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World attention is now focused on A(H1N1), which has already claimed 332 deaths and posted 77,201 cases around the globe as of July 1.
Freetown — Program manager of maternal child health in the ministry of health and sanitation has confirmed that Polio viruses are common in children under the age of five.
Asaba — DELTA State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara, has officially confirmed that there was outbreak of poliomyelitis in five local government areas of the state, just as he called on parents and guardians to bring up their children and wards for what he described as "another round of supplemental immunization".
Lagos — The recent stipulation by the Federal Government of December 2009 as deadline for the eradication of Poliomyelitis (polio) throughout the country is indeed a bold step towards putting a definite end to the dreaded child-killer disease.
Harare — GOVERNMENT is investigating reported cases of negative reaction by some children to the poliomyelitis, measles immunisation, and the Vitamin A supplementation drugs they received a fortnight ago under the national vaccination campaign.
The CDC convened a national vaccine advisory committee Friday to discuss the best response to the spread of H1N1 (swine flu) with an estimated 6,000 new cases in the U.S. last week alone, Reuters reports.
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY ), announced today that the company has been able to increase the supply of its Hib-containing vaccines to enable the return to a full series of vaccinations for U.S. children.
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