7 Infections Athletes Could Get From Rio's Contaminated Waters
By: Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer Published: 08/03/2016 06:02 PM EDT on LiveScience
The coastal waters around Rio de Janeiro, where many Olympic water competitions will soon take place, are reportedly teeming with harmful viruses and bacteria. So what illnesses might people catch if they swallow some of the water?
If the water has been contaminated with raw sewage, as has been reported, then a number of common pathogens could be lurking there and make people ill, experts say.
“There are many types of microbes in raw sewage that have the potential to cause human disease,” said Stephen Morse, a professor of epid...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 5, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Pentavalent rotavirus vaccine cost effective in France
(Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News)
Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - July 31, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Uganda Rolls Out Compulsory Immunization to Dispel Anti-Vaccine Myths
Women wait to immunize their children at the Kisugu Health Centre in Kampala, Uganda, where free vaccinations take place. The nurse in the foreground is Betty Makakeeto. Credit: Amy Fallon/IPSBy Amy FallonKAMPALA, Jun 29 2016 (IPS)Patience*, a Ugandan maid, planned on taking her three-year-old son for polio immunization during the country’s mass campaigns a year ago, until her landlord’s wife told her a shocking myth.“The medicine they are injecting them with means the boy when he’s an adult won’t be able to reproduce,” Patience, 32, recalled to IPS what she’d been informed. “She said: ‘Don’t even thin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Amy Fallon Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Population Poverty & SDGs Religion Women's Health immunisation Maternal and Child Health Uganda Vaccination Source Type: news
Niger: Vaccine Pioneers - Saving Children in Niger
[Al Jazeera] It's estimated that 450,000 children around the world die every year from rotavirus - a highly infectious disease that causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 16, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ontario’s infant rotavirus immunization program found effective
A publicly-funded rotavirus (RV) immunization program designed to prevent hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for RV-specific acute gastroenteritis (AGE) has shown remarkable... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - May 24, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Ontario’s infant rotavirus immunization program found effective
A publicly-funded rotavirus (RV) immunization program designed to prevent hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for RV-specific acute gastroenteritis (AGE) has shown remarkable... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - May 24, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Gaps in vaccine coverage highlighted with new report and online tool
(International Vaccine Access Center) As the 69th World Health Assembly discusses progress on the Global Vaccine Action Plan, a new data visualization platform, the Vaccine Information Epidemiology Window (VIEW-hub) from the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, identifies shortfalls in vaccine introduction and coverage. VIEW-hub uses real-time data updates to monitor introduction and implementation of PCV, Hib and rotavirus vaccines, enabling strategy development for accelerating progress on global and country levels. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 24, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Botswana: Rotavirus Common in Winter
[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -Diseases such as influenza and common colds strike most during winter. One other disease that hit hard during this period is Rotavirus.According to Dr Patson Mazonde, who is a medical practitioner, Rotavirus is one of the several viruses known to cause gastroenteritis or inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 19, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ontario rotavirus hospitalizations drop >70 percent after launch of infant vaccine program
(PLOS) Hospitalization for rotavirus infections decreased by > 70 percent following the introduction of a vaccine program in Ontario, Canada, according to a study published May 11, 2016, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sarah Wilson from Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada, and colleagues. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 12, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Ontario rotavirus hospitalizations drop 71 percent after launch of infant vaccine program
(Public Health Ontario) Immunizing babies against rotavirus in Ontario, Canada, led to a 71 percent drop in hospitalizations for the infection, new research from Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences has shown. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 11, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Dengue fever's economic 'bite' estimated by investigators
The global cost of dengue is an estimated US$8.9 billion annually, higher than several other major infectious diseases such as cholera, rotavirus gastroenteritis, canine rabies and Chagas, say investigators. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Dengue fever's economic 'bite' estimated in Lancet Infectious Disease article
(Brandeis University) A study by Brandeis University researchers finds that the global cost of dengue is an estimated US$8.9 billion annually, higher than several other major infectious diseases such as cholera, rotavirus gastroenteritis, canine rabies and Chagas. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 4, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Hilleman Laboratories begins clinical trials of rotavirus vaccine
Hilleman Labs received approvals to conduct phase I and II clinical trials for the two vaccines in recent weeks from Directorate General of Drug Administration. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - April 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Megacities worsen climate-prone diseases
Dhaka’s crowded centre raises the risk of rotavirus infection from monsoon floods, Bangladeshi study shows. (Source: SciDev.Net)
Source: SciDev.Net - March 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Rotavirus vaccine launched as part of Universal Immunization Programme
The government launched the vaccine for Rotavirus vaccine today as part of the country's Universal Immunization Programme to reduce child morbidity and mortality. (Source: The Economic Times)
Source: The Economic Times - March 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
