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MMR Vaccines on Its Way to Regain Past Glory

...nt of vaccinations against diphtheria, tetanus and polio is status quo, at 94%, since five years. Immunizat...ildren receive three doses of diphtheria, tetanus, polio and pertussis during the first year of life. Atleast 95% should be vaccinated with the first dose of...

New polio cases detected in Bihar

The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar with the detection of ne...divisions were not covered under the drive.Two new polio cases were detected in Jehanand, while one each came up in Arwal and Nawada districts. Patna distric...

Williams Syndrome, the Brain, and Music

...enerations of researchers. Jonas Salk, M.D., whose polio vaccine all but eradicated the crippling disease poliomyelitis in 1955, opened the Institute in 1965 with a gift of land from the City of San Diego and the financial support of the March of Dimes. Source-Newswise SRM...

Genetics to bring about Medical Breakthroughs

...t comprises the technological innovations from the polio vaccine to treatments for bipolar disorder, the development of microsurgery and the discovery of DNA. The five predictions are:· New body parts for those with diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.· Drugs to tar...

A slum in Mumbai – breeding ground for disease

...tate and civic health departments//. Two confirmed polio cases have been reported in 2 weeks from this area. The water source and drains in this area are contaminated with dengue transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and malarial parasites. According to the BMC health department statistics, dengue has ta...

WHO Makes No Bones about Global Polio Eradication

...ted// its abiding vision of seeing a world free of polio in a span of one to two years. The vision which ...The present deadline of 2006 does seem bleak, with polio cases prevailing in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. WHO’s technical advisory panel has sai...

Polio Back in Kenya: WHO

...n found in Somalia, which had reported outbreak of polio cases in 2005, according to the Cuban news agency ...person Fadela Chaib said the successful control of polio worldwide would depend on eradicating it in endemic nations like Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pak...

Virus Infections Could Affect Cognitive Impairment in Latter Adulthood

...a variety of sickness, right from// common cold to polio could also hamper cognitive abilities later in lif...ause a variety of brain injuries. For example, the polio virus can cause paralysis. It can injure the spinal cord and different parts of the brain responsibl...

Polio afflicts a girl despite vaccination

A 1-year-old girl has been diagnosed with polio in spite of receiving 9 doses of the polio vaccine. According to an official statement, polio can be prevented by 4-10 doses of the vaccine//. ...

Polio Strikes Again in Delhi

Delhi is seeing a sudden spurt in the number of polio cases among children there in spite of most of them already having received polio drops.// Delhi was free from polio cases for 21 months. Then came the case of eight month old Same...

Madhya Pradesh battles polio with yet another drive

...or yet another anti-polio drive Sunday even as new polio cases - three in a span of six months// - have been detected. During the drive, pulse polio drops would be administered to nearly 10 million children of up to five years of age, according to h...

Solar vaccine cooler invented by Indian Scientist

The faulty storage of polio vaccines may have been responsible for the resurgence of polio in parts of India. However this situation will soon be resolved// because of the invention of an Ind...

Delhi children to receive anti-polio drops Sunday

...sation// campaign in Delhi which has reported five polio cases this year. Ahead of the campaign, Delhi Ch...day to look for jobs could also be responsible for polio cases in the national capital. "In view of low nutrition level of children in our country, repetit...

Misled Public Stay Away from Polio Immunisation Drive

...y grappling with the oft-impressed canard that the polio vaccine leads to impotency, Uttar Pradesh health o...rguably accounts for the world's highest number of polio cases. The report was carried in a lesser-known Urdu daily Aag Oct 11 but what appeared to have re...

Polio can be eradicated in India: Health Experts

...the health officials in India, almost one-third of polio cases reported globally happen to be from India. ... the experts in UK, the rising numbers of cases of polio in India are due to improper sanitation and congestion of living space. These obstacles make it cont...

WHO Attributes Death of Millions in Africa to Treatable diseases

...42 countries most affected by malaria. In addition polio has been almost completely eradicated and measles deaths have declined more than 50 percent since 1999. NLA...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

To most Americans, polio is a disease from the past, a successful health ca... on November 9, vowed last week: "We will complete polio eradication.” “This initiative is as ambitious as us putting a man on the moon in 1969,” the autho...

Oral Polio Vaccine Necessary for Haj Pilgrims

...ate Governments have also been requested to set up polio vaccination booths at the offices of the State Haj Committee as well as the airports from where the flights for Saudi Arabia leave. This arrangement would ensure that the pilgrims who are unaware of the decision are administered OPV before departure ...

NIDs Targets Immunizations To 22 Million Children In Bangladesh

...tion Initiatives and now in an effort to eliminate polio re-emergence, 14th National //Immunization Days (N...se Control and Prevention (CDC). Since March, four polio NIDs have been held and so far around 97 percent of children under age five were been immunized. W...

Increase in Polio Cases

There was decline in number of polio cases from 225 in 2003 to 66 in 2005. However there is a spurt of polio cases in western Uttar Pradesh in 2006, which has further spread not// only to other parts of Uttar ...

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