Hyderabad, June 1: The Core Committee on Vaccines has finally decided that children will be given two doses of measles vaccine to protect them from the infectious disease.
Pune Two Thousand children have been involved in a WHO project at KEM Hospital to develop an intra-nasal vaccine that can be administered through a nebulizer.
Public health professionals are worried about the increasingly vocal anti-vaccination lobby in the USA and other western countries and their effect on immunisations globally.
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The State Government today admitted in the Assembly that four children died and as many were taken seriously ill in Damoh district when they developed complications after being administered anti-measles vaccination and negligence of two women health workers has come to fore in the matter.
Bhopal: Union health ministry has rushed a team of vaccination experts to investigate the death of four infants in Damoh town in north Madhya Pradesh. Twenty infants below the age of two years were administered tetanus and antimeasles vaccine in two anganwadi centres on Friday.
The four children who were administered an anti-measles shot died due to mishandling of the vaccine by the health worker, says a four-member team sent by the Union Health Ministry to Madhya Pradesh on Monday to inquire into the deaths.
The State Congress has alleged that the BJP State Government should be held responsible for the deaths of children in the Chhatarpur and Damoh districts after being administered measles vaccine. The party has alleged that these incidents were the outcome of bad practices of corrupt officials as they had purchased substandard medicines leading to the death of infants.
Bhopal: Four infants aged below two years died and 17 children fell ill after they were administered an anti-measles and tetanus vaccine at Anganwadi centres in Damoh town, in Madhya Pradesh.
BHOPAL, March 14: There was complete breakdown of supervisory mechanism and the protocol for administering anti-measles vaccine was blown to the wind leading to the death of four infants in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh within a few hours of being vaccinated on Saturday.
The children who have died are Rohani Rajgaud, Arman Vishwakarma, Gaurav Vishwakarma and Karnika Thakur.
