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 Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and...
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 The human papilloma is a papilloma virus which infects the skin and mucous membranes of humans. 130 HPV types have been discovered until now and some of them can cause warts or cancer. Still, other types have no symptoms. Almost 40 types of them are transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. The persistent...
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A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the history of HIV, suggesting the virus that causes AIDS has been infecting people for at least 100 years.
The most pervasive and virulent global strain of HIV began spreading among human beings between 1884 and 1924, new research published Thursday in...
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 Researchers have stated that if pregnant women get flu shots a month or more before giving birth, they might protect their babies too, in their first six months. Dr. Mark Steinhoff, a pediatrician with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, said that the study is about "immunize the mother and you protect...
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 Researchers have discovered that the vaccine against MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) doesn’t work for autism too. So the vaccine doesn’t raise the risk for the bipolar disease of autism. Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University College of Physicians and...
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 Even if researchers have recently stated that the vaccine against chickenpox could diminish its occurrence in children with almost 90%, some doctors and health officials fear that many parents don’t take the disease seriously enough as to get their children vaccinated.A study released in the journal of Pediatrics on Tuesday and made by...
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 Nearly 700 elderly people, half of whom had a flu vaccine and half of whom had not, were the subject of a new study. The study’s results will appear in the first issue for September of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a publication of the American Thoracic Society.The researchers stated that the flu vaccine...
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The cervical cancer is the malignant cancer of the cervix uteri or the cervical area and it may induce vaginal bleeding. Still, some symptoms can be discovered only after the disease reaches advanced stages. Surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy may help in the early stages of the cancer.Also treatments can help and the Pap smear...
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 As AIDS is a global pandemic, killing millions of people, measures have to be taken in order to decrease the number of deaths. In the short-term, in an effort to reach the target, governments must carry on expanding the employ of the methods currently at people’s disposal. Abstinence and faithfulness campaigns, condoms, and male...
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 According to the findings of a study of over 3,500 patients aged 65 or more, the flu vaccine might not be able to protect the elderly from pneumonia as once thought. The study, carried out by a team of researchers led by Michael L. Jackson of the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle, analyzed data from seniors who had...
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The writing had been on the wall for some time. But last week, it became official.
The search for a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is
taking an about-turn, back to the laboratory and away from human trials
that had held out so much hope in the past two years. The
news was delivered by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the...
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 According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the original Pave 100 study had planned to enlist 8,500 volunteers in the US, South America, the Caribbean and Africa. The most important aims of the study were to determine if the vaccine prevented HIV-1 infection and if vaccination leads to the decreased viral load...
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 Researchers have developed a plant-based cancer vaccine able to start the body's immune response and to adapt to a patient's specific tumor type, says a recent study. The tobacco plant, which is blamed for million of cancer cases, could be the remedy to treat one form of the disease.The study carried out by the National Academy of...
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 Treating Alzheimer’s disease may be problematic, according
to researchers. Although an older drug proved to be very efficient in improving
the health condition of people who suffer from Alzheimer, an experimental
vaccine din not succeed in putting off the evolution of the disease, in spite
of the fact that it cleared amyloid plaques...
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 A new study published in the New England
Journal of Medicine suggests an experimental immune system treatment that uses
the patient’s own cells might be an effective treatment for deadly skin cancers
called melanomas.
A 52-year-old man with recurrent melanoma,
which had already spread to a lung and a lymph node in his groin get...
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 Top AIDS experts said Tuesday that a HIV vaccine will not be soon available and much more basic research is needed before attempting again to develop one. This conclusion was mainly the result of the total failure of trials for current vaccine prototypes, some of which have actually raised the risk of contacting HIV.What the...
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 A team of researchers from the University of California, San
Diego, has found that immunization with a stabilized version of a protein on
Streptococcus bacteria can protect against Strep infections, from which more
than 600 million of people suffer each year and 400,000 even die.
In the March 7 edition of the journal Science,...
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 During the next 18 months, The Seattle Biomedical Research
Institute and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative will be asking people in
Seattle to volunteer to be exposed to the deadliest form of malaria, in order
to help them test the effectiveness of more types of vaccines.
With more than 70 scientists focused only on malaria,...
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 An Indonesian health ministry official
announced on Friday that his country had sent 12 bird flu virus samples to one
of the World Health Organization’s laboratories. The official also confirmed
that Jakarta received assurance that it would
soon have access to affordable vaccines against this terrible disease that has
already killed...
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 The findings of a new study
showed that stress can lead to the development of cervical cancer in women. The
recent study published in the February issue of Annals of Behavioral Medicine,
examined 78 women who were diagnosed with cervical dysplasia (precancerous
cervical lesions).
The researchers tested the women
to see...
