Sentences with phrase «vaccination campaigns»

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

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

Poor countries can hardly pay for millions of dogs to be vaccinated, and their governments often have trouble organizing vaccination campaigns across vast rural areas — even if they have the political will.

This finding suggests schoolchildren should be the main target of vaccination campaigns instead of adults, according to Domenech de Cellès.

Health officials have suspended the country's 3 - day mass vaccination campaign in greater Karachi as they investigate the attacks and beef up security to protect health workers.

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.

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.

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

CDC cut back its annual flu vaccination campaign for a period of time and suspended its weekly «Flu View» report, leaving local public health authorities without access to complete national flu season data for two weeks.

One problem, several participants lamented, is that global health funding agencies prefer to spend limited resources on «sexier» efforts such as vaccination campaigns and treatment efforts than health statistics.

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.

«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.

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.

With support from GSK, which produces vaccines against viruses causing severe diarrhea and pneumonia and is working on a vaccine against malaria, Delahaye refined his idea to focus on a nutraceutical to be administered during vaccination campaigns.

One has to do with liability questions and the 1976 swine flu vaccination campaign.

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.

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

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.

«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 China's Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of annual rabies vaccination campaign, scientists say local governments periodically skip the program to save money.

But even an imperfect vaccine — one that doesn't provide total protection against infection but does help strengthen immune defenses against the spread of a syphilis infection — would be a boon for babies, as incidence of congenital syphilis could plummet in the wake of successful vaccination campaigns.

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.

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

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

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

In northeastern Nigeria, GPEI has set up transit posts like this one on Maiduguri Road to catch children who were missed in the door - to - door vaccination campaigns — the families just escaping Boko Haram, or the Fulani nomads who move with the seasons in search of grazing land and water for their animals.

In late March, GPEI launched its largest synchronized vaccination campaign ever, targeting more than 116 million children across 13 countries in West and Central Africa.

In 2012, to settle doubts about whether vaccination campaigns are possible during an epidemic, Ivers and colleagues vaccinated a rural community in Haiti.

An effective vaccine was developed in the 1960s, and mass cattle vaccination campaigns eliminated the virus from large areas of Asia and Africa by 2000, though it persisted in remote herds until now.

Local officials launch a spraying campaign that targets flies, an influenza vaccination campaign, and an epidemiological investigation back to 10 March.

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.

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.

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«To sustain the protection that has been afforded to date against meningitis A, all at - risk countries must finish conducting vaccination campaigns and begin incorporating the vaccine into routine childhood immunization programs.»

A mathematical model determined that if no subsequent immunization program was implemented after the large one - off vaccination campaigns, countries could expect to see epidemics recur within 15 years.

Planning is already under way for the January vaccination campaigns in the so - called low transmission season, when the «virus is at its weakest,» he says, and GPEI will continue to support Pakistan's antipolio drive after that.

Six vaccination campaign workers were shot and killed yesterday and today, and two others were injured, in attacks in Karachi and Peshawar, in the northwestern part of the country.

The circuitous route is used because the Syrian government's vaccination campaigns do not usually reach the rebel - held areas.

China began a new poultry vaccination campaign in November 2005.

But some scientists worry that lingering vaccine virus could wreak havoc in unvaccinated children once the world is declared polio - free and mass vaccination campaigns finally stop.

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

Health officials from 21 nations last week announced an ambitious but crucial goal: the eradication of measles worldwide through intensive vaccination campaigns.

A mass reindeer vaccination campaign is underway in Yamalo - Nenets, local officials told NBC News.

The government is about to launch a massive nationwide measles vaccination campaign.

The Philippines halted its dengue vaccination campaign in December 2017 and demanded the company...

«Earlier this year, MSF conducted a large oral cholera vaccination campaign to prevent an epidemic that could potentially strike that already very vulnerable population.»