http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Two Nigerian journalists and a cleric were granted bail on Thursday after being charged over a controversial radio programme on polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-nigeria-journalists-polio.html Other Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:35:27 EST news279884110 Egypt will carry out a vaccination campaign for children in parts of Cairo after polio was recently found in the capital's sewage, believed to have been brought to the country from Pakistan, a Health Ministry official said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-egypt-vaccinate-polio-sewer.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:05:53 EST news278255143 Thirty-eight children from northern Chad have been hospitalised after being vaccinated for meningitis in a government campaign, the health minister said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-children-hospitalised-meningitis-shot-chad.html Pediatrics Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:42:46 EST news277987359 An outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed at least 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region is Africa's worst in decades, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-darfur-yellow-fever-outbreak-worst.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:06:26 EST news274021577 A rare outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region in the past three months continues to spread, the UN warned on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-darfur-yellow-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:33:45 EST news274001616 US Navy medical experts have arrived in Sudan to help analyse samples of suspected yellow fever, which has killed 127 people in the Darfur region since early September, health officials said on Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-yellow-fever-hit-darfur-navy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:43:57 EST news272897029 (AP)—Sudan has launched a massive vaccination campaign to immunize 2.4 million people against an outbreak of yellow fever in the restive region of Darfur, the U.N. said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-sudan-vaccinate-yellow-fever-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:24:48 EST news272535873 Mosquito-born yellow fever has killed 32 people in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region this month, the health ministry said in a statement obtained by AFP on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-yellow-fever-sudan-darfur-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:05:11 EST news270965098 A huge vaccination campaign to protect 50 million people against meningitis has been launched in seven African countries aiming to stamp out the deadly virus, health officials said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-vaccines-ready-million-africa-meningitis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:50:01 EST news268557701 Debate about the public health response to Haiti's cholera epidemic continues as the crisis enters its ninth month, with some experts arguing that a vaccination campaign in Haiti would be neither feasible nor cost-effective, and advocating putting forth other measures. In a viewpoint article published on May 31st in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a coalition of medical and public health researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, led by Paul Farmer, cofounder of Partners In Health and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, argue that a universal vaccination campaign is essential to ending the crisis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-cholera-haiti-world.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:18:06 EST news226120662 A systematic effort to improve flu vaccination rates for healthcare workers has increased flu vaccinations rates from 59 percent to 77 percent at the University Health System (UHS) in San Antonio. A report detailing their interventions to increase vaccination was published in the June issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-systematic-effort-hospital-employee-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 May 2011 14:50:18 EST news223739404