Sentences with phrase «of vaccination campaigns»

«Acquired resistance is important because it is the basis of vaccination campaigns based on «herd immunity», where immunization of a subset of individuals protects all from a pathogen,» said Jason Rohr, an associate professor of integrative biology who led the research team with Taegan McMahon, a USF alumnus who is now an assistant professor of biology at the University of Tampa.

Although the head sultan of Nigeria is very supportive of the vaccination campaign, rumors have circulated in the country that the polio vaccine is a Western plot to sterilize children.

«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.

Not exact matches

Now jailed Shakil Afridi led fake vaccination campaign to collect genetic samples of bin Laden family

«Finally, they appealed to Council to directly support and commit to the implementation of the 2017 and 2018 measles vaccination campaign.»

Vaccination campaign for measles in the 17 states in the Southern part of the country has also been fixed to start from 8th March 2018.

But health officials said they were confident the vaccination campaign would reduce the number of cases.

In 2016, the Pan American Health Organization declared that the Americas were measles - free, largely because of far - reaching vaccination campaigns.

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.

«Plans for a cholera vaccination campaign planned in Yemen have been suspended based on a decision of the government,» Tarik Jašarević, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson in Geneva, Switzerland, wrote to ScienceInsider in an emailed statement, adding that the decision was made in consultation with Yemeni government partners, including WHO, which advises the Ministry of Health.

Vaccination campaigns, aimed largely at girls and women, have fallen short of expectations.

Reaching millions of people on the move with any intervention is tough, so one idea was to pair MDA with a planned measles vaccination campaign.

The reason the oral vaccination is used in the vaccine campaign is it provides intestinal immunity that is so crucial in stopping the person - to - person transmission spread in settings where you might have a high transmission rate of the virus — like in tropical areas or areas with suboptimal sanitation.

Israel's government this week launched a nationwide vaccination campaign, attempting to inoculate all children under nine years of age with oral polio vaccine (OPV), a form of the vaccine containing a live, weakened form of the virus.

The findings shed light on the effectiveness of whooping cough vaccines in the U.S. — a subject of intense scientific debate — and may help guide future vaccination campaigns and public health strategies.

Also, to reiterate one of the points made in the article, a vaccination campaign using only a malaria - transmission blocking vaccine (TBV) would indeed confer direct benefit to the immunized individual.

In 1967 and 1968, Yugoslavia conducted a mass polio vaccination campaign using polio virus propagated in WI - 38 cells; Sweden and Switzerland had already run trials of the same vaccine.

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.

Variola, or smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions before it was declared eradicated in 1980 through a worldwide vaccination campaign, is legally stored at only two locations in the United States and Russia.

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.

Because a number of trials suggested that vaccination efficiency is higher in people who had some previous exposure to dengue, the researchers considered routine vaccination of children at different ages (2, 9, or 16 years), with and without a one - time catch - up campaign targeting individuals up to age 30 who had missed routine vaccinations.

Rates of the cancer - causing virus have been reduced by half thanks to a vigorous vaccination campaign.

The team had already compiled data from the registries and archives of the BCG vaccination campaign in Québec from 1956 to 1974, which led to a study previously published in the journal Vaccine.

Knowing which chimp is most at risk makes ape vaccination campaigns more successful because it minimizes the number of individual immunizations necessary to prevent an epidemic.

Such campaigns are the backbone of the global push to eradicate polio, but this month the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed a shift in vaccination strategy from oral vaccines to injected ones that may have to be administered in clinics.

Related sites CDC information about smallpox and smallpox vaccination Current state of the U.S. vaccination campaign Bavarian - Nordic

But in this week's issue of The Lancet, researchers warn that it may be dangerous to stop vaccination campaigns once polio has been vanquished.

FILE - A health agent prepares a vaccine during a campaign of vaccination against yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 25, 2017.

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.

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.

Fears of an H1N1 influenza pandemic had spurred a mass vaccination campaign in Sweden and other European countries, and Sweden had achieved a public health triumph, getting 60 % of its population vaccinated within a few months.

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported one of its largest emergency vaccination campaigns for the yellow fever virus in Africa.

May 20, 2018 • Democratic Republic of the Congo will begin an Ebola vaccination campaign Monday.

Pet owners can upload photos of their pets to the interactive campaign map and see which clinics in their area are supporting a nationwide campaign for vaccination awareness.

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 awareness.

In the communication there is reference to equine animals vaccination to reduce transmission to mosquitos and to public health campaigns to avoid mosquito bites for the prevention of transmission to humans.

This campaign focuses on the benefits of adopting an animal from the shelter, like a free veterinary check and up - to - date vaccinations.

In Australia, I and fellow pet owner Bea Mies have been campaigning for ethical and evidence - based vaccination of companion animals.

This is accomplished through the operation of the island's only non-profit veterinary clinic, conducting ongoing spay / neuter and vaccination campaigns, animal adoption and public education programs.

Our annual spay / neuter, vaccination, and wellness campaign for the dogs and cats in Rancho Viejo, located on the continental zone of Isla Mujeres, December 1 — 5, 2017.

Scientists have always been engaged in > politics, sometimes for good (advocating vaccination campaigns against > smallpox, for example) and sometimes for ill (arguing for the improvement > of > the «white» race by eugenics), but scientists have had their «meddling» > fingers in politics for centuries, maybe millennia, without any lasting > ill > effects on our current ability to investigate the workings of the world or > > to influence the development of public policy today.

The controversy saw renewed debate around the importance of childhood vaccinations, with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten writing to the Prime Minister urging him to launch a national education campaign about vaccination, according to News.com.au.