As India urgently scales up its vaccination campaign for the COVID-19 virus, a new study which examined the country's successful program to eliminate polio provides guidance on how this and future mass immunization campaigns ...
May 6, 2021
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Africa is on the "sidelines" of the worldwide vaccination drive against COVID-19, with only two percent of the global total to have received jabs, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday, citing supply, funding ...
Apr 8, 2021
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(HealthDay)—When New York City was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic last spring in the United States, nearby Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital was treating more than 400 COVID-19 patients at one time, remembers ...
Feb 16, 2021
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Launched in 1988, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) stands out as one of the largest, internationally coordinated global public health major projects conducted to date, with cumulative spending of over $16.5 ...
Feb 16, 2021
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I nervously fell into a long line of fellow first graders in the gymnasium of St. Louis' Hamilton Elementary School in the spring of 1955. We were waiting for our first injection of the new polio vaccine.
Jan 14, 2021
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Despite a steady rise in coronavirus cases, Pakistan on Monday launched a five-day vaccination campaign against polio amid tight security, hoping to eradicate the crippling children's disease this year.
Jan 11, 2021
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If you had tuned into the Ed Sullivan Show on October 28 1956, you would have witnessed an unexpected promoter of public health. Just before he took the stage to gyrate his way through his hit version of "Hound Dog", the ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Millions of American children are skipping vaccines that protect against potentially deadly or disabling illnesses due to concerns about COVID-19, according to a new Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis of millions ...
Nov 24, 2020
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While the world reels from the spread of SARS-CoV2, the new coronavirus behind COVID-19, a much older and previously feared scourge—poliovirus—is close to being completely eradicated. The polio vaccines, developed by ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Trinity researchers are studying how the brain re-wires itself in neurological disease. The team is building treatments for today's more common global conditions like motor neurone disease (MND/ALS) and spinal muscular ...
Nov 17, 2020
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