Sentences with phrase «widespread vaccination»

Yet hospitalisation and death rates for acute respiratory illnesses continue to rise in spite of widespread vaccination programs.

Leptospirosis is uncommon in areas where widespread vaccination of dogs is routine.

Research suggests that widespread vaccination against chicken pox, now common in the United States, may lead to a significant increase in shingles among the elderly.

Both reports allege that the WHO might have been unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry in declaring H1N1 flu a pandemic, and in backing widespread vaccination and stockpiling of antiviral drugs, a claim often made by conspiracy theorists.

«The benefits of reducing chicken pox through widespread vaccination could be outweighed by the damage from the predicted increase in shingles,» says Brisson, adding that shingles - related hospitalizations might increase.

Few employers realise that their workers may be exposed to hepatitis, says the Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board, a group campaigning for more widespread vaccination.

If large numbers of parents refuse vaccines, the herd immunity that occurs with widespread vaccination can be compromised, McCarthy said.

Because of widespread vaccination, relatively few youngsters in the developed world suffer from whooping cough.

Infections of dogs with L. icterohemorrhagiae and L. canicola are uncommon in areas where widespread vaccination of dogs is routine.

Widespread vaccination — which is why U.S. health officials are debating a nationwide swine flu vaccination program that would mandate the creation of 600 million immunizations, more than five times the 115 million vaccines administered each year to battle the seasonal flu.

However, widespread vaccination «is going to be hard to justify,» argues Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md..

[1] What the authors don't explain is that, in response, «the Florida Department of Fisheries and Wildlife began a widespread vaccination program of Florida panthers.»

Cardiac - This form of the disease is much less common than the intestinal form due to widespread vaccination.

Prior to widespread vaccination, distemper was the scourge of the canine community, wiping out entire towns of pet dogs.

Widespread vaccination has reduced its incidence, but dogs that get it often die.

Prior to widespread vaccination, distemper was the scourge of the canine community, wiping out entire townfuls of pet dogs.

And, because the spread of a syphilis infection to other organ systems is what causes so many of syphilis» most «infamous» consequences — dementia, death, and other severe manifestations of late - stage disease — widespread vaccination could also limit the disease's devastating effects when left untreated (such as ocular syphilis, mentioned above).