Polio-free Southeast Asia within reach: WHO
September 5th, 2012 - 10:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Eleven countries in Southeast Asia region are now on track to declaring the region polio-free as the last case of wild polio virus there was ... Read more...
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WHO staff injured in Pakistan (Lead)
July 18th, 2012 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad/Geneva, July 17 (IANS) Two World Health Organisation (WHO) officials were injured Tuesday after some unidentified men attacked a UN vehicle in a suburban area of Karachi city.According to police, ... Read more...
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A million Pakistani kids to get anti-polio drops
July 16th, 2012 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 16 (IANS) Pakistan will administer anti-polio vaccine to nearly one million children in the militancy-hit tribal regions during a three-day national immunization campaign starting Monday, said officials.Janbaz ... Read more...
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Pakistani Taliban bans polio vaccination
June 17th, 2012 - 3:13 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 17 (IANS) Taliban militants have banned a polio vaccination programme in Pakistan over US drone attacks.The ban will adversely impact the already deteriorating health condition in North ... Read more...
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US senator introduces bill to stop Pakistan aid (Lead)
June 5th, 2012 - 5:11 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 5 (IANS) An American lawmaker has introduced a bill in the Senate, seeking to eliminate foreign aid to Pakistan until the conviction of Shakil Afridi, the physician ... Read more...
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Osama killing: US awaiting clarification on Pakistani doctor
June 5th, 2012 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 5 (IANS) The US State Department says it is still awaiting a clarification from Pakistan on Shakeel Afridi, the doctor held by Islamabad for helping the ... Read more...
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Fearing death, Pakistani doctor refuses to eat prison meals
June 3rd, 2012 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 3 (IANS) Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, has refused to eat meals provided by the jail authorities ... Read more...
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Pakistan government urged to shift Shakil Afridi from Peshawar
June 2nd, 2012 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 2 (IANS) The chief minister of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has urged the federal government to shift jailed Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi to any other place in the ... Read more...
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Doctor jailed for 30 years for helping US kill Osama
May 23rd, 2012 - 8:59 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, charged with treason for helping the US to kill Osama bin Laden, was Wednesday jailed for 30 years.The sentence was announced by ... Read more...
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Bank accounts of doctor who helped track Osama sealed
February 25th, 2012 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 25 (IANS) The bank accounts of the Pakistani doctor who, on the CIA's directions, allegedly helped conduct a fake polio campaign to track down Osama bin Laden have ... Read more...
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Over 17 crore kids get polio vaccine
February 19th, 2012 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Seventeeen crore children aged under five were immunised Sunday in a natiowide polio vaccination campaign in India, which did not report even a single ... Read more...
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Cuba to give flu shots to over 600,000 people
November 20th, 2011 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Nov 20 (IANS/EFE) Cuba will kick off a vaccination campaign against the flu Monday that will treat more than 600,000 people susceptible to respiratory ailments.The official daily Granma said ... Read more...
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Jharkhand to launch anti-measles campaign
November 10th, 2011 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Nov 11 (IANS) A measles vaccination campaign covering 57 lakh children in 19 districts of Jharkhand is set to begin Nov 18, a statement said Thursday.Being organised by the ... Read more...
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Britain to donate $1.32 bn to vaccinate poor kids
June 13th, 2011 - 6:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 13 (IANS) Britain would donate 814 million pounds ($1.32 billion) to help vaccinate poor children all over the world against diseases, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.Over ... Read more...
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Underfunding for Pak flood emergency jeopardizing life-saving operations: UNICEF
November 6th, 2010 - 6:30 pm ICT by ANI
Geneva, Nov 6 (ANI): A 'serious' shortfall in international aid for the UNICEF's emergency operation in Pakistan is jeopardizing life-saving programs for Pakistani flood victims including children and families, the organisation has ... Read more...
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‘India unable to eradicate measles due to leadership changes’
October 25th, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by IANS
By Francis Kokutse
Kumasi (Ghana), Oct 25 (IANS) "Frequent changes" in the leadership of India's health service is affecting the country's ability to eradicate measles, which kills an estimated 200,000 children in India, ... Read more...
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Pakistan floods: newborns likely to be malnourished
August 20th, 2010 - 12:26 pm ICT by IANS
By Awais Saleem
Islamabad, Aug 20 (IANS) Pakistani health officials fear that the more than 85,000 babies expected to be born in the country's flood-affected areas over the next six months will ... Read more...
