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EVLiving...the drops of the oral polio vaccine to children and have educated families and communities on the importance of having children immunized against polio.

DDADU convenes staff meeting  -  20 Feb 2008
MorungExpress,All children between 0-5 years are to be given 2 drops of oral polio vaccine (OPV) therefore, all parents are requested to bring their children to the

72 lakh children immunised in second phase  -  Feb 11, 2008
Hindu,HEALTH CARE: Oral polio vaccine being administered to a child on Sunday in Chennai as part of the second phase of pulse polio campaign.

University of Cincinnati  -  Feb 12, 2008
Cincinnati Business Courier,...including: the first antihistamine, co-op education, the first electronic organ, the Golden Gate Bridge designer and the oral polio vaccine.

AKPABIO ISSUES ORDER ON IMMUNIZATION  -  Feb 6, 2008
Akwa Ibom State,...from 0-59 months of age in Akwa Ibom was immunized, especially with Oral Polio Vaccine, OPV, irrespective of the previous polio vaccine immunization.

Vaccination Programs Under Scrutiny (Part 3)  -  Jan 31, 2008
Newstarget.com,Guillain-Barré syndrome which leads to paralysis and is caused by immunizations for measles, diphtheria, influenza, tetanus, and the oral polio vaccine.

Pulse Polio campaign second phase on Feb 10  -  Feb 8, 2008
Chennai Online,The Public Health Department had made elaborate arrangements in coordination with other departments to administer the second dose of Oral Polio Vaccine

Rotary Int’l steps up polio eradication drive by partnering UNICEF ...  -  Feb 6, 2008
Livemint,...our intensive effort to engage with families around the need to protect every child against this disease by ensuring they receive oral polio vaccine.

PAKISTAN: Over 30 million children to be vaccinated against polio  -  Jan 22, 2008
IRINnews.org,Starting on 22 January and lasting three days, over 85000 vaccination teams nationwide are being deployed to administer the oral polio vaccine (OPV) as part

Registration set  -  Feb 10, 2008
Connellsville Daily Courier,...three doses of oral polio vaccine; two doses of the measles, mumps, rubella combined vaccine after age 1; and varicella (chicken pox) immunity,

A new strategy is improving primary health care in Garaku  -  Feb 12, 2008
UNICEF (press release),Rita Jiriko, 23, watches as her infant receives the Oral Polio Vaccine at the Primary Health Care Clinic in Garaku. Not only has the waiting time diminished

David Beckham joins Unicef in Sierra Leone  -  Jan 23, 2008
Now Magazine Online,David, wearing a black Unicef T-shirt, even helped give an oral polio vaccine to a newborn baby, before taking to a dusty pitch to play some football.

Progress in Global Measles Control and Mortality Reduction, 2000-2006  -  Jan 29, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...other child-survival intervention (eg, administration of oral polio vaccine or distribution of insecticide-treated bednets) with measles vaccination.

David Beckham in mercy mission to Sierra Leone  -  Jan 23, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,And as he tenderly gave an oral polio vaccine to two-day old Mariatsu, he may have whispered silent thanks that theirs was a plight his three children,

WHO Says Global Polio Eradication On Track  -  25 Dec 2007
Voice of AmericaThe monovalent oral polio vaccine uses only the attenuated strain of type-one poliovirus and only immunizes against that strain of the disease.

Concern over rise in polio cases  -  Dec 22, 2007
Times of India,Speaking at the meet, IAP Bihar branch president Dr Arun K Thakur said, "Over emphasis on Monovalent Oral Polio Vaccine (MOPV) rounds which take care of p1

Polio cases in Bihar doubled this year  -  Dec 19, 2007
Times of India,Sources attributed the alarming rise in number of polio cases to the delay in conducting the Monovalent Oral Polio Vaccine (MOPV) rounds.

Migrant children to get extra dose of polio vaccine  -  Dec 12, 2007
Hindu,...public health department has decided to target migrant workers for special attention and for an extra dose of oral polio vaccine for their children.

Domestic vaccine-makers a close knit group  -  Nov 28, 2007
Business Standard,However, riding on the strength of the central government’s oral polio vaccine programme, Delhi-based Panacea Biotec is the top Indian player in terms of

Gates foundation, Rotary give anti-polio battle a $200 mn shot  -  Nov 27, 2007
Livemint,The oral polio vaccine has one major advantage, especially in the developing world—it costs about ¢16 (about Rs6) a dose, compared with $2.75 for the

3-day door to door vaccination to save children from polio gets a ...  -  Dec 17, 2007
Al-Bawaba,For this mass vaccination effort, UNICEF has procured 5 million doses of oral polio vaccine, at a cost of 635500 $ US Dollars.

