(Reuters Health) – Pregnant and breastfeeding women who travel to places with high risk of diseases like malaria and yellow fever are less likely than other women travelers to be protected by vaccines and drugs, recent U.S. research suggests. Lack of information about the safety of some preventive medications and vaccines during pregnancy and breastfeeding […]

By Nando Afonso in Luanda, Angola Luanda — MORE than 1 200 people have died of malaria since the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in Angola this year. Most of the victims are children under five years of age, mostly in the central Huambo Province. Clementino Sacanombo, Huambo malaria programme supervisor, said the province was […]

Production of yellow fever vaccine in the U.S. has been discontinued while the manufacturer transitions production to a new facility. As a result, San Juan Basin Public Health will not receive an additional supply of the vaccine until mid-2018. Yellow fever is a serious disease caused by a virus found in parts of Africa and […]

Viral suppression at the time of immunisation is the most important determinant of long-term response to yellow fever vaccination among people with HIV, Swiss investigators report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Every person with an undetectable viral load at the time of first yellow fever vaccination continued to have a protective response ten years after vaccination, they […]

Yellow fever vaccination centre was inaugurated by Dr Samia Rashid, principal/ dean, Government Medical College, here at Immunization Clinic, Block-F, SMHS Hospital, The first such centre in J&K state is approved by director general health services, Government of India and vaccines are provided by Central Research Institute, Kasauli. The centre is run by Department of […]