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 Influenza is affecting the whole globe, because the flu
vaccine only protects against about 40 percent of the flu viruses, officials at
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, according to
the Associated Press.
"After relatively low levels of influenza activity in
the early part of the season, since...
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 According to a new study, nearly three times as many smokers
given an experimental vaccine against nicotine quit for one year, compared with
those given a placebo.
The vaccine is called NicVAX. It triggers the production of
antibodies that seek out and bind with nicotine molecules in the blood. That
makes them too big to cross the...
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 According to federal advisory recommendations made on Wednesday,
the nasal influenza vaccine by a unit of AstraZeneca PLC could be allowed for
use in healthy children as young as age 2.
The recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices, or ACIP, follows an expanded approval of the vaccine's use last
month by...
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 According to this months issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, being over the age of 65 years old and getting an annual flu shot will reduce the risk you will be hospitalized with flu complications by 27 percent and cut your risk of flu-related death by 48 percent.However, this is not a point of view shared by everyone, some...
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 Merck also known as
Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the USA
and Canada,
one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has abandoned trials
on an HIV vaccine that was regarded as one of the most promising in the fight
against Aids.
The decision came after scientist discovered that the drug
was in fact...
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 Tuberculosis has been spreading worldwide faster than
technology can catch up to it, with an increase of 16 percent in diagnosed
cases over the past year in the Seattle
area alone.
To help the cause, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
has made a more than generous donation on Tuesday of 280 million dollars to
help develop...
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 A new vaccine, codenamed BHT-3009, had positive effects in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). A new study, published in the Archives of Neurology, claims that an early phase-I trial done on 30 patients at Montreal Neurological Institute showed the vaccine has passed basic safety tests.The study was led by Amit Bar-Or, M.D., of the...
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 Researchers have found that oral sex with multiple partners increases the risk of contracting the human papillomavirus, which in turn increases the risk of developing throat cancer.
The risk is present for both men and women. The study is published in the May 10 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers, from John...
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 The federal officials have asked doctors and state health agencies to be more careful when they diagnose children because many of the kids aged under 5 can now be infected with the Haemophilus influenzae type B. This can happen because of a vaccine shortage which could only be resolved next year. Haemophilus influenzae type B is a...
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 The fight against flu outbreaks consists of warning the victims in time so they can get a vaccine. Google.org is part of Google Inc. and represents its philanthropic part. They are now trying to help the U.S. authorities to track down the flu in time for the potential victims. Google.org will introduce a new tool which could spot the...
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Dengue fever, a
mosquito-borne virus, has killed at least 21 people out of 22,000
infected in Vietnam so far this year, an official said Thursday.
The number of people killed by the virus is 25 per cent lower than the
same period last year and the number of people infected is 14 per cent
lower, according to Nguyen Huy Nga,...
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 People infected with HIV should begin drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, a new study suggests. The 8,374 HIV-infected patients study found that treating HIV earlier than federal health officials recommended can lengthen sufferers’ lives. Postponing the treatment of HIV infection until patients’ immune systems are...
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 According to the recommendations of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, adult tobacco smokers should get the pneumococcal vaccine.Over 50 percent of serious invasive pneumococcal diseases occur in adults who smoke cigarettes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Pneumococcal diseases, which are infections caused by a...
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 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Wednesday that reports of serious side-effects and deaths in women and young girls are likely not linked to the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. “Based on all of the information we have today, the CDC and FDA have determined that Gardasil is safe to use and effective in...
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 An increased number of children arrive at medical facilities for flu vaccines, according to public health officials.Waiting for the 2009-2009 flu season, more than a few vaccine manufacturers started shipping their products since August. A record-setting amount of influenza vaccine will be available this season as the Centers for Disease...
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 As part of the "Protect Hawaii's Keiki: Stop Flu At
School" program, the state Department of Health started giving flu vaccine
at no cost to thousands of Hawai'i elementary and middle school students, in an
attempt to reduce the number of people getting influenza or dying from it, a
local newspaper informs.
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As many as 49 children, many of them less than a year old, died during clinical trials of new drugs and therapies at a premier Indian medical institute over the past two and a half years, news reports said Monday.
"A total of 49 deaths corresponding to 1.18 per cent mortality among the enrolled patients were recorded during the...
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Religion and sexuality make
strange bedfellows. No society has ever existed without them, but when
it comes to HIV and AIDS, the two social constructs coexist
uncomfortably. Religion often acts as a barrier to HIV
prevention work, AIDS activists, public health experts and sociologists
attending the XVII International AIDS...
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Hundreds of chickens at a poultry farm in
southern Vietnam died of avian influenza even though the owner of the
farm reported the birds were vaccinated against the disease, an
official said Thursday. Several hundred of the 3,000 chickens
died at a farm in Tan Lan commune in the Long An province, 50
kilometres west of Ho Chi Minh...
