Quake survivors immunized
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Indonesia began immunizing  quake survivors against measles on Wednesday and helicopters  swept over disaster sites on Java island to look for isolated  victims, but help was still too slow for many.
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A girl receives tetanus shot from a medic at a relief camp in Nagore, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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JAKARTA (JP): Foreign journalists and aid workers are finally being allowed to enter Aceh, following the devastating quake on Sunday, an official confirmed on Tuesday.
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A teenage girl has become the first known person to survive rabies without a vaccination, say doctors. A team at the Children&#39;s Hospital of Wisconsin used an experimental treatment on 15-year-old Jeanna Giese.
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A 15-year-old girl has become the first person to survive rabies without prior vaccination. Jeanna Giese, who had been in a grave condition and on a ventilator for a month, is now in an intermediate care unit for intensive rehabilitation.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Six weeks after a monstrous earthquake and tsunami wiped out thousands of communities along the shores of the Indian Ocean, leaving 300,000 dead or missing in 11 countries, daily tremors still rattle buildings and workers wearing masks still pull hundreds of bodies a day from the rubble.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a toddler  buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a  decade were unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister  on Thursday, but some small signs of normal life returned to  the quake-hit region.
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Survivors of last month's quake and tsunami in Indonesia still face the risk of deadly disease outbreaks such as cholera, but epidemics could be controlled, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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A mass inoculation drive for 115,000 children in tsunami relief camps in southern India is underway to avoid an outbreak of measles, the United Nation's Children Fund said.
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Cargo planes touched down with aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week's quake-tsunami catastrophe. The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and increasing the death toll across 12 nations to nearly 77,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The threat of disease  decimating survivors of Asia's tsunami has receded but aid  agencies are remaining on their guard, the U.N. said on Friday  as doctors reported children dying from pneumonia.
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Health workers began immunising thousands of Afghan children against polio Wednesday, using a push for peace to access areas where unrest has prevented immunisation and led to new cases of the disease.
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Bangladesh has completed an emergency  vaccination drive to immunize two million children against  polio in a southeastern region close to Myanmar, officials said  on Sunday.
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The first U.S. vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers said on Monday.
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More than 200 survivors filled the hospitals in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia, many with harrowing tales of how they survived.
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Afghan elders have given safe passage to thousands of volunteer vaccinators immunizing children against polio in Afghanistan's violent south, a region health workers haven't worked in for months, UNICEF said Saturday.