A measles outbreak and a spike in cases of malnutrition in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province have killed at least 95 people, mostly indigenous children, highlighting severely inadequate health care in the impoverished ...
Jan 22, 2018
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The Arkansas Department of Health says about 150 people were exposed to measles after an ill traveler flew from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Little Rock.
Jan 18, 2018
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Two people, including a five-year-old child, have died this month in an outbreak of measles in Ukraine, where the vaccination rate is among the lowest in Europe, officials said Wednesday.
Jan 17, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Single measles cases trigger coordinated public health action that is associated with considerable costs, according to research published in the Nov. 24 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...
Nov 28, 2017
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The number of annual measles deaths worldwide fell below 100,000 for the first time in 2016, but a push for universal vaccine coverage has "stalled", the UN said Thursday.
Oct 26, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Even minor reductions in childhood measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination, driven by vaccine hesitancy, is likely to have substantial public health and economic consequences, according to a study presented ...
Oct 9, 2017
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From 2001 to 2015, the overall annual incidence of measles in the United States remained extremely low (less than 1 case/million population) compared with incidence worldwide (40 cases/million population); relative increases ...
Oct 3, 2017
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Mothers in China are not passing on protective antibodies against measles to their infants, leaving children under 8 months—the age at which vaccine is first administered—vulnerable to the disease, researchers at the ...
Sep 18, 2017
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Even if measles infection incidence has decreased by at least 90 percent all over the world since the introduction of the vaccine, measles is still one of the major causes of death in children among vaccine-preventable diseases. ...
Aug 25, 2017
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Small reductions in childhood measles vaccinations in the United States would produce disproportionately large increases in the number of measles cases and in related public health costs, according to a new study by researchers ...
Jul 24, 2017
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