Infected polio jabs to be investigated
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Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has ordered a departmental review into contaminated polio vaccine, released into the community in the 1950s and 1960s by the then government, and its possible links with cancer.
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Bangladeshi health officials plan to immunise 24 million children under five against polio in a mammoth nationwide operation Saturday after fresh outbreaks, an official said.
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Health workers began immunising thousands of Afghan children against polio Wednesday, using a push for peace to access areas where unrest has prevented immunisation and led to new cases of the disease.
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Political leaders and health workers launched a drive Saturday to immunise more than 80 million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Investigators working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have determined what caused the paralysis in four people who received Botox injections at a South Florida clinic.
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Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.
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The World Health Organization will launch a large-scale investigation to confirm whether pigs have been infected with bird flu virus, which people have little immunity too.
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Bangladesh has completed an emergency  vaccination drive to immunize two million children against  polio in a southeastern region close to Myanmar, officials said  on Sunday.
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Nigeria has launched fresh efforts to stamp out polio as part of a campaign that aims to immunise more than 80 million children in 23 African states.
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Probes into the UK's recent foot-and-mouth outbreak find the virus was in a pipe on a nearby laboratory site.
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Australia - The Federal Government will investigate a report that a contaminated polio vaccine, which has since been linked to cancers like mesothelioma, was knowingly released in the 1960s by the then government.
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The doctor behind a controversial study linking a common children's vaccine to autism went before an investigative panel Monday probing misconduct allegations, including whether he took blood samples from children at a birthday party.
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A nationwide polio vaccination campaign begins in India as part of the global UN drive to eradicate the virus.
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NEW YORK  - Simian virus 40 (SV40), which  contaminated polio vaccine widely distributed between 1955 and  1962, does not seem to have increased the likelihood of an  exposed person developing the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma  (NHL), according to a report from the National Cancer  Institute.
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Africa would today launch the largest ever immunisation campaign aimed at reaching 80 million children in 23 countries. In a massive effort to combat the Polio epidemic which risks paralysing children for
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Sudanese children are to be vaccinated against polio as part of a campaign kicking off on Tuesday, after the first case in two years was discovered last month, the UN children's fund said.
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The Department of Health is to consider vaccinating children in England against chickenpox.