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New Plan To Increase Global Access To Vaccines Endorsed By World Health Assembly

(Medical News Today) Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly have endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities…

May 30, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Upper East: Two more people die from anthrax

(GhanaWeb) Two more people have been reported dead in fresh cases of anthrax in the Upper East region. It follows a vaccination exercise which was thought to have brought the situation under control after two humans and 20 cows died from an outbreak of the deadly infections at Gogo in the Bawku West district last Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Biosafety concerns for labs in the developing world

(Nature.com) Biocontainment labs across the Asia-Pacific region all too often fail to live up to the term. An inspection of dozens of labs has found that nearly one-third of the biosafety hoods intended to protect workers from deadly pathogens did not work properly — an offence for which a Western lab could be shut down. Read More »

May 23, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biosafety, International, and Research
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Health Experts Narrow the Hunt for Ebola

(Infection Control Today)Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and other species known to succumb to the virus, according to a consortium of wildlife health experts.

May 18, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Fuel ‘crisis’ hampers anthrax vaccination exercise

(Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) The Upper East Regional Director of Veterinary Service, Dr. Thomas Anyorikeya says, the main challenge facing the vaccination of animals in the area following the outbreak of anthrax is how to fuel vehicles to move into communities. Dr. Anyorikeya said though his outfit has presented budget to that effect only one District Read More »