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Health officials in the U.S. territory of American Samoa say they will begin mass measles vaccinations later this week. At a meeting Sunday, officials said the vaccinations would be given for seven days starting Friday. There are nine confirmed cases of measles in the island territory. American Samoa Health Department Epidemiologist Dr. Aifili John Tufa says five of the island’s […]
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A new UNSW study has found that most adult Indigenous Australians are not receiving free flu and pneumococcal vaccinations. We need urgent action to reverse declining targeted flu and pneumococcal vaccination rates among adult Indigenous Australians, according to a new UNSW study. The study—published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health – found that adult Indigenous […]
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An electron micrograph of the measles virus. Credit: CDC/ Courtesy of Cynthia S. Goldsmith The UN health agency on Wednesday said it would carry out an emergency vaccination campaign in six DR Congo provinces to counter an outbreak of measles that has killed 3,600 since the start of the year. Authorities have registered more than 183,800 suspected cases of the […]
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Children who experience some type of adverse event following initial immunization have a low rate of recurrent reactions to subsequent vaccinations, reports a study in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, the official journal of The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases. “Most patients with a history of mild or moderate adverse events following immunization [AEFI] can be safely reimmunized,” write […]
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Brazil’s health ministry has launched a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect children from measles and poliomyelitis. The initiative follows a measles outbreak that affected over 700 people, only two years after the disease was eradicated in Latin America’s largest nation. Health officials also worry that polio may return to Brazil. The measles cases are mostly concentrated in northern states where […]
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(HealthDay)—Following quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV4) vaccination, girls age 12 to 17 years do not have increased risk of autoimmune disorders, according to a study published recently in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Erin Y. Liu, from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and colleagues conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study using Ontario’s administrative health and vaccination databases from […]
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(HealthDay)—No new or unexpected safety issues have been identified in association with diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccines in the United States, according to a study published online June 4 in Pediatrics. Pedro L. Moro, M.D., M.P.H., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues searched the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for U.S. reports of […]
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(HealthDay)—Providers engaging parents hesitant about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and addressing their concerns can lead to same-day vaccinations, according to a study published online May 15 in Pediatrics. Laura A. Shay, Ph.D., from the University of Texas in San Antonio, and colleagues audio-recorded 43 visits with unvaccinated adolescents at six pediatric clinics in which parents were undecided about HPV vaccination. […]
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Congo began an Ebola vaccination campaign Monday in a northwest provincial capital in a major effort to stem an outbreak that has already made its way from rural towns into a city of more than 1 million people. The campaign comes a day after the health ministry announced that a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern […]
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The World Health Organization and other global agencies have launched the first oral cholera vaccination campaign in Yemen, aiming to reach millions of people in the war-torn country. More than 2,200 people have died of the waterborne infection over the past year in Yemen, with another one million suspected cases across the country. The first phase of the oral campaign […]
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