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Now vaccines can be stored at room temperature
02.18.2010 (GMT+5.5)
London: For the first time scientists at Oxford University have found a way of keeping vaccines stable without refrigeration, even at tropica...
Rabies has been one of the most dreaded diseases, often leading to painful death in human beings. Globally, around 55,000 people die of Rabies and, of them, 20,000 die in India alone. The animal bite incidence rate is 17.4/1000 that is 17.4 million bites every year in India. The frequency of animal ...
by Michel Zaffran, WHO; Julie Milstien, consultant; and Modibo Dicko, WHO
It has long been known that certain vaccines are stable for long periods of time at temperatures outside the standard cold chain protocol of 2[sup]o[/sup] to 8[sup]o[/sup]C. However, until recently, there have been few rea...
Dear Sir
Good day.
I have faced one question regarding NIDs, which is: if one of the governorates or provinces in any country achieves a routine immunization coverage rate of more than 95%, is there need to proceed with NIDs? This question was raised in Iraq.
My first response: I reminded him (o...
Dear Friends,
The ever increasing number of children getting paralysed in India is a matter of serious concern, nobody is talking about. Here is just a small evidence (see the attachment) to show that we need to look beyond polio eradication strategies to minimise the total number of children suffer...
Information gathered from the Health Ministry through the RTI Act confirms the overall shortage of 17 crore doses for diphtheria, measles, tetanus and oral polio vaccine.The shortage for diphtheria vaccine is nine crore doses, followed by 3.14 crore for tetanus, three crore for oral polio vaccine an...
Long-term Cold Storage Containers and Carriers
for Heat/Freeze-sensitive Vaccines:
Target Performance Criteria
by Steve McCarney, PATH
Project Optimize, a collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and PATH, seeks to develop and galvanize support around a vision for the future of i...
Oral Polio Delivered Safely Without Icepacks in Recent Study
by Ariane Halm, EPIET (European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training), and Olivier Ronveaux, WHO
Optimizerecently completed a study with the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office and the Ministry of Health in Mali to ...
POST 01410E: STUDY ON COOL WATER PACKS
31 MARCH 2009
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Umit Kartoglu from the World Health Organisation sends this report on the latest study on cool water packs, i.e. water packs refrigerated between 2°C to 8 °C, and their impact on the cold life of va...
POST 01391E: VACCINE-DERIVED POLIO VIRUS
18 FEBRUARY 2009
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In the context of the discussions on polio eradication on our forum (see POSTS: 01354E), these reports hold great interest. Cross-posting yet again from CSU, with a big thank you to Bob Davis and...
POST 01379E: POLIO—THE FINAL INCH
26 JANUARY 2009
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This posting has two interesting links to the polio eradication vs. control debate.
The first one, to an article that very efficiently sums up the primary factors in the debate: Polio’s Last Stand (Newsw...
POST 01368E: TECHNICAL SHEETS FOR POLIO OUTBREAKS
2 JANUARY 2009
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Hans Everts ([email protected]) shares with TechNet21 readers the link to a number of guidelines and standard SOP on outbreak response activities following an importation of wild polio. The...
POST 01354E: POLIO ERADICATION—LET’S FINISH THE JOB FOLLOW UP ON POSTS: 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E, 01346E, 01348E, 01350E & 01353E
20 NOVEMBER 2008
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NEED TO JUDICIOUSLY USE THE DIFFERENT OPVS
There is no single oral poliovirus v...
POST 01353E: STOPPING POLIO ERADICATION WILL BE A HUGE BLOW TO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH FOLLOW UP ON POSTS: 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E, 01346E, 01348E, 01350E
19 NOVEMBER 2008
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I apologize if I have to repeat points I thought I had made r...
POST 01350E: POLIO—CONTROL STRATEGY WILL ETERNALISE COSTS FOLLOW UP ON POSTS: 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E, 01346E & 01348E
13 NOVEMBER 2008
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Mogens,
Perhaps I misunderstand your question, but my last response started with
"As a ...
POST 01348E: VACCINATION RATES AND POLIO OUTBREAK FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E, 01345E & 01346E
9 NOVEMBER 2008
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Dear Mogens Munck,
If you look up the geographical distribution of Wild-Polio virus type I cases on http:...
POST 01346E: WILD POLIO VIRUS 1,2 & 3 AND VAPP REQUIRE AN EFFECTIVE VACCINE FOR ERADICATION FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E, 01344E & 01345E
5 NOVEMBER 2008
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Dear Editor,
As per your suggestion I looked up the web-page:
"Week...
POST 01345E: DURING GLOBAL RECESSION USE SCARCE RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY (POLIO ERADICATION) FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E, 01343E & 01344E
3 NOVEMBER 2008
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FOCUS NEEDS TO SHIFT TO OVERALL WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN
Before the eradication pr...
POST 01344E: POLIO ERADICATION VS CONTROL—ADDITIONAL ASPECTS TO CONSIDER FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E, 013342E & 01343E
31 OCTOBER 2008
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CONTROL MORE EXPENSIVE IN THE LONG RUN
Hans,
I agree with you.
You may recall that I was seconded from ...
Nouveau TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
POST 01343E: WEAK ROUTINE IMMUNIZATION AND STALLING POLIO ERADICATION—TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN FOLLOW-UP ON POSTS 01339E, 01341E & 013342E
29 OCTOBER 2008
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As a response to Mogens, no you are not correct.
My whole point is that there are 2 options: (...
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