Health
Vaccinate against measles
Future outbreaks of measles can only be prevented by vaccination.
Mar 9, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Disneyland measles outbreak puts California on alert
California is battling a surge of measles cases clustered around the famous Disneyland theme park, despite the virus being all but eliminated in the United States, authorities said Thursday.
Jan 23, 2015
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Vaccination
'The number of people avoiding vaccination is a concern': Public health expert discusses measles
Dr. Sophie Martucci is an expert in Public Health from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. As part of her agents of infectious disease module and science communication model, she covers the MMR Vaccine ...
Jan 19, 2024
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Pediatrics
Vaccines prevent millions of infections, save billions in costs: CDC
(HealthDay)—Childhood vaccines have the potential to prevent 42,000 early deaths and 20 million cases of disease among Americans born in a given year, according to a new analysis.
Mar 3, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
CDC issues alert as measles cases pop up in Georgia and other states
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging clinicians to be alert for measles cases after 23 cases of the extremely contagious disease were recently confirmed in the U.S., including two in Georgia.
Feb 1, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Understanding measles and the current outbreak
Measles used to be a common childhood illness years ago. At the beginning of this century, measles had been declared eliminated from the country. But now, measles, one of the most contagious diseases to spread, is returning ...
Mar 27, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Measles outbreak identified in Minnesota is ongoing
(HealthDay)—An outbreak of measles has been identified in Minnesota, according to a report published in the July 14 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Jul 18, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
One in eight children at risk for measles, analysis shows
Gaps in measles vaccination rates place one in eight children at risk for becoming sick from the highly contagious illness, according to an analysis of national vaccination coverage being presented at IDWeek 2015. Measles ...
Oct 8, 2015
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Medical research
Pinpointing the prevalence of mismatch repair (MMR)-deficient rectal adenocarcinomas
A widely-circulated clinical trial published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) described a new treatment that eradicated cancer in all 12 of its patients with locally advanced mismatch repair ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Health
False beliefs about MMR vaccine found to influence acceptance of Zika vaccine
People's willingness to use a Zika vaccine when it's available will be influenced by how they weigh the risks associated with the disease and the vaccine, but also by their misconceptions about other vaccines, a new study ...
Mar 15, 2018
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