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. …
Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh with epidemics occurring each year. The decision to use a cheap oral killed whole-cell cholera vaccine to control the disease depends on the feasibility and effectiveness of vaccination when delivered in a public health setting. We therefore assessed the feasibility and protective effect of delivering …
Guwahati: Health experts are unable to ascertain the reasons behind the abnormal rise of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) among adults in the state. This is in sharp contrast to the global trend of more and more children getting afflicted with the vector-borne disease. According to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), …
Use of oral vaccines is proving to be an effective tool to control outbreaks of cholera, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, adding that the deadly water-borne disease is a major public health concern from Tanzania to South Sudan, and Nepal to Yemen. The use of Oral Cholera Vaccines …
Preventable diseases like measles and mumps are occurring with increasing frequency in the U.S. despite the availability of an effective vaccine. Given concern that an outbreak may occur among military recruits, we compared serologic evidence of immunity to measles, mumps, and rubella among military recruits with known herd immunity thresholds …
The structure of another human antibody against the dengue virus has been determined, spurring the development of vaccines against the mosquito-borne disease that infects almost 400 million people a year. The dengue virus has four serotypes: DENV 1-4. Antibodies to two of the serotypes have been identified in recent studies. …
The success of an experimental vaccine trial with rhesus monkeys is motivating a pharmaceutical company to undertake experimental HIV vaccine tests in Thailand, East and South Africa, and the United States of America US, with 400 healthy participants taking part in the first phase of the trials. Scientists say the …
The vaccine, which will be injected at 14 weeks will provide the best protection against polio Immunisation: Bhutan introduced the injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in addition to the existing oral polio vaccine (OPV) into routine immunisation across the country on July 4. A dose of IPV has been introduced …
Health Minister launched the National Health Innovations Portal , which will be a repository of all innovations contributed by the states. The launch of this health portal today comes a day after the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the Digital India Week yesterday. It was launched bu J P …
Zimbabweans may soon be immunised against HIV transmission if trials for a vaccine to prevent the spread of the deadly virus expected to start in the near future are successful. The trial will also be carried out in Zambia and Malawi, as Southern Africa steps up efforts to fight HIV. …
Baitadi, the hilly district in the far west region, has been declared the first fully immunised district. Altogether 10 districts in the country have been declared fully vaccinated including Baitadi-- the first in the Mahakali zone. The plan to declare the fully immunized district was achieved after all the people …
The Balochistan government has decided to enact a law enabling security agencies to take action against parents and heads of educational institutions, including religious seminaries, who refuse to administer polio vaccinations to children. “We have proposed it. It is too early to talk about the contents of the law. All …
Accra — Despite protests from civil society, the Ghanaian Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) have given the nod for the commencement of Ebola vaccine trial in the country. The regulatory body in an official release signed by its chief executive, Hudu Mogtari communicated its decision to approve the trial of …
An epidemic of dengue fever in Brazil is under control but without the development of long-term solutions, businesses and society will suffer The 34-year old foreign and domestic sales manager of Frigo Estrela, a meat-packing company located in the countryside of São Paulo state, has just accepted a 1,000-tonne order …
An epidemic of meningitis has killed 545 people in Niger, out of 8,234 people who caught the disease, but has now peaked, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO had said that the epidemic was worrying and unprecedented because it was a strain not normally found in Africa …
Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has developed a groundbreaking, combination vaccine that may finally beat Streptococcus A infections. Human trials are set to begin, early as next year, for the vaccine which combines the protein, SpyCEP, with a previously developed vaccine J8-DT. Infections caused by Streptococcus pyogenes are responsible for …
Though measles is a vaccine preventable disease, outbreaks still continue to occur because of poor immunization coverage rate at the national level. The objective of the study was to report the survey results of an outbreak of measles in Puraini village of Madhepura district in Bihar, India. Original Source
The rise in dengue fever cases and the absence of dengue vaccines will likely cause governments to consider various types of effective means for controlling the disease. Given strong public interests in potential dengue vaccines, it is essential to understand the private economic benefits of dengue vaccines for accelerated introduction …
As a devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues, non-pharmaceutical control measures including contact tracing, quarantine, and case isolation are being implemented. In addition, public health agencies are scaling up efforts to test and deploy candidate vaccines. Given the experimental nature and limited initial supplies of vaccines, a mass vaccination …
Abuja — Nigeria is one of eight African countries where clinical trials of a vaccine for the Ebola virus disease will soon commence. The others are Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cameroun, Ghana, Mali and Senegal. Nigeria's Minister of State for Health, Fidelis Nwankwo, who disclosed this when he addressed the …
To save the children from the scourge of killer encephalitis the state government has decided to start a massive vaccination programme in which children up to 15 years of age would be vaccinated with ante-encephalitis vaccines. “This year we want to minimize the loss of precious lives due to encephalitis …
