Measles rise prompts vaccine call
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Parents urged to get children vaccinated after figures showed number of cases had more than trebled over last 11 weeks.
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The case before the US federal court of claims in Washington will reignite the controversy over the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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With the winter influenza season just around the corner, health officials are urging parents and doctors to vaccinate even very young children to prevent a repeat of last year&#39;s unusually high death rate among youngsters.
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The calls kept coming. And coming. With 800 flu shots to give away, Montgomery County&#39;s Health Department began accepting names for its lottery at 8 am yesterday.
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Indonesia has launched a campaign to inoculate 14 million children against measles which kills an Indonesian child every 20 minutes, or 30,000 a year.
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As another school year approaches, health experts are singing a familiar refrain: Get your child vaccinated against communicable diseases.
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MedImmune will produce more of its FluMist vaccine to help in efforts to make up for the national shortage of flu vaccine this year.
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Maricopa County is passing up 6,000 extra doses of flu vaccine, despite a waiting list of 24,000 residents wanting a shot because they are at risk for complications from the virus.
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Instead of an expected flu shot shortage, the vaccine is piling up at doctors&#39; offices and clinics. The declining demand has state health authorities talking about dropping the recommended age limit for a flu shot to 50 and older from 65.
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Health authorities in north India struggling with an outbreak of polio are asking Muslim leaders to support immunization drives, officials said Wednesday.
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International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to promising but expensive cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
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This year&#39;s shortage of vaccine starkly highlights the need for new, faster ways to produce vaccines and for incentives that will encourage more production.
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A group of doctors and hospital officials is asking the Minnesota Health Department to allow some health-care workers to get vaccinated for influenza.
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Nearly 2,000 lawmakers and staffers have gotten flu shots by the Capitol's doctors, who urged them to be vaccinated--even those not in high-risk groups--because of their routine contact with children and older people.
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Doctors believe confidence in the MMR vaccine is returning after the second yearly rise in uptake of the jab.
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International health experts called on  Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to new cervical cancer  vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million  lives a year.
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Health officials are urging parents and doctors to vaccinate even very young children for influenza to prevent a repeat of last year&#39;s unusually high death rate among youngsters.