The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received a delisting certificate from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to indicate the removal of Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries. Receiving the certificate from the Director-General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan in Abuja, the President said that in the past 14 months Nigeria …
Khartoum — The Unicef representative in Sudan warned that polio may break out in the country's conflict-affected regions. Speaking on the occasion of the World Polio Day on Friday, Unicef representative Geert Cappelaere said that 99.9 percent of the work to eradicate polio worldwide is done, but a significant part …
HAVANA, Cuba (Xinhua) -- A new Cuban vaccine for hepatitis B is undergoing clinical trials in seven Asian countries apart from Cuba, the Contemporanea newspaper reported Thursday. The seven countries are Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, China, The Philippines and Thailand, said Iris Lugo, a specialist from the Center …
Judgement of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Jacob Puliyel Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/10/2015. This petition, by way of Public Interest Litigation, is filed seeking a direction to the respondents to provide complete data of the results of the Multi Centre Clinical Trial …
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh high court on Wednesday ordered state government to vaccinate pigs against swine influenza viruses and control its spread to humans besides ensuring storage of ample medicines at hospitals to control it. The double bench at Gwalior has also asked government steps taken by them to control swine …
Polio eradication needs a new routine immunisation schedule—three or four doses of bivalent type 1 and type 3 oral poliovirus vaccine (bOPV) and one dose of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), but no immunogenicity data are available for this schedule. The researchers aimed to assess immunogenicity of this vaccine schedule.
More than 23,000 people, mostly children, have been infected with measles in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 400 have died, according to United Nations agencies and Doctors Without Borders. In one village of 500, more than 30 children under age 5 died within two …
Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent infection. Influenza vaccines propagated in cultured cells are approved for use in humans, but their yields are often suboptimal. Here, we screened A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) virus mutant libraries to develop vaccine backbones (defined here as the six viral RNA segments …
The RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine targets the circumsporozoite protein, inducing antibodies associated with the prevention of Plasmodium falciparum infection. We assessed the association between anti-circumsporozoite antibody titres and the magnitude and duration of vaccine efficacy using data from a phase 3 trial done between 2009 and 2014. Using data from 8922 …
Ibanda — The Ibanda District health officer, has confirmed a measles out-break in the district Addressing journalists in Ibanda last Thursday, Dr Julius Bamwine said "many cases" have been reported in Ishongorero, Nyabuhikye, Kashangura, Bisheeshe and Nsasi sub-counties. He said the disease is also in Ibanda Town Council in Bufunda, …
The Men B vaccine will be given to babies at two, four and 12 months old as part of routine immunisations. Infants under one-year-old are at the most risk of Men B infections, which can cause severe brain damage and is fatal in one in 10 cases. Campaigners said the …
KOLHAPUR: After five people succumbed to swine flu in Kolhapur district this month, the district administration has accelerated its awareness drive in all 12 tehsils and is also pursuing the state officials for providing more vaccines as well as conducting training sessions of health staffers, who are exposed to H1N1 …
A new anti-malaria vaccine called Mosquirix was recently approved by the European drugs regulators. Projected as the solution to malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3,000 children everyday worldwide and over 300,000 Nigerians every year, it is already being recommended as safe and effective …
In 2013, a stockpile of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was created for use in outbreak response, but vaccine availability remains severely limited. Innovative strategies are needed to maximize the health impact and minimize the logistical barriers to using available vaccine. Here we ask under what conditions the use of one …
Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals. Two separate US teams have found success with an approach that homes in on a stable part of the flu virus. That should remove the problem with …
MIAMI – An experimental vaccine against the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, has shown promise when tested on lab monkeys, researchers said Wednesday. There are no approved vaccines against MERS, which is believed to originate in camels and began to sicken people in 2012, killing hundreds since then. …
The news that a promising vaccine has been tested against Ebola is very welcome. But, as we in Nepal know only too well, the development of a vaccine is no guarantee that it will be used. Back in 1987, a successful trial of a typhoid vaccine here in Kathmandu gave …
Anti-vaxxers in Australia will no longer be able to send their children to childcare or kindergarten under proposed reform by the government of Victoria. The state is to introduce new legislation that says only fully vaccinated children can attend such care groups, as well as closing a loophole that exempts …
Brazil announced on Thursday that the vaccination against dengue developed by the country will be available by 2018 when all the tests are finished. "We are currently hoping for a safe vaccine against dengue to be developed fully ... At best we will have the vaccine in 2018," said Brazil's …
HAVANA, Cuba (CMC) — The new Cuban vaccine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B is currently undergoing clinical trials in Cuba and eight Asian countries, with the cooperation of the French company Abivax. Researchers say the new product -- HeberNasvac -- developed by researchers of the Centre for Genetic …
