JAIPUR: The death of two infants in Nagaur district due to contaminated measles vaccine has shaken the medical and health department as they have decided to issue fresh guidelines for the vaccination programme in the state.

Europe, especially France, has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, which the UN health agency is blaming on the failure to vaccinate all children.

The World Health Organisation said Thursday that France had 4,937 reported cases of measles between January and March

A high-level team probing the recent deaths of infants in Gujarat says the children may have died because of wrong handling of measles vaccines.

In their preliminary report, experts from the Union Health Ministry and the National Centre for Disease Control have pointed to an

Information provided by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in responde to RTI filed by Dr. Babu K V seeking details on the total no. of deaths following immunization in the country (AEFI) from 2001 to 2009.

Measles remains an important cause of child mortality, although the numbers of measles-related deaths has decreased during the last decade  through childhood immunisation programmes and follow-up measles vaccine campaigns.

JEYPORE: Sudden change in weather in the tribal areas has taken its toll with over 100 cases of measles being registered in Jeypore and Ravanaguda PHCs.

GUWAHATI, Nov 3

Dispur has set 2011 as the deadline for 100 per cent measles immunisation among children in the state.

The state director of the National Rural Health Mission, J.B.

 

The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday ruled out any defect in the measles vaccine, administration of which resulted in the death of four children at Mohanlalganj near Lucknow on Saturday. The Government attributed the casualties to systemic failure.

Misleading and inaccurate claims published by an Australian anti-vaccination campaign group pose a risk to public health, a government watchdog has ruled. The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), the health watchdog for the state of New South Wales, based in Sydney, issued the warning yesterday over information presented on the website of the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN).

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