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Samoa’s measles epidemic is part of a global, unprecedented resurgence of cases

Imagine a disease outbreak so severe that if you’re not vaccinated, you flag your home with a red cloth outside your door — so vaccinators can find you. That is what is happening in Samoa, a Pacific Ocean island...

13 December, 2019

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Measles killing more people than Ebola in Congo, Doctors Without Borders says

Measles has killed 2,758 people in Congo since January, more than the Ebola epidemic in a year, medical NGO Doctors Without Borders said, and called for a “massive mobilization of funds.” The disease, preventable with a...

19 August, 2019

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Vaccinations create ‘umbrella of immunity’ against global measles outbreaks, says UNICEF

According to UNICEF, widening pockets of unvaccinated children have created a pathway to the measles outbreaks currently spreading around the world. “The ground for the global measles outbreaks we are witnessing today...

25 April, 2019

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Deadly measles discovery stuns scientists

The virus stays dormant in the brain for years until it awakens causing seizures and coma with no survivors. Scientists have discovered a deadly complication with the measles virus that could potentially kill children...

1 November, 2016

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Turns out the measles vaccine is even more important than we thought

The effectiveness of the measles vaccine has been well established, but now researchers have discovered that the vaccine may offer protective effects far beyond what we thought. Measles of course is well known as a...

15 June, 2015

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Rubella virus officially eliminated from the Americas

The disease joins the ranks of polio and smallpox It’s official: rubella, a disease that can be deadly for fetuses, has been eliminated from the Americas. The news was announced today by a scientific panel...

4 May, 2015

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Vaccination must be scaled up in Ebola-affected countries

A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World...

12 April, 2015

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The measles outbreak is twice as big as you thought

The number of U.S. measles cases has continued climbing toward 200, with 173 cases noted in the CDC’s most recent report March 6 — but that’s only half the story. If you add in the cases multiplying north of the border...

16 March, 2015

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Chikungunya vaccine using measles virus promising

A vaccine against chikungunya that is based on a measles vaccine virus has shown encouraging results in its first human trial. There is currently no approved vaccine against chikungunya. The candidate vaccine reported...

11 March, 2015

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7 facts about vaccines that show why they’re one of the most important inventions in human history

There’s a disease spreading right now, a disease that until recently, we’d considered eliminated — something that wasn’t spreading anymore except in places where it was imported from outside the country. But as the...

3 March, 2015

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