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The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...n and highly contagious diseases -- such as polio, measles and cholera -- that once routinely ravaged vast swaths of humanity. Ironically, there has long been a disturbing tendency to romanticize the white plague, as tuberculosis is also known. But in real life, tuberculosis is a messy, agonizing and deb...

US Court Asked to Decide Whether Childhood Vaccines can Cause Autism

...ne system and prevented her body from clearing the measles virus after she was immunized for the disease at age 15 months. Today, Michelle suffers from a long list of health problems, including severe autism, inflammatory bowel disease, glaucoma and epilepsy. The 12-year-old girls parents demand payment ...

Flush Water Pipes to Reduce Lead Contamination Risk, Schools Told

...tive efforts on a vast scale. In Canada after the measles outbreak, it is the risk of lead contamination that is engaging the attention of the Ontario province authorities. They have now ordered most schools in the region to flush their water pipes daily. Provocation? Water samples in many communities sh...

Measles Outbreak in Canada, Officials Urge Vaccination

...ase in Canada, but thought to have been conquered, measles has resurfaced in the Montreal area again. The pu...rding to federal officials. The risk of death from measles is one in 3,000. Measles was rampant in Canada till the vaccine was found in the 1970s. It was ...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

... longer suffer from diphtheria, rubella, polio, or measles and they have the lowest AIDS rate in the Americas, and the highest rate of treatment and control of hypertension. For health issues beyond the capacity of the neighborhood doctor, polyclinics provide specialists, outpatient operations, physical th...

TB and Measles Scare in Canada Now

...say a teenage Japanese student suspected of having measles remains in isolation in Vancouver, while 38 others...nd reduce transmission, Dr.Tam said. "In Canada, measles is virtually eliminated, as it is in the Western Hemisphere, and if that is the case then one case o...

Small Pox Scare Put West Bengal on High Alert

...nistry Thursday about the outbreak of smallpox and measles along the borders of Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport authorities have also been informed about the danger and asked to screen the passengers arriving from Bangladesh and Myanmar. State health ...

Pakistan to Launch World's Biggest Anti-measles Drive

...day they will immunise 63 million children against measles in the biggest such campaign in history. The vi...seminaries known as madrassas to give children the measles jabs, while government-run clinics will be also be used as vaccination centres. Medics will make s...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

... of Kano when there was an epidemic of meningitis, measles and cholera. Nigeria filed a lawsuit June 4 against Pfizer for allegedly administering a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital in the heart of the epidemic in Kano. A similar su...

Nigerian Village Quarantined After 20 Children Die of Measles

... health officials on Wednesday said an outbreak of measles in a village in the northern state of Borno had killed 20 children and caused a further 100 children to be hospitalised. "The epidemic has killed 20 children and over 100 children are in two hospitals at Maiduguri, the state capital, for treatment...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...ne system and prevented her body from clearing the measles virus after she was immunized for the disease at a... quickly shifted to the theory that the attenuated measles virus had created a persistent infection in her gut, causing a severe inflammation that resulted in ...

Memory T Cells Protect the Body from Viruses

...accines were developed, childhood diseases such as measles and mumps occurred only once in a lifetime. The immunity occurs when the immune system produces cells called lymphocytes that specifically attack and eliminate the virus at the time of infection. After the infection subsides, most of the lymphocyte...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...a field hospital during an epidemic of meningitis, measles and cholera. The company last week said it had received the go-ahead from Nigerian authorities before administering the drug. A lawyer for Pfizer, Afe Babalola, said the withdrawal of the earlier suit reflected the weakness of the government's ca...

Pfizer Says Nigeria Gave Approval for 1996 Drug Test

...a field hospital during an epidemic of meningitis, measles and cholera. Of the 200 children affected, 11 died while many more -- reportedly 181 -- suffered from deafness, paralysis, brain damage and blindness, according to the allegations. Pfizer denies the charges. Edozien said Pfizer carried out the te...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...ital during an epidemic in the city of meningitis, measles and cholera. Of the 200 children affected, 11 died while many more -- reportedly 181 -- suffered from deafness, paralysis, brain damage and blindness, according to the allegations. Pfizer denies the charges. The Nigerian federal government filed ...

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