Vaccination

DAKAR, Nov 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A bacterial infection passed from mothers to babies kills around 150,000 unborn children and infants a year but has been widely overlooked in developing

Publication Date:

07/11/2017

Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)

Tags:

Health, Child Health, Vaccination, Children, Africa, Developing Countries, Infant mortality

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Fighting for breath - A call to action on childhood pneumonia

This report focuses on what is now the single biggest cause of child deaths through infectious disease. Pneumonia is a disease of poverty. Fatalities are concentrated in the world’s poorest countries. Within those countries it is the poorest and most disadvantaged children who face the greatest risks.

Publication Date:

02/11/2017

Source: Save the Children

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Pneumonia, Child Health, Health Care, Diagnostic Methods, Vaccination, India, South Asia, Africa

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20 children in Bageshwar fall sick after measles, rubella vaccination

NAINITAL: Around 21 students of Vijaypur Inter College, a government-aided school in Kanda village of Kumaon’s Bageshwar district were admitted to the district hospital late on Tuesday after compla

Publication Date:

02/11/2017

Source: Times Of India (Dehradun)

Tags:

Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Bageshwar (D), Measles, Children, Child Health, Health Effects, Vaccination, Immunisation, Health

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Estimates of the burden of Group B Streptococcal disease worldwide for pregnant women, stillbirths, and children

The researchers aimed to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of group B Streptococcus (GBS), including invasive disease in pregnant and postpartum women, fetal infection/stillbirth, and infants. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis is the current mainstay of prevention, reducing early-onset infant disease in high-income contexts. Maternal GBS vaccines are in development.

Original Source

Publication Date:

01/11/2017

Author(s): Anna C Seale, Fiorella Bianchi-Jassir, Neal J Russell & et al

Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases

Vol:

65

Issue:

2

pp:

1-20

Tags:

Infant mortality, Maternal Health, Vaccination, Health Care, Africa, India, China, Nigeria, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Pakistan, South Asia, South America

Animal Care

Swine flu, botulism outbreaks put Northern Cape on high alert

Kimberley - The Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform has confirmed outbreaks of swine flu and botulism in the Northern Cape, where livestock has been placed at risk.

Publication Date:

31/10/2017

Source: IOL (South Africa)

Tags:

Animal Care, Animal Diseases, Swine Flu, South Africa, Livestock, Pigs, Vaccination, Africa

Health

U’khand to launch ‘sankalp patra’ on measles-rubella vaccination

Dehradun: After noting a dip in total immunisation percentage in Uttarakhand to 58% in the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) IV, the state health department has decided to increase the ambit of

Publication Date:

27/10/2017

Source: Times Of India (Dehradun)

Tags:

Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Measles, Vaccination, UNICEF, Infant mortality, Health

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