polio Vaccine Strategy Mistaken? Is Our Polio Vaccine Strategy Mistaken?
The focus must switch from eradication of the polioviruses to the development of new long-term immunization policies that will minimize the silent circulation of polioviruses, researchers say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - March 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
New York issues polio warning for travelers to Israel amid outbreak
The state department of health said that anyone planning to visit the nation this spring should ensure they have got their polio vaccines. Israel has detected four cases in children in recent weeks. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages
Benson Musyoka rides his motorcycle from Kamboo health centre to transport vaccines to Yindalani village. Photo Joyce Chimbi/IPSBy Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Mar 13 2023 (IPS) Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a hard-to-reach population scattered across three remote, far-flung villages.
“Kamboo, Yindalani and Yiuma Mavui villages are located 17 and 28 kilometres away from Makindu sub-county hospital, and 10 and 22 kilometres away from the nearest electricity grid,” Benson Musyoka, the nu...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 13, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Africa COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Source Type: news
Africa: High-Level Emergency Ministerial Meeting On Cholera Epidemics, Polio and Climate-Related Public Health Emergencies
[Africa CDC] Lilongwe -- The Ministers of Health and Ministers of Water and Sanitation, as well as their senior technical experts from 12 African Union Member States, attended the High-Level Emergency Ministerial meeting on Cholera Epidemics and Climate-Related Public Health Emergencies in Lilongwe, Malawi from 9th - 10th March 2023. The Ministers agreed on joint collaborative measures to combat the spread of cholera and ensure country preparedness and readiness for climate-change-related health emergencies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - March 13, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
