Child Vaccination
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US Reduces Recommended Childhood Vaccines From 17 To 11
The dramatic shift - announced by the US health department, led by long-time vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr - means the country will no longer recommend that every child receive immunisations against several diseases including rotavirus.
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Covid Behind Largest Backslide In Child Vaccination In A Generation: UN
Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations that protect against life-threatening diseases last year, as the knock-on effects of the pandemic continue to disrupt health care globally.
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Gujarat Loses The Race Of Immunizing Its Children
By Alison Saldanha/ IndiaSpend.org Among larger Indian states, Gujarat has the least number of vaccinated children: 50.4 per cent (2015-16 data). The immunisation rate of the fourth-richest state (2013-14) is now worse than that of some of the most backward states — Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, called Bimaru (or sick) state...
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Winds Of Change In Jharkhand’s Latehar, All Targeted 5,517 Kids Immunised
Latehar, Jharkhand: The broad smiles on the faces of two-year-old Nazeen and her mother Gufran Parveen are telling. The toddler is one of the 5,517 targeted children who have undergone routine immunisation (RI). In its absence, Nazeen had succumbed to measles. “The routine immunisation programme is a boon for us. Till some years ago, our elders u...
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Mark Zuckerberg Gets Baby Vaccinated. Anti-Vaxxers Go Nuts.
Oculus Rift promotions aside, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page mostly reads as a collection of feel-good family moments: a baby shower, his wife Priscilla Chan upon completing her medical residency, their shaggy Hungarian sheepdog in a Darth Vader costume.
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Girl dies hours after polio vaccine injection
An eight-month-old girl's death in Pune, hours after she received a polio vaccine injection, has resulted in an inquiry being ordered. According to a complaint made by Wakad resident Santosh Dhende to officials of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), his daughter Sanjana was administered her second dose of the triple polio vaccine an...
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US Reduces Recommended Childhood Vaccines From 17 To 11
The dramatic shift - announced by the US health department, led by long-time vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr - means the country will no longer recommend that every child receive immunisations against several diseases including rotavirus.
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Covid Behind Largest Backslide In Child Vaccination In A Generation: UN
Around 25 million children around the world missed out on routine vaccinations that protect against life-threatening diseases last year, as the knock-on effects of the pandemic continue to disrupt health care globally.
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Gujarat Loses The Race Of Immunizing Its Children
By Alison Saldanha/ IndiaSpend.org Among larger Indian states, Gujarat has the least number of vaccinated children: 50.4 per cent (2015-16 data). The immunisation rate of the fourth-richest state (2013-14) is now worse than that of some of the most backward states — Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, called Bimaru (or sick) state...
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Winds Of Change In Jharkhand’s Latehar, All Targeted 5,517 Kids Immunised
Latehar, Jharkhand: The broad smiles on the faces of two-year-old Nazeen and her mother Gufran Parveen are telling. The toddler is one of the 5,517 targeted children who have undergone routine immunisation (RI). In its absence, Nazeen had succumbed to measles. “The routine immunisation programme is a boon for us. Till some years ago, our elders u...
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Mark Zuckerberg Gets Baby Vaccinated. Anti-Vaxxers Go Nuts.
Oculus Rift promotions aside, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page mostly reads as a collection of feel-good family moments: a baby shower, his wife Priscilla Chan upon completing her medical residency, their shaggy Hungarian sheepdog in a Darth Vader costume.
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Girl dies hours after polio vaccine injection
An eight-month-old girl's death in Pune, hours after she received a polio vaccine injection, has resulted in an inquiry being ordered. According to a complaint made by Wakad resident Santosh Dhende to officials of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), his daughter Sanjana was administered her second dose of the triple polio vaccine an...
