Sentences with phrase «as vaccination campaigns»

Using this model, individuals and public health officials can monitor disease incidence and implement strategies — such as vaccination campaigns, communicating to the public and allocating resources — to stay one step ahead of infectious disease spread.

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The reason that vaccination campaigns begin as early as late August is because it actually takes a while for the flu shot to kick in.

The vaccine is currently voluntary in most U.S. states, and only a smattering of vaccination coverage campaigns exist, such as those launched by the New York City Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Health in the past year.

The researchers contend that this vaccine strategy has «tremendous potential» in mass vaccination campaigns as it's so much simpler to deliver than injections.

This knowledge could play an important role in the design of future vaccination campaigns, but also highlights a deeper evolutionary logic which modern humans sometimes are governed by: as social beings, in the right circumstances, we can afford to take into account a broader societal context, but when we get the chance to invest in the evolutionary «core values» (survival and procreation) the larger context is easily forgotten.

As they spread into new areas due to changes in climate and land use, DNA can now tell us which animals will be at risk for rabies, opening up the possibility for more targeted vaccination and surveillance campaigns.»

The Texas Department of Health had conducted a countywide vaccination campaign among residents aged 2 to 10 and then expanded it to include up to age 29 as additional cases were reported.

«If 4CMenB were to be introduced into a routine vaccination schedule, measures such as adequate disease surveillance would be important to determine whether waning of antibodies might influence the effectiveness of a vaccination campaign against this bacterium,» they conclude.

Vaccination programs will be continuing: an official at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health directorate said, «It [the Guardian report] will have no impact on the immunization campaign as we have a standard procedure to carry out this exercise.»

Transit points — train stations, bus depots, busy highway intersections — are used as distribution centers during vaccination campaigns.

I would like to note that when key guerrilla leaders were captured by government forces, several of those individuals were recognized as having directly assisted the vaccination campaigns.

Children who see a positive reaction to their call to participate in a vaccination campaign, for example, may decide to raise awareness and take action on another identified issue such as school accessibility for their disabled friends.

As GARC notes some vet clinics around the world offer free rabies vaccinations for your pets on World Rabies Day or in the days and weeks before and following this annual calendar mark as part of campaigns to raise awarenesAs GARC notes some vet clinics around the world offer free rabies vaccinations for your pets on World Rabies Day or in the days and weeks before and following this annual calendar mark as part of campaigns to raise awarenesas part of campaigns to raise awareness.

The fears spread by the anti-vaxxer campaigns, on the other hand, evoke our modern epidemics such as the now entirely debunked link between vaccinations and autism, and our worst parental nightmares that any harm might come to our precious offspring.