Tag: Vaccines
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After vaccines, drop in Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) cases in North Bengal
Meanwhile, the department has taken up surveillance of Streptococcus pneumonia (SP) on children in the age group of one month and 59 months under projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
June 24, 2019 -
World Immunization Week: 94 pc children in Bengal are immunised, says Mamata
World Immunization Week is a global public health campaign to raise awareness and increase rates of immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases around the world. It takes place each year during last week of April.
April 24, 2018 -
Plant-based vaccines could help eradicate polio virus
In a breakthrough, scientists have used plants to produce a new vaccine against the polio virus, a finding which can pave the way for global eradication of the disease. The novel vaccine was produced with a method that uses virus-like particles (VLPs) — non-pathogenic mimics of the polio virus which are grown in plants. Genes …
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August 16, 2017 -
Vaccine breakthrough of 1962 saved about 10 million lives
Vaccines saved more than 10 million lives globally, by preventing an estimated 4.5 billion cases of diseases such as polio, measles, rabies and hepatitis A, a new study has found. Among these nearly 200 million cases and about 450,000 deaths were prevented in the US over the past five decades, researches said. Scientists developed the …
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March 5, 2017