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Polio vaccination programs not reaching enough children in Afghanistan and Pakistan

New, more effective vaccines are struggling to have an impact in the drive to eradicate polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan because not enough children are being vaccinated, according to a study published in the Lancet...

5 July, 2012

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Found – human antibody that kills the dengue virus

A team of research scientists in Singapore have uncovered a human antibody that can neutralize and kill the dengue virus within two hours. A way to reproduce this antibody in large quantities has also been identified...

2 July, 2012

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Decade of vaccines

In 1736, Benjamin Franklin stressed the importance of fire prevention when he said that “an ounce of prevention is better than cure.” Franklin would have not realized that his advice would go beyond fire...

29 June, 2012

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The WHO dealmakers: Sending vaccine technology to the third world

Empowering countries to make their own vaccines may sound like a herculean task, but it is all in a day’s work for the Technology Transfer Initiative team at the World Health Organization. Many of us may recall our...

28 June, 2012

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GAVI to provide additional fund of US$ 162 mn to control measles outbreaks

To control and prevent measles outbreaks in developing countries, the GAVI Alliance will provide up to an additional US$ 162 million. This funding will help countries to bridge critical gaps in their efforts to build...

15 June, 2012

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World dengue vaccine could be ready by 2015

One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue – the intensely painful “breakbone fever” which the conflict helped spread around the world – may be in...

8 June, 2012

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WHO adopts global vaccine action plan

A global vaccine action plan, developed to help save millions of lives over the next decade, was adopted last month (26 May) by 194 countries at the World Health Assembly (the decision-making body of the WHO) in Geneva...

8 June, 2012

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More evidence, better diagnostics needed before redefining severe forms of drug-resistant TB

Reports of tuberculosis (TB) cases with severe patterns of drug resistance are increasing, said experts who attended a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva March 21-22, 2012. Participants stressed that the...

1 June, 2012

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Polio’s last stand

A hard-fought battle against the polio virus may be approaching its endgame. Last week, health officials laid out plans to eradicate the virus from its last redoubts, but warned that the effort may founder owing to a...

29 May, 2012

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How polio can be a global emergency when cases are at an all-time low

On Friday, the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, voted that polio represents a global emergency at the very point at which cases of the deadly, paralysis-causing virus are at an...

28 May, 2012

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