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Safety of Cancer Therapeutic Viruses Enhanced

...t cancer. They did this by engineering a modified measles virus that turns on only in the presence of secret...atments for humans. "Our work shows that oncolytic measles virus particle activation can be made dependent on substances secreted by cancer cells, and this enh...

Measles: No Measly Threat!

...ays a recent report.// Researchers recalled the measles outbreak in 2005 in Indiana, which had spread afte...e. From a worldwide perspective, eradication of measles still has a long way to go, according to Kim Mulholland, a professor of infectious-disease epidemiol...

Researchers Enhance Safety and Effectiveness of Therapeutic Virus that Fights Cancer

...f viruses. They did this by engineering a modified measles virus that turns on only in the presence of secret...atments for humans. “Our work shows that oncolytic measles virus particle activation can be made dependent on substances secreted by cancer cells, and this enh...

Britain's Support for India's Health Programme

...en were properly immunised against killers such as measles and tetanus." Of the estimated 530,000 mothers who die each year while giving birth, one in five are in India. Similarly, of over 10 million children who die before the age of five every year, one in four of these deaths occur in India, with 1.2 mi...

Viruses Can Cross Species Barrier

...ke SFV to infect humans, or for human viruses like measles to jump to monkeys. Either population can be at risk from these transmissions: measles can devastate monkey populations, while some monkey viruses can also harm people. Though SFV and a ...

Clinical Trial For Cancer Vaccine

...ign and kill them off. "Unlike vaccinations for measles or mumps, patients having this treatment would need to have injections every one or two months because once the effect starts to diminish, you need to do it again. But we are hopeful that it can help people who may already have undergone surgery but ...

Child death reduction needs five times more funds

...om AIDS, malaria and measles. However, giving Hib, measles and pneumococcal vaccines along with sufficient nutrition for the children can prevent pneumonia. Heath workers should be trained to recognize it and treatment is possible with antibiotics. According to another paper in the Lancet series, insectici...

New Vaccines Available For Children and Adolescents

...rganisms that cause these diseases, such as mumps, measles and pertussis (whooping cough), have not gone away. If we are not vigilant in continuing our aggressive immunization campaign, these diseases are going to come back.' Source-Newswise...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

...ekly market. When Dasma Hembram, three, died of measles in June, it raised the hackles of a social worker in the district. With the local media's aid, he publicised the deaths of 13 children here between June and October. An independent working group on protected areas, formed with NGO members and activ...

WHO Attributes Death of Millions in Africa to Treatable diseases

...on polio has been almost completely eradicated and measles deaths have declined more than 50 percent since 1999. NLA...

Vaccines — Good for Adults to

...eradicating diseases such as diphtheria, polio and measles in the United States — sometimes still get a bad rap.// Some people believe that they aren’t effective or may cause dangerous side effects. Some say they are no longer needed because most vaccine-preventable diseases are no longer a major threat. S...

Missed Vaccination Caused Largest Measles Outbreak in U.S in 2005

A total of 66 cases of measles were reported from across the U.S of which 34 were...incident resulted in skyrocketing the incidence of measles to almost double of the previous year. Year 2004 had only 37 recorded cases. The number of cases tha...

Significant Drop of Measles Cases Across the World

A considerable decrease in measles cases have been reported worldwide due to vaccinat... General Assembly aimed to bring down death due to measles by 50%. But a sixty percent success has already been achieved towards realizing this goal. Western...

Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children Surpassed

...ess. This exceeds the United Nations goal to halve measles deaths between 1999 and 2005 // and is largely due to an unprecedented decline in measles deaths in the African region. The progress was announced today by partners in the Measles Initiative...

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

...hreatening mankind.// Dr. Chan cites the case of measles to point out that with enough effort and political...reports released last week depict that deaths from measles have been reduced by 60 percent globally and in Africa by 75 percent in the past five years. Dr. C...

UN Sends Medicine to Afghanistan

... increase polio immunizations and vaccines against measles and tetanus. The UNICEF project also aims to build 246 new schools, develop textbooks for students in grades 7 to 9, train 11,500 newly-recruited female teachers, start literacy courses for 215,000 men and women, and de-worm almost 6 million child...

Measles Strikes North Korea

... have requested for 5 million doses of vaccine for measles from World Health Organization. North Korea has always been affected by this disease despite the presence of safe and effective vaccine. According to the statistics, there are approximately 3,45,000 deaths reported since 2005, the majority of them ...

Vaccines Effective in Preterm Babies too

... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The measles virus causes a rash, cough, runny nose, eye irritation and fever, but it can also lead to ear infections, pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and rarely, death. The mumps virus causes fever, headache and swollen glands, but it may also cause deafness,...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...ries. The company claims to be the world's largest measles vaccine maker. The report also accounted that foreign competitors, who have sometimes tried to undercut Indian makers' prices with products such as insulin produced by Biocon, have found that Indian companies can price their items even lower. At...

MMR Immunization Drive Begins in Iraq

...t protecting millions of children from a potential measles outbreak. According to health experts, nearly 10% ... Iraq has been focused on its plan of eliminating measles from the nation. The former immunization campaigns were successful in reducing the incidence of meas...

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