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. …
Failure Of Pvt Sector To Provide Cheaper Shots Forces Reversal Of Order Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Let down by the private sector, government has been forced to reverse its decision to close down public sector vaccine units. Less than a year after they were closed down, health ministry …
Ahmedabad : For the last two days, primary schoolchildren in remote villages in Barvala taluka, Ahmedabad district, have been getting free typhoid vaccination. This is to ensure that the illness does not disrupt their studies as it does each year. The vaccination drive by Ahmedabad Red Cross Society has been …
VELLORE: The oral polio vaccine (OPV) that is administered to children in the 0-5 age group during the annual pulse polio campaigns in the country is perfectly safe and does not cause immediate illness or death, according to T. Jacob John, Emeritus Professor of Virology of the Christian Medical College …
Prior to the 2004 Philippines Measles Follow up Elimination Campaign, measles caused an estimated 6000 deaths among Filipino children. After the campaign, cases and deaths decreased by 96.4% and 99.2%, respectively. The Nationwide Rapid Coverage Assessments, with an extensive system of feedback, was the prime factor in reaching the under-immunized …
Two children, including an infant, died after being administered vaccines in a Bihar village, health officials and parents said Tuesday.A 20-day-old boy died Monday, a day after he was administered DPT and BCG vaccines in Kamrauli village of Darbhanga district, about 200 km from here.
The promising results from trials of a malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline have kindled hopes of a breakthrough in combating this mosquito-transmitted disease that infects nearly 250 million people, killing about a million every year. The findings of the human tests of the experimental vaccine (named RTS,S), conducted in Kenya …
1.60 lakh children to be given the drops in Pudukottai NAGAPATTINAM: About 1.44 lakh children, below the age of five, in the district would be given polio drops during the Pulse Polio campaign to be held on December 21 and February 1. Collector M.Jayaraman, speaking at a coordination committee ahead …
A team of epidemiologists has reported that just one-fifth of the standard meningitis vaccine dose triggers an immune response almost as good as that of the full dose, offering a way to potentially stretch limited supplies.
Back in Aurangabad after nine years a fresh case of polio has come to light in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra after nine years. Four-year-old Arbaz Hasan Khan was diagnosed with the viral disease on October 4 in the foothill village of Vetalwadi in Soygaon tehsil. Arbaz got polio despite having …
Pakistan reports more polio cases: Pakistan reported four polio cases just two days after the much-publicized anti-polio campaign concluded on October 16. Three polio victims are from Punjab and one from the North West Frontier Province. These cases take the number of children incapacitated by the disease this year to …
Rajahmundry Nov. 13: The Centre has proposed to introduce injec-table trivalent polio vaccine in the immunisation schedule of children below one year, shortly. Unlike the present conventional practice of administering oral polio drops to children in the age group of zero to five years in the regular immunisation drive and …
To check recurring cases of polio in the country, health ministry is going to introduce an Injectible Polio Vaccine (IPV) in nine districts of UP and Bihar from where maximum cases have been reported. The ministry will introduce IPV in the two vulnerable states alongside the ongoing countrywide oral immunisation …
After failing to end recurring cases of polio in the country, 80 per cent of which have occurred in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh so far, the Centre has now decided to introduce injectable polio vaccine (IPV). The IPV will be introduced in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh initially and then …
Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat on Tuesday urged Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to permit the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor; the BCG Laboratory, Chennai, and the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, to resume production of vaccines to meet the shortage in DPT and …
MPA Pir Amjad Hussain Jilani has said that people are not getting their children vaccinated against tuberculosis due to unawareness about the disease, and stressed the need for holding seminars, workshops and conventions in the rural areas to make people health-conscious. Speaking at a convention for TB control jointly organised …
The resurfacing of the Polio 1 virus , which was largely believed to be on the verge of eradication in the country, in UP has set off alarm bells among health experts across the country. The virus re-entered the state through Bihar and has now established a firm hold in …
Four babies die in Maharashtra FOUR infants died after being administered measles vaccines in Waghola village of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, while another six were in critical condition. The vaccination campaign was organized by the state government at the village anganwadi on September 26. Soon after the health workers from the …
DH News Service, Bangalore: Even after 13 years of Polio immunisation programme as many as 486 cases have been reported this year alone in 87 districts. Recent outbreaks of polio cases in different parts of the country have cast doubts as to why children are getting infected by the virus …
