Anthrax outbreak sparks vaccination campaign in Namibia
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Namibia&#39;s veterinary authorities will launch a vaccinating campaign from next week against an anthrax outbreak that was confirmed to have spread from neighboring Botswana
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Uganda will next month launch a nationwide drive to vaccinate nearly three million children against polio in a bid to prevent a feared outbreak in Sudan from spreading, the health ministry said.
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Sudanese children are to be vaccinated against polio as part of a campaign kicking off on Tuesday, after the first case in two years was discovered last month, the UN children's fund said.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests. Federal ...
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Prospects for a malaria vaccine have been boosted by âtantalisingâ results from a trial in 2000 children in Mozambique. Although the vaccine reduced the risk of infection by only 30% compared with a control
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Mozambican journalists who attended a course on reporting about HIV/AIDS, held last week in the town of Namaacha, on the border with Swaziland, have set up a network pledged to produce educational and informative programmes on the disease that will use &quot;a
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The World Health Organisation said it will redouble efforts to vaccinate Sudanese children against polio following an outbreak of the disease in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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Nine people were admitted to hospital for observation after coming into contact with a substance feared to be anthrax at the department of water affairs and forestry&#39;s Pretoria offices on Wednesday.
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DAKAR  - Africa needs to coordinate vaccination campaigns for its children on a regional level, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told a conference on immunisation and child health.
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A suburban Philadelphia company is hoping that a vaccine for anthrax could be lurking in spinach, petunias or Swiss chard.
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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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VaxGen (VXGN:OTC - news - research) said Thursday that it had received a US government contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilians.
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A huge  vaccination programme is underway in southern India - thousands are still missing in the Andamans.
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A powdered anthrax vaccine that people potentially could take by themselves protects rabbits against the deadliest form of the bacteria, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a government official said on Saturday.
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Jakarta (VNA) - The Agriculture Ministry has ordered the isolation of Babakan Madang subdistrict in Bogor district, West Java, following the outbreak of anthrax in the area.
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Nigeria&#39;s president has kicked off a mammoth effort to immunise 80 million children against polio in 23 sub-Saharan African countries, described by international health experts as &quot;the single-largest public health campaign&quot; in history to wipe out the