Mumps isn’t part of routine health conversation in the way flu or whooping cough are; the youngest generations can’t even remember a time when not everyone was vaccinated against the virus. But the contagious illness, once common among babies and children, is making a comeback, largely at universities.
Category: Vaccinations
Mumps Infections Hit Double Digits in Dallas County
Yesterday, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed the 10th case in the Dallas County. Even though mumps is highly contagious, each case reported so far has been related to travel.
Protection required for pet holidays
Pet owners who are planning to go away on holidays are being reminded to vaccinate their cats and dogs if they plan to take them along or put them in a kennel or cattery to protect them from a range of illnesses and diseases. Pet owners who are planning to go away on holidays and either take their animals with them or place them in a kennel or cattery are being urged to make sure their pets are protected from illness.
The mainstream media lies about vaccines just like they lied about Donald Trump
One of the “mainstream” media’s narratives since President-elect Donald J. Trump “unexpectedly” defeated their chosen candidate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has been that the former was aided by “fake news” supplied to hundreds of legitimate news websites by the Russian government. That massive lie has since been exposed as fake news in and of itself , as Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, noted this week when he pointed out that the Washington Post , which originally published the story, has now backed away from the allegations.
CDC corruption: Scientists on the inside slam the agency for selling out to corporate interests
… potential whistleblowers being threatened and silenced to protect industry interests? How can we put our children’s health in the hands of an agency that has this level of corruption being reported by its own scientist employees? Action Alert! Write …
Vaccine rates strong locally
… all Chautau-qua County schools have immunization rates at or above 95 percent. But despite the strong numbers, county health officials say some vaccinations could see improved uptake rates. Before students enter school, they need to have …
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… we see lots of respiratory viruses, so it’s the whole gamut, from cold viruses all the way up to Influenza,” said LSU Health Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Dr. Bennett deBoisblanc. Doctors say one of the best ways you can avoid getting sick is …
After daughter dies of meningitis, Utah mom urges vaccine
… y/2hWXZW3 ) only one of the state’s 10 largest colleges requires students to have the vaccine. Rich Lakin with Utah’s Health Department says the vaccine is available at local health departments and doctor’s offices.
After daughter dies of meningitis, Utah mom urges vaccine
… ) only one of the state’s 10 largest colleges requires students to have the vaccine. Rich Lakin with Utah’s Health Department says the vaccine is available at local health departments and doctor’s offices. Mostly cloudy with periods of rain or …
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Jackson is a 5-year-old yellow Lab looking for a home. He does well with some dogs but would prefer to be the only dog in the household.
Refugee Children Fleeing IS Receive First Vaccinations
An aid organization in Iraq has begun a vaccination campaign for children of refugees who fled Islamic State rule in Mosul. VOA’s Kawa Omar reports.
The impact of the newly licensed dengue vaccine in endemic countries
With approximately 3 billion people at risk of acquiring the infection, dengue fever is now considered the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, with 390 million dengue infections occurring every year, of which 96 million manifest symptoms with any level of disease severity. Treatment of uncomplicated dengue cases is only supportive and severe dengue cases require hospital intensive care.
Sorry, Santa – science skeptics must be stopped, for our own sake | Opinion
… The ideas that certain ethnic groups are inferior to others, that humans have no impact upon the environment, that health regulations such as vaccination laws actually harm us are all examples of pseudoscience. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a …
Vaccination Rates For School Children Remains High Locally
… all Chautauqua County schools have immunization rates at or above 95 percent. But despite the strong numbers, county health officials say some vaccinations could see improved uptake rates. Before students enter school, they need to have …
Experimental Ebola vaccine offers high protection against deadly virus, reveals major trial
… vaccination among those who did not receive the vaccine. The trial was led by WHO, together with Guinea’s Ministry of Health, Medecins sans Frontieres and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, in collaboration with other international partners. …
Angola declares end to world’s worst yellow fever epidemic in decades
… More than 15 million Angolans and 10 million Congolese were vaccinated under a campaign coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO). In a statement entitled “The end of the epidemic of Yellow Fever in Angola”, the health ministry in Luanda …
Ebola vaccine ‘highly protective’ against deadly virus, scientists say
Girls play a kickball match in Monrovia, Liberia, in late 2014, during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. that a major trial of an experimental vaccine shows that it may be “highly protective” against the virus, which has Although the current outbreak has been contained, health officials fear the deadly pathogen could come back and have been racing to develop new ways to stop it should that scenario unfold.
Mumps Bump: Cases Rise In Iowa, Illinois And Arkansas
This highly infectious disease is much less hazardous that it was decades ago, but health officials are still reacting strongly to several big outbreaks. Most years, health officials report a few hundred cases of mumps but this year the total has topped 4,000 .
Mumps hitting state’s Marshallese hard
The breadth of the outbreak of mumps in Northwest Arkansas appears to be linked in part to that area’s community of Marshall Islanders, the director of the state Department of Health said Monday. Meanwhile, the region’s high rate of unvaccinated schoolchildren compared with the rest of the state doesn’t appear to be a factor in the unusual size of the outbreak, said Nate Smith, director of the state Department of Health.
Researchers Develop First Chikungunya Vaccine From Benign Insect-Specific Virus
Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed the first vaccine for chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific virus that doesn’t have any effect on people, making the vaccine safe and effective. The newly developed vaccine quickly produces a strong immune defense and completely protects mice and nonhuman primates from disease when exposed to the chikungunya virus.
Global Vaccine Partnering Terms and Agreements: Deal Trends, Players and Financials Outlook 2010-16
Global Vaccines Partnering Terms and Agreements 2010 to 2016: Deal trends, players and financials report provides a detailed understanding and analysis of how and why companies enter infectious vaccines partnering deals. The majority of deals are development stage whereby the licensee obtains a right or an option right to license the licensors vaccine technology.
Alcester Health Centre accredited as specialist Yellow Fever unit
Yellow fever is an acute viral illness which is spread by the female mosquito within certain areas of South America and Africa. Yellow fever is an acute viral illness which is spread by the female mosquito within certain areas of South America and Africa.