Sentences with phrase «vaccine coverage»

The authors estimate that even a 5 percent decline in MMR vaccine coverage in the U.S. would result in an estimated three-fold increase in national measles cases in children ages 2 to 11, for a total of 150 cases and an additional $ 2.1 million in public sector costs.

Despite high levels of vaccine coverage, the U.S. and other countries have experienced an increase in whooping cough cases in the years following the switch to the new vaccine.

It's with the inactivated virus, the dead - vaccine virus that Dr. [Jonas] Salk made in the 1950s (versus the live vaccine coverage that [Albert] Sabin developed, which we mainly use in the vaccination program).

In the study, a tipping point represented the point at which vaccine coverage declines dramatically due to spreading fear, which could cause large disease outbreaks due to a loss of population immunity.

A resurgence in whooping cough cases in the U.S. is likely due to incomplete vaccine coverage in the past combined with waning protection from the vaccine, according to a new study published in the March 28 issue of Science Translational Medicine.

Global access to vaccines has been improving, now reaching close to 90 percent in some parts of the developing world, says Michel Zaffran, deputy secretary for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI Alliance), an aid group that works to improve global vaccine coverage and helped develop the pilot AMC.

The authors think that these benefits could facilitate the implementation of HPV immunization programs in low - income countries, as well as improve the relatively low vaccine coverage and series completion rates observed in some developed countries.

Influenza vaccine coverage overall is low among young children and those in need of two doses in a given season are at particular risk, with less than half of those who receive the first dose returning to receive the second needed doses.

The science of persuasion may be uncertain, but immunization advocates have other approaches to help increase vaccine coverage.

Frenk notes that Mexico has excellent vaccine coverage of children under 5 years old and the elderly, the two groups that have been spared in this outbreak.

Earlier research had relied on data about vaccine coverage and effectiveness to estimate measles deaths.

It is therefore crucial that there is enough vaccine coverage in their local communities to generate «herd immunity», where vaccine rates are at 95 % or above ensuring resistance to disease transmission exists across the whole community, even for the few patients who can not be vaccinated (please see out vaccine briefing for more information).

When the researchers directly compared vaccine coverage against vaccine effectiveness, coverage proved key in saving lives:

But a drop in vaccine effectiveness from 40 percent to 20 percent would lead to just 28,343 additional deaths, as long as vaccine coverage remained at 40 percent.

«There has been a complete change in the attitudes of all involved in believing that vaccine coverage worldwide is possible and also that we can introduce and sustain that coverage in developing countries,» notes Rosamund Lewis, with the GAVI Alliance.

«If you've seen a big drop in vaccine coverage and you've seen a surge of disease because of that, you can use these models to predict how long it will take vaccine coverage to recover,» said Professor Bauch.