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Why polio is so hard to eliminate – Chad

Poor-quality emergency immunization campaigns and low routine polio immunization coverage are helping the polio virus to spread in Chad,

1 February, 2012

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African vaccine could help end malaria

Dividing her days between treating malaria in Kenya’s coastal regions and administering the latest malaria vaccine prototype, Dr. Patricia Njuguna has high hopes for preventing a disease that annually claims more...

18 January, 2012

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Pneumococcal vaccine soon free for Pakistani children

Some 80,000 to 100,000 children die every year in Pakistan due to pneumonia, a disease that can be prevented if children under the age of two are vaccinated against it, reported the Pakistan Pediatric Association (PPA).

16 December, 2011

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Malaria deaths drop but future still uncertain

Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000, and by 33% in the WHO African Region, according to the World Malaria Report 2011, issued by the World Health Organization.

14 December, 2011

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134 million Indian children to receive measles vaccination

The Government of India recently launched the second dose of measles vaccination targeting 134 million children

30 November, 2011

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UN seeks urgent funds for ongoing Congo cholera outbreak

The United Nations humanitarian arm warned today that $5.5 million is urgently needed from donors to combat an outbreak of cholera that has infected more than 17,000 people in the Congo.

23 November, 2011

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Computational modeling can help plan vaccine introduction

Proper planning before the introduction of new vaccines into a developing country’s active immunization program could prevent storage problems and transportation bottlenecks

21 November, 2011

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Confirmed international spread of wild poliovirus from Pakistan

Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) genetically linked to virus currently circulating in Pakistan has been isolated in China.

23 September, 2011

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China reports four imported polio cases

Four infants in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been diagnosed with polio

31 August, 2011

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Somalia: Cholera hits crowded Mogadishu camps

Fears are mounting that a cholera epidemic could spread rapidly among the hundreds of thousands of people

25 August, 2011

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