The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found no link between COVIDovid vaccines and cardiac deaths among young people.
Ontario is still playing catch-up on routine vaccinations that many children missed during the pandemic and public health officials are warning that it could take years to solve the problem. “What we see around the world is when the vaccination rates drop, you have a resurgence of vaccine preventable disease,” Dr. Anna Banerji, a Toronto-based pediatric infectious disease specialist, told CTV News Toronto. “If someone had measles and they were with a group of unvaccinated kids, then for...
Several cases have been in infants too young to be vaccinated.
Geneva, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) In the past 50 years global immunization has saved 154 million people, equivalent to six lives every minute, and most of them were babies, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Wednesday. The post Global vaccination saved 154M lives in past 50 years – WHO first appeared on Prensa Latina.
The parliamentary inquiry into the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis is going to take three years, and it will be 2026 before public hearings are held, it emerged on Wednesday. A budget of over €7 million has been set aside for the inquiry during which prime minister Mark Rutte and former health minister Hugo de Jonge will be heard under oath. If MPs back the revised plan for the inquiry it will start in May. Closed interviews will take
The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020.
The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found. The AP drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents, leaked recordings, and dozens of interviews that showed the
Dr Jessop said the HSE aims to complete this booster programme by the end of May.
UNICEF had requested a sanctions exemption to bring ‘cold chain’ equipment into the country.
Amidst the anticipated increase in vaccine-preventable diseases as the global population ages, a first-of-its-kind study has underscored the dual benefits of adult immunization programs. Beyond saving lives and preventing severe illnesses, the study found these programs offer substantial financial advantages to nations by reducing the need for costly hospitalizations and emergency medical interventions and avoiding […]
San José, Apr 13 (Prensa Latina) The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) today urged families to go to health care centers to vaccinate their children against measles, rubella and mumps. The post Costa Rica urges families to go to centers for child vaccination first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trialDoctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently cure cancer.Melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Currently, surgery is the main treatment although radiotherapy, medicines and chemotherapy are also sometimes used. Continue reading