Sentences with phrase «vaccination campaign in»

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.

China began a new poultry vaccination campaign in November 2005.

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.

The Philippines halted its dengue vaccination campaign in December 2017 and demanded the company reimburse the $ 70 million the country spent to vaccinate 830,000 children — and that it cover medical expenses for children who develop severe disease.

Not exact matches

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.

Still, Brazilian health minister Ricardo Barros said all 27 states in the country will be targeted in a vaccination campaign aiming to reach 78 million people by 2019, according to the Associated Press.

A yellow fever outbreak in Brazil led to leaders calling for a country - wide vaccination campaign this week.

Breastmilk donation came in my mind again when I wrote the blog about Salma Hayek breastfeeding an infant in Sierra Leone while on a vaccination (tetanus) campaign.

«24 states are yet to meet their obligations for the vaccination in this 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.

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.

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.

The news caused an uproar in the Philippines, where a mass vaccination campaign was halted.

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 vaccinIn 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 vaccinin WI - 38 cells; Sweden and Switzerland had already run trials of the same vaccine.

However, the outbreak in Angola is not yet under control and is currently expanding to additional provinces, further challenging the ongoing mass vaccination campaign.

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.

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.

«We interviewed people in focus groups before the vaccination campaign and they had very emotional stories to tell about their experience with cholera.

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.

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.»

An effective vaccine would make it easier to control malaria; vaccination campaigns could be conducted in severely affected areas to eliminate the pathogen.

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.

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.

Frequent attacks on vaccination teams have greatly slowed immunization campaigns, and polio has again become a major concern, especially in refugee camps, at a time when the region was close to eradicating it.

Says Lindmeier: «It will be a huge challenge to restore trust in the vaccination campaigns.»

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.

Published in a five - page Lancet paper in February 1998, it triggered media campaigns which sent vaccination rates plummeting, and caused the most intractable health alarm in a generation.

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

News reports from the Catholic Church about the WHO vaccination campaign going on in Kenya spurred us to seek out the published research in professional journals.

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.

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.

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

In poorer countries, large - scale dog vaccination campaigns against rabies often coincide with outbreaks.

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.