This annual report of WHO’s work between July 2019 and June 2020, was finalized four months after the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in the WHO African Region. Over the past year, WHO country offices, emergency hubs, inter country support teams and the Regional Office for Africa, with the support of …
The first detailed study of measles outbreaks in Nepal indicates that the infection is continuing to cause high numbers of illness and deaths in areas of the country ravaged by conflict in the past. High coverage with the measles vaccine must be maintained in these areas to reduce deaths, reports …
As many as 27 cases of communicable disease have been reported in Arai area of Mandi tehsil in Poonch district. Residents, who are up in arms against the Health Department, complained that the local heath authorities didn
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 …
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 …
A day after four infants died immediately after being administered measles vaccine in Baska district of lower Assam, the state government has dismissed allegations that the deaths were caused by the vaccine.
State To Undertake Massive Vaccination Drive, Asks Centre For 1L Vials Of Vaccine Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Spurred by fears of a measles outbreak in the flood-affected districts of Bihar, the state health department has decided to undertake a massive vaccination drive against the highly contagious viral disease …
geology Climate change in ice age Greenland ice core analysis showed drastic climate change near the end of last ice age. Scientists have found two huge temperature spikes in the Northern Hemisphere prior to the close of the last ice age, about 11,500 years ago. They ascribe it to fundamental …
A flurry of imported measles cases has kindled outbreaks in 15 states and two cities that together have given the USA its largest case toll in a decade, health officials said Monday. Since January, doctors have reported 132 measles cases, just shy of the 138 reached in 1997, the Centers …
india's Universal Immunisation Programme may suffer yet another blow. The centre has asked all state governments to stop use of measles vaccine manufactured by Indian Immunological Limited, until further orders, after four infants died following inoculation with the drug. The children died in the last week of April soon after …
Report attributes death of infants to human error at Tiruvallur PHC THE measles vaccine administered to children in Tamil Nadu has been given a clean chit by the Central Drugs Laboratory at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh. In its report submitted to the Union Health Ministry, the lab suggested that human …
Tamil Nadu enjoys the top slot among the Indian states in providing healthcare. It has a 95 per cent immunisation coverage. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has certified it as a tetanus free state for neonates. No polio case has been reported here in the last four years. Also, there …
Measles outbreaks in several states have led to more than 70 cases so far this year, the worst in six years, health officials said Thursday. Most of the cases have been traced to outbreaks overseas and are mainly in children who were not vaccinated for religious or other reasons, according …
Rule Out Fault In Cold Chain System All four children who died after being administered the measles vaccine in Tamil Nadu on April 23 suffered severe brain haemorrhage resulting from an anaphylactic shock, an inquiry has found. This will be pointed out by the fivemember expert team sent by the …
A new set of procedures to administer vaccines to children will be tried in the State, following the death of four infants in Tiruvallur district after measles vaccination. Vaccination The Directorate of Public Health (DPH) is contemplating a model wherein children in a particular district would be brought to the …
In the wake of the casualties of children reported from Tiruvalluvar district of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan Government on Friday suspended the administration of measles vaccine in Jodhpur division of the State. The vaccine stocks, which reached there three days back, belong to the same source as of the Tamil Nadu, …
Four 10-month-old babies died within minutes of being administered an antimeasles vaccine at two medical camps in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district on Wednesday. Three girls died at a centre in Pennalurpettai village, about 75km from Chennai. The fourth, a baby boy, died after getting the shot in Venkatapuram village near …
Four children died in southern India after getting measles vaccinations at state-run clinics and the state has suspended use of the vaccine, health officials said Thursday. It was not yet clear exactly what caused the deaths, said Tamil Nadu state's director of public health, P Padmanabhan. Vaccine samples have been …
The sudden death of four children after they were administered measles vaccine in primary health centres in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district is a grievous tragedy. That the deaths should occur in a State with a better record of health services delivery at the primary level is ironical. The involvement of …
The Centre has recalled the measles vaccine, after the administration of which four children died in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district on Wednesday. Instructions have been issued to the States to stop the use of this vaccine until further orders, while the manufacturer has been asked to not to make any …
