Measles: History and Basic Biology (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology)
turenchi (Free subscription) | yesterday
Congolese soldiers involved in a United Nations-backed offensive against Rwandan rebels attacked villages where thousands of civilians had gathered to receive measles jabs.According to ...Congolese soldiers involved in a United Nations-backed offensive against Rwandan rebels attacked villages where thousands of civilians had gathered to receive measles jabs.According to ...
Congo Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Congolese government says military operations in the area have been suspended to allow an inquiry into the UN allegations that soldiers had killed civilians. From BBC News Friday, 6 November 2009: DR Congo army 'used aid as bait' The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as "bait" to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Thousands of...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Age of Vaccines In the early '60s, there were approximately 450,000 measles cases and an average of 450 measles-associated deaths reported each year in...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The DR Congo army has been using measles vaccination clinics as "bait" to attack civilians, an aid agency says.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This is an amazingly arrogant video in many senses. We're supposed to believe that former Senators Bob Graham and Jim Talent of this WMD Prevention Commission , a government-funded group, put together this snazzy and misleading video about H1N1 vaccines? Or did a Big Pharma lobbying group do it for them? It's hard to say, based on the lack of information as to the actual creator. The basic question...
PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by a polyspecific B-cell response to neurotropic viruses such as measles, rubella and varicella zoster, with the corresponding antibodies measurable in CSF as the so-called “MRZ reaction” (MRZR). We aimed to evaluate the relevance of MRZR to predict conversion of patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) to MS, and to compare it...
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
We are pleased to announce that Episode 30 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions speaks with Leslie Reagan about the German measles (rubella) epidemic of the 1960s,...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A new malaria vaccine enters it's final stage of testing. The vaccine could cut in half the number of malaria deaths each year. GlaxoSmithKline has been developing the vaccine, and it may be provided for free if there is enough funding from sources such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization and others. From the Associated Press, writer Jason Straziuso gives us plenty...
Unicef (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
APIA, Samoa, 2 November 2009 – UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are giving full support to a nationwide measles and Vitamin A immunization campaign by the Samoan Government. The campaign aims to protect more than 32,000 children in the wake of the recent tsunami.
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
by SARAH NELSON , Contributing Writer This year, the world will celebrate the first ever World Pneumonia Day . The global effort will take place Monday, November 2 with the ultimate goal of bringing attention to the preventable deaths caused by pneumonia each year. World Pneumonia Day is a collaborative effort of more than 50 child health organizations , including international governments, NGOs, community-based...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
$29 billion dollars is what the World Health Organization says it needs to fight pneumonia worldwide. Today is the first ever World Pneumonia Day, a disease that kills more than malaria, AIDS and measles combined. From this Associated Press article that we found at the San Francisco Chronicle, writer Maria Cheng describes a new plan the U.N. has to fight pneumonia. Today, the first World Pneumonia...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Marking the first international World Pneumonia Day on 2 November, the GAVI Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children in poor countries against pneumonia, the world's leading child killer. Pneumonia, a severe inflammation of the lungs usually caused by infection, is responsible for one in four child deaths, more than HIV/AIDs, malaria and measles combined.
John's World (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The reason I worry about H1N1... Not personally. I'm too old . So why is it that older people would be more trusting of vaccines? One reason is that people over the age of 65 remember a time when there were no vaccines. Polio, measles, whooping cough, and mumps were all diseases that caused grave illness before there were vaccinations. The polio and whooping cough vaccines were developed in the 1950s,...
Plastic Manzikert (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The latest bit of life-threatening trivia that's seen some major media coverage has been the fear of a link between vaccines and autism. Such a link does not exist . The science is there, is solid, and is not an evil plot. So why does the myth persist? As the linked-to story in Wired says, parents are willing to do anything out of love for their children. They are eager and willing to believe in alternative...
Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism has launched the new web site FasterVaccines.com . "The commission believes that an act of biological terrorism is far more likely than nuclear terrorism," Randy Larsen, the executive director, told the Wall Street Journal . The commission, which apparently knows a good news peg when it see one, is...
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aarkstore | 09/30/2009
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), six infectious diseases—pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS—account for half of all premature deaths worldwide, killing mostly children and young adults. What’s more, threatening pandemics such as swine flu (H1N1 influenza A virus) are adding significant pressure to already strained healthcare budgets of governments...
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