1,013 treated for measles in N.Korea
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More than 1,000 people remain hospitalized with measles following a November outbreak in impoverished North Korea, an international aid group said Wednesday.
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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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Niger has opened a national campaign to eradicate measles, a deadly illness that kills at least 500 children a year in the vast northwest African desert state, the health ministry said.
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London - Scientists published a new study on Friday which they said adds to evidence that the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination is not linked to autism or other developmental problems.
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A week-long polio immunisation initiative in northern Nigeria's Kano state ended with health officials optimistic of 75 percent coverage of the four million children targeted.
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Nigerian health officials on Wednesday said an outbreak of measles in a village in the northern state of Borno had killed 20 children and caused a further 100 children to be hospitalised.
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At least 60 children are believed to have died in a measles outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria.
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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 UN-led vaccine development agency will work in North Korea next year for the first time to protect children from bacterial meningitis and Japanese encephalitis, officials said Sunday.
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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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Worldwide deaths from measles have fallen by two-thirds since 2000, the result of stepped-up immunization efforts and the distribution of vitamin A capsules in developing countries, a partnership of five health organizations said yesterday.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SEOUL, Korea (North) -- A group of 29 people claming to be North Koreans entered a school for South Koreans
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US health officials said Thursday they have secured an additional 1 million doses of FluMist, a nasal spray flu vaccine. This increases the total flu
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An outbreak of measles in a remote Nigerian village has killed a dozen people, Nigeria's state-owned news agency reported Wednesday.
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Korean researchers say they've had success with an oral flu vaccine that many people will find preferable to needles or inhalants.
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The United States could spend up to &#36;24 million a year in humanitarian aid for North Koreans, much of it for refugees who have fled the impoverished, totalitarian state, under legislation approved by the House Monday and sent to the president for his signature.
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GENEVA -- The number of worldwide polio cases last year rose by almost one-third after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria spawned a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said yesterday.