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Vaccines — Good for Adults to

...ited with 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 maj...

Polio Outbreak on Wane: Next Rounds Must Focus on Youngest Children

With this year’s polio outbreak on the wane and excellent coverage during recent pulse polio campaigns, the Independent Expert Advisory Group today advised// the government that the next few pu...

Muslim Clerics to Join Hands to Eradicate Polio

...ernational that has been closely involved with the polio eradication campaign. Some clerics have voluntee...king team of ulemas were constituted to review the polio vaccination drive in Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for 438 polio cases - the highest in the country....

Help of Minority Leaders Needed to Curb Polio: Ramadoss

...h leaders of religious minorities to help curb the polio outbreak in India.// According to him, a sense of "complacency" in the polio immunisation campaigns in Uttar Pradesh last year had led to the growth of the disease in the state ...

IMA Oppose Introduction of Polio Injections

...will oppose the government's plan to replace pulse polio immunisation drops with injections.// "The IMA wi...move to administer injections instead of drops for polio pulse immunisation," IMA's outgoing national president Sanjeev Malik told IANS here. Malik was her...

Battle Against Polio Far from Over in Bihar

Patna: The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar, which recorded 51 new cases in 2006.// "The situation is not good. New polio cases surfaced in the state even though millions were spent on a series of immunization drives," sai...

Fresh Polio Case Reported in Jammu

..., Jammu and Kashmir has reported its first case of polio after remaining free of the crippling disease for ...e 66 reported in 2005. "It was the first case of polio from Jammu and Kashmir. In the last week of December we detected the case in a five-year-old baby gi...

Migration is the Cause for Fresh Polio Cases in the Capital: Sheila Dikshit

New Delhi: Blaming the resurfacing of polio cases in the Indian capital to influx of affected ...me. "Delhi was on the threshold of eradication of polio but the occurrence of fresh cases, mostly due to migration of polio affected children from neighbour...

Billions of Dollars Saved in U.S. By Polio Vaccination

... Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that polio vaccination in the United States //has resulted in...trospectively demonstrate the enormous benefits of polio vaccination appears as part of a special issue on polio in the December 2006 issue of Risk Analysis....

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

...ld not be ignored. The WHO chief is unhappy that polio eradication is still unfinished and plans to summon an executive meeting next month. She also warns the governments not to let down guard on avian influenza and remain vigilant. PI...

UN Sends Medicine to Afghanistan

...children. It will also fund programmes to 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 an...

A Young Girl Loses Her Leg Due to Surgeon’s Carelessnes

...ned. The girl was a victim of an unusual case of polio affecting the hand, but the surgeons on Saturday o...who inquired into the incident, said. The girl had polio deformity on both her hand and leg although the problem with the leg was minor, he added. However,...

Leading Polio Activist Doctor in Pakistan Killed

...r refused to get their children vaccinated against polio and added that Ghani was visiting the area to alla...ut the vaccination. "The locals had also warned polio teams against visiting the area," Khan added.Paramedic Hazrat Jamal, who is one of the three injured...

Union Budget: Impact on Health Sector

...monitoring of the high-risk areas. The number of polio rounds are to be increased and monovalent vaccine is soon to be introduced. This anti-polio programme has been integrated with NRHM, with the ASHAs and the anganawadi workers expected to visit every household, to track each child for immunization ...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

...ncy and its partners have pledged to eradicate the polio in the last four endemic countries//. They have ta...ility to mobilize the resources needed to complete polio eradication, in particular by filling a funding gap of $575 million for 2007-2008, with $60 million ...

Nigerian Programme Increases Polio Immunisation

An initiative to increase polio vaccination in Nigeria has been a success, but con...ICEF and the World Health Organization — to tackle polio in the 18 northern regions still affected by the virus. People in these states have refused the va...

Delhi Kids to Be Immunized Against Polio

...l residence here. Delhi witnessed seven cases of polio in 2006, an increase from just one case in 2005. ...o be conducted under search and immunization pulse polio campaign. Around 17,000 workers in 8,600 teams would visit different colonies including slums to adm...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

Patna: The battle against polio is far from over in Bihar with seven new cases det... by 2007-end. 'It is sad to admit that seven new polio cases surfaced in the state till the first week of February, despite the immunisation drive,' offici...

Teens to Be Lined Up for Vaccination Shots

... only a booster jab to the diphtheria, tetanus and polio vaccine that they receive in childhood. Yet, a decision on whether female teenagers aged 11 and 12 should be immunized against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, is due. Research is also taking plac...

Present Teenagers Are Unhealthier Than Their Parents

...arents.// The infections of the earlier times like polio and tuberculosis have given way to venereal diseases, drinking, smoking, obesity, drug abuse etc. The only silver lining to this issue is that these conditions can be treated. Obesity in adolescents has increased fourfold between 1970 and 2000 wh...

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