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Vaccination drive to combat Japanese Encephalitis begins in UP
June 14th, 2010 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
Lucknow, June 14 (ANI): A special vaccination drive begins on Monday against Japanese Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh.The vaccination will be conducted in four severely hit districts of Gorakhpur, Deoria, Kushinagar and Maharajganj. ... Read more...
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Encephalitis vaccination campaign hampered by shortage of vaccine in Uttar Pradesh
June 3rd, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh), June 3 (ANI): With the vaccination programme not successfully completed in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur District, the children here are under the threat of Japanese Encephalitis this year.The inoculation drive ... Read more...
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Dozens hospitalised with encephalitis in Gorakhpur
April 15th, 2010 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
Gorakhpur, Apr 15 (ANI): Dozens of children have been admitted to a state-run hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur district with symptoms of encephalitis.The disease first came to India in 1978. Thousands ... Read more...
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Vaccination campaign to aid more than 85 million children in Africa
March 6th, 2010 - 2:14 am ICT by BNO News
DAKAR, SENEGAL (BNO NEWS) – More than 85 million children under five years old will be immunized against polio in 19 countries across West and Central Africa, the World Health Organization said ... Read more...
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170,000 bodies of quake victims recovered in Haiti
January 29th, 2010 - 10:50 am ICT by IANS
Port-au-Prince, Jan 29 (IANS/EFE) Nearly 170,000 bodies have been recovered from the rubble as the rescue works continued since the devastating earthquake hit this Haitian capital city Jan 12.
A 16-year-old girl, who ... Read more...
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Taiwan offers cabbages in return for swine flu shot
December 12th, 2009 - 10:29 pm ICT by IANS
Taipei, Dec 12 (DPA) Taiwan launched an island-wide H1N1 vaccination campaign Saturday, offering cabbages and other small gifts to induce people to take the shot.
More than half a million people took the ... Read more...
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India jeopardising global measles death target
December 7th, 2009 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Nearly 300 children die of measles every day in India, various UN agencies claimed Monday arguing that delayed vaccination policies of the country are jeopardising the 2010 ... Read more...
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More than 3.78 mn Chinese people vaccinated against swine flu
November 1st, 2009 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Nov 1 (IANS) The Chinese health ministry said Sunday that more than 3.78 million people in the country have been vaccinated against swine flu as of Saturday with no reports of ... Read more...
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New York City to declare state of emergency due to swine flu outbreak
October 30th, 2009 - 5:02 am ICT by BNO News
NEW YORK CITY (BNO NEWS) -- New York City will declare a state of emergency to implement new resources to combat the spread of swine flu, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in ... Read more...
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Expert worried over safety of swine flu vaccine
August 22nd, 2009 - 2:44 pm ICT by IANS
By K.S. Jayaraman
Bangalore, Aug 22 (IANS) A leading virologist has raised concern about the safety of the swine flu vaccine that Indian companies are trying to bring out in a hurry at ... Read more...
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20 million Brits to be vaccinated against swine flu
July 12th, 2009 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 12 (ANI): Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is reportedly preparing to vaccinate the country's entire population against swine flu.According to The Telegraph, about 20 million people could be inoculated ... Read more...
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Village boycotts polio campaign to protest civic conditions
June 5th, 2009 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, June 5 (IANS) Residents of a Muslim-dominated village in Uttar Pradesh are boycotting the ongoing pulse polio vaccination campaign to protest the authorities' indifference to poor civic conditions in their area.
Residents ... Read more...
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Scientists unravel how smallpox virus sabotages our immune system
May 12th, 2009 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 12 (IANS) Researchers are closing in on how smallpox virus go about their deadly business of sabotaging our immune system.
These findings may reveal as much about our immune system as ... Read more...
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Rajapaksa halts vaccination drive after girl’s death (Lead)
March 20th, 2009 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, March 20 (IANS) President Mahinda Rajapaksa Friday halted a vaccination campaign against rubella in Sri Lanka after a 12-year-old girl died and 26 others were hospitalised after being vaccinated.
The president ordered ... Read more...
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Pakistan’s anti-polio campaign eats up funds, not virus
October 2nd, 2008 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Oct 2 (IANS) Despite a polio vaccination campaign that has been going on for 14 years, authorities in Pakistan have failed to control the polio virus. Eleven new cases have been ... Read more...
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National emergency called in Paraguay over yellow fever
February 16th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Asuncion (Paraguay), Feb 16 (DPA) The government of Paraguay has called a national emergency to help stem the growing number of cases of yellow fever. Friday's move comes two months before presidential ... Read more...
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