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Vaccine critics put children at risk

Arguments against the pentavalent vaccine in India are inaccurate and pose a grave threat to children’s health, says T. Jacob John. It is easy to scare parents about vaccines because nobody wants to put the life of...

11 October, 2013

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Vaccine refusal tied to pertussis outbreak

Refusal to vaccinate children against whooping cough might have played a role in the 2010 pertussis outbreak in California, researchers reported. Analysis of the outbreak — the largest in the state since 1947...

8 October, 2013

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New meningitis vaccine slashes cases by 94 per cent

A new vaccine being rolled out in the “meningitis belt” that stretches across north-central Africa has reduced cases of the potentially fatal disease by 94 per cent, doctors reported in The Lancet. Researchers monitored...

30 September, 2013

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Indian scientists break dengue code, develop non-infectious vaccine from yeast

Indian scientists have achieved an important breakthrough in their efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent the deadly dengue. Supported by the Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science & Technology...

23 September, 2013

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Scripps Research Institute study explores barriers to HIV vaccine response study explores barriers to HIV vaccine response

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the body’s own “self” proteins. This finding could complicate the development of HIV...

23 September, 2013

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Two million children for polio immunisation

About 2.1 million children below the age of five are to be immunised against polio in a new mass campaign in 36 ‘high risk’ districts. The ‘door-to-door’ immunisation campaign worth sh8.8b is funded by the Government...

18 September, 2013

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AIDS vaccine candidate completely clears virus from body in monkeys

Researchers are continuing to search for a HIV/AIDS vaccine that could potentially solve the AIDS epidemic. Now, they may be one step closer, Scientists have announced that they’ve developed a HIV/AIDS vaccine...

13 September, 2013

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Researchers proffer possible route to malaria vaccine

What do black widows, rattlesnakes and malaria-ridden mosquitos all have in common? For one, all of their bites can kill. And now, thanks to research from the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, there may be a second...

13 September, 2013

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HIV vaccine made from whole virus finishes promising Phase I trials

A Canadian researcher, Dr. C. Kang and his team at the University of Western Ontario, have produced an anti-HIV vaccine that is somewhat different from previous ones. The vaccine has just finished the FDA Phase I...

12 September, 2013

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Pilot program explores use of 2D barcodes in vaccine record-keeping

In an effort to help facilitate accurate and uniform records of US vaccine usage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and immunization community stakeholders are exploring the potential of 2-dimensional...

10 September, 2013

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