Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century
...ver, problems with vaccine supply, cost and safety threaten to derail the vaccine successes of past decades, a...founded and unproven concerns about other vaccines threaten to lead to decreased vaccine coverage and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. Adul...UN pours polio vaccine into Yemen amid outbreak
...rces of the global eradication effort, they do not threaten its ultimate success," UNICEF said. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, formed by WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, needed $50 million by July and $200 million for 2006, it added. UNICEF s...Alien woodwasp, threat to US pine trees, found in N.Y.
...ica. If established in the United States, it would threaten pines coast-to-coast, particularly in the pine-dense states in the Southeast. One target would be loblolly pines in Georgia. Finding one bug in a trap is no small matter. Where there's one, there's likely to be more, says E. Richard Hoebeke, a Corne...Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition
...le fish and shrimp are of low commercial value and threaten future populations and catches. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, fishermen lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year because of the loss of juvenile fish and non-target fish to bycatch. This team developed a system of angled...