Efforts to Eradicate Polio Receive Much Needed Funds  -  Nov 30, 2007
Science in the Headlines,Concerned about the use of the oral polio vaccine, which contains live polio virus, the World Health Organization currently plans to stop using the oral

Rotary International and Gates Foundation Together Commit $200 ...  -  Dec 11, 2007
PR-USA.net (press release),...efforts to provide oral polio vaccine to children in those isolated locations where it's most needed," says UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman.

2nd round of 16th NIDs programmes observed in Ctg  -  Dec 10, 2007
The New Nation,The second round of 16th National Immunisation Day (NID) began in the port city on Saturday with a target to feed oral polio vaccine to about 4.75 lakh

National polio campaign kicks off  -  Dec 12, 2007
Yemen Times,2.5 million doses of oral polio vaccine, procured by UNICEF at a cost of 635500 $ US Dollars arrived in Sana’a last Monday and have been dispatched to the

Over 4 million children vaccinated against polio  -  Dec 16, 2007
Yemen Observer,About 2.5 million doses of oral polio vaccine, procured by UNICEF at a cost of US$635500, had arrived in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a last Monday,

RI and Gates Foundation commit US$200 million for intensified push ...  -  Nov 26, 2007
Rotary International,By Wayne Hearn & Dan Nixon Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gives a baby the oral polio vaccine at the Shadnagar community

Photo courtesy of Jenny Horton  -  Dec 6, 2007
Rotary International,Since Rotary launched its PolioPlus program in 1985, more than two billion children have received the oral polio vaccine, and the number of cases has

After 3 years, polio resurfaces in State  -  Dec 4, 2007
Deccan Herald,Secretary and Principal Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) Usha Ganesh said as many as 4350 booths will be set for administering oral polio vaccine.

Tunican couple aids polio eradication effort  -  Dec 6, 2007
Tunica Times,...with a group of close to 100 Rotarians, to offer thousands of children in and around the capitol city of Bojar, Nigeria an oral polio vaccine (OPV).

Japan provides $4m for polio eradication  -  Dec 3, 2007
The Post,The funds will be utilised to procure 23.8 million doses of oral polio vaccine during 2008. It is pertinent to mention that the Japanese government has been

Japan Provides US$ 4m to UNICEF for polio eradication in Pakistan  -  Dec 3, 2007
Online - International News Network,Funds provided by the government of Japan would be used to procure 23.8 million doses of oral polio vaccine during 2008 that constitutes 10 per cent of the

Polio outbreak in Nigeria sparked by vaccine, experts say  -  Oct 5, 2007
International Herald Tribune,..."This is the oral polio vaccine paradox," said Olen Kew, a virologist at the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nigerian Polio Outbreak From Vaccine  -  Oct 5, 2007
The Associated PressThe oral polio vaccine contains a weakened version of polio virus. Children who have been vaccinated excrete the virus, and in unsanitary conditions it can

Nigeria finds polio cases linked to vaccine viruses; experts ...  -  Sep 27, 2007
The Canadian PressOral polio vaccine is no longer used in Canada but it is the vaccination tool of developing countries, because of its low cost and ease of administration.

Nigeria fights rare vaccine-derived polio outbreak  -  Oct 8, 2007
Reuters South Africa,The cluster occurred when some of those who received the oral polio vaccine excreted a mutated form of the virus, which infected others who were not

Health officials fear Nigeria polio setback  -  Oct 12, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),This is rare, Rosenbauer stresses — some 10 billion doses of oral polio vaccine have been administered worldwide, and it has only been directly implicated

Polio Vaccine Leads to Cases of Polio in Nigeria  -  Oct 12, 2007
Technocrat.net,An oral polio vaccine used in Nigeria, that uses weakened but still alive virus, apparently mutated and has actually caused the disease it was meant to help

Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria  -  Oct 10, 2007
BBC News,The WHO says the outbreak occurred when some of those who had received the oral polio vaccine excreted a mutated form of the virus which infected those who

Polio vaccine caused Nigerian kids to get polio  -  Oct 12, 2007
Foreign Policy (subscription)The oral polio vaccine contains a weakened form of the polio virus. Vaccinated kids pass the virus into the water, where unvaccinated kids can pick up the

Two drops of life  -  Sep 28, 2007
HardNews Magazine,A striking paradox here is that Muslims, when visiting their holy shrine at Mecca in Saudi Arabia, have to take at least one dose of the oral polio vaccine.

Children are the target  -  Oct 19, 2007
Advertiser 24,...every child in the highest-risk age group (normally under the age of five) quickly and effectively by flooding a country with the oral polio vaccine.

Vaccine-derived polio spreads in Nigeria  -  Oct 8, 2007
SciDev.net,Net that this polio outbreak is only appearing in areas where people are refusing to be vaccinated or where there is not enough oral polio vaccine.

Rotary: Volunteers visit Ethiopia on humanitarian mission  -  Oct 18, 2007
Jimma Times,...vast array of other volunteers and health workers to administer the drops of the oral polio vaccine to an estimated 16 million children under age five.

