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Study warns of measles outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 19 (ANI): New research has indicated that a decline in measles vaccination could lead to the outbreak of the disease in full swing.
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Public health emergency declared in Brooklyn amidst measles outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], Apr 9 (ANI): A public health emergency has been declared in Williamsburg here due to a measles outbreak, with 300 cases being recorded until now, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Measles oubreak kills 261 people in Philippines
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Manila [Philippines], Mar 8 (ANI): As many as 261 people, mostly children under the age of five, have lost their lives due to measles in the Philippines since the start of 2019, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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Study shows success of measles vaccine campaigns in India
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 6 (ANI): A new report now says that a mass measles vaccination campaign saved thousands of children's lives in India between 2010 and 2013. The study was published today in eLife.
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Measles outbreak claims 130 lives in Manila
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Manila [Philippines], Feb 19 (ANI): A measles outbreak this year in Manila has claimed 130 lives so far. Among dead are mostly children aged between one and four, health authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
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WHO lists 10 threats to global health in 2019
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): Taking to its website, the World Health Organization (WHO) has written that the world is facing multiple health challenges. These include outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesit
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New York witnesses largest measles outbreak in recent history
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 09 (ANI): Amid spike in measles cases globally, New York too is seeing the largest outbreak of measles outbreak in the state's recent history.
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7 children die due to measles virus in Pak
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], May 26 (ANI): Seven children lost their lives due to measles virus in Sindh's Kashmore-Kandhkot and Ghotki districts.
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Three arrested for attacking nurse in Kerala
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Malappuram (Kerala) [India], Nov 24 (ANI): Three men were arrested on Friday for allegedly attacking a public health nurse in Kerala's Malappuram.
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India hailed for cutting child mortality rate by 1 million
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A], Sep 20 (ANI): A recent report has hailed India's work in preventing the deaths of about one million children under five in 2005-15, driven by significant reductions in the mortality rates of pneumonia, diarrhoea, tetanus and measles.
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Weaker non-medical exemption policies reduce likelihood of measles outbrea
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar.23 (ANI): According to a new study, places which have weaker non-medical exemption policies for vaccinations can reduce the likelihood of a measles outbreak 140 to 190 percent by strengthening them.
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10 million lives saved by 1962 breakthrough: Vaccines
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], Mar. 5 (ANI): Nearly 200 million cases of polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, adenovirus, rabies and hepatitis A -- and approximately 450,000 deaths from these diseases -- were prevented in the U.S. alone between 1963 and 2015 by vaccination, researchers estimate
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