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 Gardasil is being advertised as a means to protect against cervical cancer by vaccinating against HPV. Since its approval several years ago, more than 8,000 complaints about it emerged, according to Centers for Disease Control. Nausea, ailments, paralysis, genital warts, blood clots and even death are said to be caused by the...
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Several
years ago, Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug
Administration as a way to prevent four strains of HPV, a sexually transmitted
virus which can trigger cervical cancer.
Since
its approval, more than 8,000 complaints about the controversial Gardasil
emerged, according to Centers for...
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 Few years ago there weren’t many treatment options for people
with cancerous brain tumors. Surgery and radiation were the most frequently
used.
Chemotherapy is now an extra aid in this fight against
malign tumors. But unfortunately, these treatments buy time, they are no
palliatives. It was concluded that the biggest problem with...
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 Federal health officials confirmed their belief in the
safety of childhood vaccines, in reaction to questions raised by a government
settlement with the parents of a 9-year-old girl, who developed autism symptoms
after receiving childhood shots.
The government agreed to pay the Poling family from the
National Vaccine Injury...
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 The Pentagon can continue its policy of compulsory anthrax
vaccinations, federal judge Rosemary M.Collyer decided Friday.
Judge Collyer said that the Food and Drug Administration
made no mistake in approving the vaccine as safe.
"The FDA applied its expertise and found the vaccine is
effective. The FDA did not act...
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 Argentinians who want to travel in the north of the country
were getting vaccinated on Tuesday, because of an epidemic of yellow fever that
broke out in the region and already killed at least 21 people.
Public health officials recommend vaccination, 10 days
before departure, to anyone who plans traveling in area where yellow...
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 A new study that
sustains the idea that autism does not develop in children vaccinated with thimerosal
vaccines, due to be published in the February issue of Pediatrics, was released
earlier on Wednesday, to put an end to the controversies surrounding the new
ABC drama “Eli Stone”.
The opening episode of
the series...
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German Harald zur Hausen on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer.
He shares the prize with French scientists Francoise Barre- Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, who were awarded the prize for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The...
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Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who shared the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday, was honoured for his research which led to the development of a vaccine against cervical cancer.
Born in Gelsenkirchen in the West of Germany, zur Hausen studied medicine in Bonn, Hamburg and Dusseldorf. After graduating in December 1960 he...
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The findings of a virus that causes cervical cancer and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
German Harald zur Hausen was awarded for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc...
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The Los Angeles Times reported that a top government scientist who helped law enforcement analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks had died Tuesday in Maryland. The man apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to charge him for the anthrax attacks, being a leading suspect in the act that frightened...
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A top government scientist who helped law enforcement analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks had passed away in Maryland. Apparently, he committed suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times reported.62-year-old Bruce Ivins, who for the past 18 years worked for the U.S....
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Montana
is known for its big industry on cattle. Approximately 2.6 million cows place Montana as the sixth
largest state in terms of number of beef cattle. This industry provides more
than $1 billion annual for producers in Montana,
thing that makes it the largest component of agriculture.
At the time being, officials in...
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 Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy took part in
the Green Our Vaccines march on Washington
D.C. The actors hope that by
joining the march they could raise awareness about autism.
They joined with national autism advocacy
groups to raise awareness about toxins in vaccines and to change children’s
vaccination schedules.
The debate...
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 ABC’s new legal drama, “Eli Stone” to be broadcasted at 10 p. m. Thursday, is already the subject of great controversy.
The TV show is about a lawyer, Eli Stone, portrayed by British actor Johnny Lee Miller, who represents a mother asking for damages from the company manufacturing a vaccine that allegedly caused...
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 The Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis announced on Thursday that it has registered record profit sales of 12 billion dollars during the previous year.However, the company’s profit has fell by 42 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, collapsing to 931 million dollars, decreasing its after- tax profit for the entire year by 4...
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 Eighteen chickens have been found dead from bird flu in a Binyamina kindergarten's animal corner, while two others were unaffected. The Health
Ministry, which is investigating but has stressed there is no reason to panic,
said on Thursday that the animal corner had been completely closed, and that no
one - including the children - had...
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, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include English portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1727; Scottish reformer Robert Owen in 1771; opera...
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A shadow of doubt has been thrown over the government’s
claim to have swiftly contained the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
after a new outbreak seems to share the same origin.
Scientists believe a second report of the virus a month after foot and mouth
was first confirmed was part of the same outbreak, suggesting the...
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 According to researchers, some viruses being used in experimental AIDS
vaccines may damage the immune system by exhausting key cells. The result was
reported on Thursday in a finding that may further cloud the field of HIV
vaccines.
They said vaccines using the viruses should not be tested on people until
more studies are...
