Adult Vaccinations

Summary Companies Only a trickle of aid entered Tigray during ceasefire Vaccination rates fall from over 90% before war to under 10% now Measles outbreaks reported in 10 of 35 districts NAIROBI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region after vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly two years ago, doctors and regional health officials say. The percentage of children in Tigray receiving routine vaccines has fallen below 10% this year, data from the Tigray Health Bureau shows, undoing years of government efforts to boost immunisation rates. "The hopes of the children in the region to grow healthier and happier were snatched away in a blink of an eye," the bureau said in a letter this month to the global vaccine alliance Gavi. The letter, seen by Reuters, blamed the decline in vaccination on supply shortages caused by what it called a "siege" of Tigray by E...

News Release Sept. 29, 2022 Contact information Parents urged to make sure children are up to date on immunizations The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) is working with local public health agencies and health care providers in the Twin Cities area to investigate 13 cases of measles that occurred June through September among several different families with unvaccinated children. Most of these children had a history of travel to a country where measles is common and circulating. The most recent case did not have a reported travel history, but investigators are still working to determine how transmission may have occurred. All cases are in the Twin Cities area. The children have been as young as two years old to children in their early teens, and just over a third are pre-teen. Seven children were hospitalized for treatment of measles. Minnesota's 13 cases are several times greater than the number of cases the state sees in a typical year. The higher number of ...

Recently, after a week in which 2,789 Americans died of COVID-19, President Joe Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is over." Anthony Fauci described the controversy around the proclamation as a matter of "semantics," but the facts we are living with can speak for themselves. COVID still kills roughly as many Americans every week as died on 9/11. It is on track to kill at least 100,000 a year—triple the typical toll of the flu. Despite gross undercounting, more than 50,000 infections are being recorded every day. The CDC estimates that 19 million adults have long COVID. Things have undoubtedly improved since the peak of the crisis, but calling the pandemic "over" is like calling a fight "finished" because your opponent is punching you in the ribs instead of the face. American leaders and pundits have been trying to call an end to the pandemic since its beginning, only to be faced with new surges or variants. This mindset not only compromises the ...

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Polio vaccination campaign London area Following the detection of poliovirus type 2 ( PV2 ) in London sewage the UK Health Security Agency ( UKHSA ) has declared a national enhanced polio incident response and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation ( JCVI ) have advised that an urgent supplemental polio vaccination strategy is now required to respond to this public health emergency. The JCVI advise that, as well as the ongoing catch-up offer, a supplementary Inactivated Polio Vaccine ( IPV ) campaign should be implemented for children aged 1 to 9 years in London, including those with a complete course of polio vaccination. This means all children aged 1 to 9 years in London will now be offered a dose of IPV -containing vaccine irrespective of vaccination status to prevent cases of paralysis due to poliovirus and to interrupt transmission of Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 2 ( VDPV2 ) in the community. To support uptake, a focused campaign will start now i...