Full Text  -  Sep 27, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Experts with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative emphasize that the widely used trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) is safe. But the low immunization

‘Vaccine needs to be kept in ice-box, no one sees that here’  -  Oct 2, 2007
Mumbai Newsline,Her elder brother-in-law is a health worker in Bihar who goes from door to door in their village to administer the oral polio vaccine, she said.

11 polio cases in UP within last week  -  Oct 3, 2007
Lucknow Newsline,As all the cases are of P3 polio virus, the Health department maintains that they will be controlled with just few rounds of Monovalent Oral Polio Vaccine-3

City’s first polio case this year: I have hurt my leg, so can’t ...  -  Oct 8, 2007
Delhi Newsline,...“But now that we have P3 virus, we will use monovalent oral polio vaccine-3 (MOPV3) — for the first time in Delhi or UP.� Delhi’s Principal Secretary

500T Pinoy infants open to preventable diseases  -  Sep 30, 2007
Sun.Star,...three doses of vaccines of oral polio vaccine; three doses of vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT); a dose for measles; and three doses

March of Dimes: A cause that hits close to home  -  Sep 30, 2007
Hilton Head Island Packet,Later, also through funding from the March of Dimes, Dr. Albert Sabin's oral polio vaccine was licensed. The March of Dimes continues to fund research and

Anti-measles drive: 55 thousand kids in 1 month  -  Sep 26, 2007
Philippine Information Agency,...to have access to immunization of BCG for childhood tuberculosis, Oral Polio Vaccine, measles, Hepatitis B, and diphtheria, pertusis and tetanus (DPT).

Nigeria Accounts for 80% Wild Polio Virus in Africa  -  Aug 29, 2007
This Day (subscription),The Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) is an essential protection for children against polio, given multiple times it protects a child for life.

In Nigeria, victims spearhead polio vaccination campaign  -  Aug 24, 2007
AFPMost Kaura-Goje parents now allow the health workers -- generally young veiled women bearing oral polio vaccine kits door-to-door -- to apply the crucial

New vaccines spur progress in global polio fight  -  Aug 27, 2007
Reuters South Africa,Children require at least three, and often more, rounds of oral polio vaccine to build up immunity to the disease, which proliferates in areas with poor

Pulse Polio Cripples Other Health Schemes  -  Aug 24, 2007
Tehelka,...subjecting the children of these countries to an unprecedentedly high number of Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) through the Pulse Polio rounds with no concern

Immunization campaign for over 4.8 million Iraqi under fives aims ...  -  Sep 2, 2007
ReliefWeb (press release),Their goal: to reach as many of Iraq’s oral polio vaccine (OPV), wherever they live, traveling by boat, car and on foot; Teams will also be working in every

Vestal Central High grad recalls school day starts in the 1950s  -  Sep 7, 2007
Press & Sun-Bulletin,..."This morning Miss Murphy will be administering the oral polio vaccine to the senior high girls in the west side of the gym from nine until 9:50.

UN Seeks to Build on Reconciliation Efforts in Iraq  -  Sep 4, 2007
NewsBlaze,Their goal is to deliver oral polio vaccine (OPV) to children wherever they live, travelling by boat, car and on foot. Teams will also be working in every

DA eyes potential of malunggay to reduce malnutrition  -  Aug 27, 2007
News Today Online,Oral Polio Vaccine, DPT (Diptheria, Petusis and Tetanus), measles and Hepatitis B. The President personally administered polio immunization vaccine

Commentary: Increased DOH budget for expanded immunization project  -  Aug 23, 2007
Philippine Information Agency,...greater access to immunization from BCG for childhood tuberculosis to Oral Polio Vaccine, DPT (Diptheria, Petusis and Tetanus), measles and Hepatitis B.

Centre urged to sanction additional Haj applications  -  Aug 29, 2007
Newindpress,Oral polio vaccine would be administered to the Hajis along with anti-meningitis vaccine as per the instructions of the Ministry of Health, government of

Detailed picture of prevalence of ADHD in US  -  Sep 4, 2007
News-Medical.net,It has an established tradition of research excellence, with discoveries including the Sabin oral polio vaccine, the surfactant preparation that saves the

Japan supports infectious disease prevention  -  Sep 5, 2007
Kessben FM,Dr. Haque noted that the campaign would not only provide life-saving bed nets to young children and pregnant women but would also provide oral polio vaccine

Immunisation drive in Iraq  -  Sep 2, 2007
AME Info,The aim is to give as many children as possible the oral polio vaccine. Replication or redistribution in whole or in part is expressly prohibited without

BROWARD SCHOOLS  -  Aug 19, 2007
Miami Herald,Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV): four doses. If the third dose is given on or after the fourth birthday, only three doses are required.

Back To School Countdown... Immunisation  -  08 Aug 2007
Jamaica Observer,...there are others which have to be given four times before age six such as the Diphtheria, Pertusis, Tetanus (DPT) vaccine, Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV),


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