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 Federal officials announced on Thursday that one in four girls in the United States had their shot against cervical cancer. This is the government’s first study of vaccination rates for the Gardasil vaccine. This vaccine protects young girls and women against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus, or the HPV. The strains of this...
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 This year doctors recommend us to take the flu shots which are now available for any age, even for the ones age 18 and younger. Still, infants 6 months old and younger are totally forbidden to take the vaccine. All the adults have been under flu vaccine recommendation for years so they don’t pass it to the elderly, who are most likely to...
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Homophobia and disappointments in the search
for a vaccine were expected to dominate the 17th International AIDS
Conference as an estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians
and activists gathered in Mexico City. UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon told the conference on its opening day Sunday that
discrimination...
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 Arrangements for a large-scale human trial of a potential
H.I.V. vaccine in the United
States were abandoned on Thursday because a
leading federal official said scientists became aware of the fact that they did
not have sufficient knowledge regarding the interactions between H.I.V.
vaccines and the immune system.
The decision...
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A vaccine used to stop
outbreaks of the deadly bird flu virus in chickens in Hong Kong for the
last seven years is losing its effectiveness, a leading microbiologist
warned Tuesday. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said the vaccine,
which protects chicken from the H5 strain of the virus, is becoming
less effective and the city risks...
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 People aged 60 or older should be vaccinated with Zostavax,
which prevents shingles, a painful disorder related to chickenpox, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Thursday. The new
recommendation was published in the May 15 online edition of the Mortality and
Morbidity Weekly Report.
This new advice...
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 Every year, flu makes more than 200,000
victims in the U.S.,
with 36,000 of them dying because of this illness.
Although last year’s vaccines were only 44%
effective against the flu, the five companies that produce influenza vaccine
intend to release about 143 million doses for the 2008-2009 season, according
to the Associated...
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Chinese officials compelled health care providers to report all cases of the disease caused by Enterovirus71, which has sickened more than 15,799 children and killed 28 others across the country, as the Associated Press informs. The reports must be done in 24 hours from the moment new sickening cases have been recorded.
The alarming...
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Eastern China is overpowered by Enterovirus 71 infections. Twelve children were killed and 1200 sickened in Fuyang, a city in Anhui province. The virus is considered to have the capacity to spread very fast. According to Reuters, the outbreak took place in March and it is propagating to a neighboring province, Henan. All the infected...
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 The 2006 mumps outbreak in the US has affected also those who got the second booster shot, introduced in 1990. This came as a surprise for many experts, as it was widely believed that the second shot would boost immunity to a high level and for a longer period of time.In the 2006 outbreak, nearly 7,000 got the mumps, most of them in the...
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 The parents of a 9-year-old girl will receive money from a federal
fund that compensates people injured by vaccines, after their daughter started
to behave oddly and was eventually diagnosed with autism, following several
childhood shots.
"Suddenly my daughter was no longer there," said
Terry Poling, the girl's...
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 Even if Paraguay’s
people panicked and started to act violently because of the recent yellow fever
outbreak, the country’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare is
currently trying to deal with the problem. Paraguay is also being helped by
neighbor countries and by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Ministry...
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 A bunch of
A-list stars might have got hepatitis A, after a bartender at actor Ashton
Kutcher’s 30th birthday party was found to have this highly infectious
disease. Unfortunately for them, hepatitis A is not something we can’t escape
just like that, because you’re a Hollywood
star and everyone saw you in many popular movies....
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 The United States’ Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention announced on Friday that the flu season worsened, as the
disease reached no less than 49 states and had killed already 22 children. On
Thursday the United States’
Food and Drug Administration said that it should completely change the flu
vaccine mix for next year, as the...
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 An experimental vaccine appears to protect newborns from
meningococcal disease, a major cause of meningitis.
Babies under 1 year are especially vulnerable to
meningococcal disease. Infants this age have the highest rates of infection but
aren't protected by an existing vaccine, which is approved only for children
over 2.
Though...
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 According to recent studies the number of Americans with
some sort of substance abuse or dependence is 22.2 million.
Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine have developed
a vaccine that is currently in clinical trials that doesn’t fight what most
consider to be a real illness or disease like cancer or AIDS. Rather, this...
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 According to an official government report released recently
regarding cervical cancer, girls as young as 12 will be vaccinated against the
virus that causes cervical cancer from next September.
Those aged 12 to 13 (Year 8) will receive the jab in a
program costing up to £100 million a year in England.
There will also be a...
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 According to researchers, an experimental malaria vaccine
tested in Africa is safe and effective in babies, who
are most at risk of dying of the disease. If all goes well, experts say the
drug could become available in the next few years to protect infants and young
children from the mosquito-borne illness.
Malaria kills more than...
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