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Compass: Immunization is vital for children, community

In recent years, Alaska’s immunization coverage rates for infants age 19-35 months have been among the lowest in the nation. In 2009 Alaska ranked 49th out of 50 states; in 2010 we bumped up slightly to 42nd; and...

6 May, 2013

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UN steps up vaccination campaigns amid measles outbreaks among uprooted Syrians

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners have stepped up vaccination campaigns in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey amid measles outbreaks in a region already struggling to provide humanitarian...

6 May, 2013

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Groundbreaking new vaccine will save lives in Somalia

A new vaccine launched in Somalia is one-jab armour against five preventable diseases. At the Medina Mother and Child Health Centre in Mogadishu, 6-month-old Abdul Wahab sleeps peacefully in his mother’s arms...

6 May, 2013

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Latest HIV vaccine doesn’t work; govt halts study

The latest bad news in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine: The government halted a large U.S. study on Thursday, saying the experimental shots aren’t preventing HIV infection. Nor did the shots reduce the amount of the...

26 April, 2013

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MMR boycott has left two million children at risk of measles

Two million children risk catching measles as a result of the MMR scare, doctors warned yesterday. They said the outbreak in Wales could spread to London, where nearly half of the capital’s children are not vaccinated...

26 April, 2013

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New vaccine protects Haitian children from five diseases

Haiti has recently introduced the pentavalent vaccine, a combination vaccine designed to protect children from five dangerous diseases. Jean-Pierre knows that vaccinating his daughter, Isabel, is one of the best gifts...

22 April, 2013

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The promise of vaccines for preventing and eradicating disease

During the last three decades, the biopharmaceutical industry has invested significantly in new and improved vaccines. The results have provided remarkable new ways to prevent cases of cervical cancer, meningitis...

19 April, 2013

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Experts unclear how China bird flu infects humans

Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the...

19 April, 2013

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Indian children discovered to have natural AIDS resistance. Now what?

On May 31, 1987, as panic about AIDS spread, a reporter for the New York Times spent a month investigating the transmission of the global epidemic. “In the kingdom of AIDS,” he wrote, “a penis itself, often likened to a...

19 April, 2013

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Government rejects measles outbreak ‘blame’

Claims the outbreak of measles in south Wales was down to Department of Health policy in the 1990s is “completely incorrect”, the government has said. Vaccination rates fell after Dr Andrew Wakefield’s...

16 April, 2013

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