Sentences with phrase «vaccination efforts»

The report last week that two children in the northern state of Borno had been paralyzed by wild - type polio virus has triggered massive emergency vaccination efforts in Nigeria and neighboring countries.

For example, I've never known anyone who contracted polio because it was eliminated in North America by vaccination efforts instituted 40 years before I was born.

To build on the expanded flu vaccination efforts at the local level, Governor Cuomo previously directed the New York State Department of Health to authorize enhanced reimbursement for counties statewide.

Influenza A causes tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. every year, despite vaccination efforts.

«For example, if flu - like symptoms are being reported in one county, you could tell people in neighboring counties to stay away from crowds, or you could focus vaccination efforts in certain places in advance,» he said.

In 2007, rabies cases in dogs and humans were at their highest recorded levels; they have declined dramatically thanks to vaccination efforts supported by another Gates Foundation — funded program.

Hamstrung vaccination efforts over 18 months could lead to nearly a doubling of cases in a measles outbreak, with thousands of additional children dying.»

In fact, the first vaccination efforts to control canine parvovirus were made using feline panleukopenia vaccines.)

For example, the company partners with Mission Rabies in its work to eradicate rabies worldwide by providing approximately $ 60,000 in health care supplies — including pharmaceuticals, syringes, and other veterinary products — to support the organization's canine vaccination efforts in Malawi.

Liability should not be an issue for towns or municipalities that implement TNR programs for the purpose of reducing cat populations, protecting public health through vaccination efforts, or resolving nuisance complaints.

Whatever the cause, the incident will be a major setback to vaccination efforts in Syria.

The tragic deaths threaten to undermine all vaccination efforts across Syria, where childhood immunization rates have dropped precipitously after years of civil war.

We used the media and other public events to appeal to everyone — including the guerrillas — to cooperate with these vaccination efforts.

The Margaret B. Mitchell Spay / Neuter Clinic of Bristol, Virginia, today announced it has been awarded a $ 30,000 grant from the Petco Foundation to support its spay / neuter and vaccination efforts in order to decrease the overpopulation crisis in our area.

What it does do, however, is work toward a more humane and safe city through targeted spay / neuter and vaccination efforts.

The Margaret B. Mitchell Spay / Neuter Clinic of Bristol, Virginia received a grant of $ 60,000 from PetSmart Charities to support its spay / neuter and vaccination efforts and help decrease the...

The HSUS supports strategic, non-lethal management of community cats who already exist outdoors through sterilization and vaccination efforts, such as trap - neuter - return.

Kuzminski, herself, started spending one day at a week at the shelter, providing vet care, while other SFSPCA staff and volunteers worked with overburdened Stockton staff to isolate animals who needed to be quarantined and to ramp up vaccination efforts.