Immunizations

FILE -- In this Jan. 25 , 2002 file photo, a Congolese child is given a polio vaccination at a relief camp near Gisenyi, Rwanda. The World Health Organization says Zambia has reported its first local case of polio since 1995 in a 2-year-old boy paralysed by a virus derived from the vaccine. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)
October 23, 2019 - 4:47 am

Un Says 1St Local Polio Case Found In Zambia Since 1995

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says Zambia has reported its first local case of polio since 1995, in a 2-year-old boy paralyzed by a virus derived from the vaccine. In a report this week, WHO said the case was detected on the border with Congo, which has reported 37 cases of polio...
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October 18, 2019 - 4:29 am

European Medicines Agency Recommends Licensing Ebola Vaccine

LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended that the world's first Ebola vaccine be approved, after it was administered to hundreds of thousands of people in Africa. The agency on Friday described licensing the vaccine as "an important step toward relieving the burden of this deadly...
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Esther Duflo, left, and Abhijit Banerjee speak during a news conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Banerjee and Duflo, along with Harvard's Michael Kremer, were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering new ways to alleviate global poverty. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Associated Press
October 14, 2019 - 4:26 pm

Economists Who Study Poverty Win Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn't in the fight to reduce global poverty. The award went to MIT's Abhijit...
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Mitch Kelly
October 02, 2019 - 7:41 am

Nevada Scores Poorly On "States That Vaccinate" Study

As the country enters into what's expected to be a rough flu season, a new study has been released that ranks Nevada low as far as the percentage of people who get vaccinated.
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Associated Press
September 30, 2019 - 9:09 am

Health District Now Offering Flu Shots

Southern Nevadans may not be exchanging their summer attire for sweaters just yet, but the fall season is officially here, and that means it’s the perfect time for people to protect themselves and their families from the flu.
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B.K. Morris, a nurse with MedStar Visiting Nurses Association, gives a flu shot to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar during a news conference in Washington. The flu forecast is cloudy and it's too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, not to delay vaccination. (AP Photo/Lauran Neergaard)
Associated Press
September 26, 2019 - 9:50 am

Health Officials: It's Time To Give Flu Vaccine Another Shot

WASHINGTON (AP) — The flu forecast is cloudy and it's too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday not to delay vaccination. While the vaccine didn't offer much protection the past two years, specialists have fine-tuned the recipe in...
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In this Saturday, July 13, 2019 file photo, a child is vaccinated against Ebola in Beni, Congo. The World Health Organization says Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 Congo will start using a second experimental Ebola vaccine, as efforts to stop the spiraling outbreak are stalled and Doctors Without Borders criticizes vaccination efforts to date. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)
September 23, 2019 - 3:47 am

2Nd Ebola Vaccine To Be Used In Congo, As Un Efforts Slammed

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization on Monday announced Congo will start using a second experimental Ebola vaccine, as efforts to stop the deadly outbreak are stalled and Doctors Without Borders criticizes vaccination efforts to date. Since this outbreak was declared in August 2018, more...
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September 19, 2019 - 5:08 am

Philippines Declares New Polio Outbreak After 19 Years

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine health officials declared a polio outbreak in the country on Thursday, nearly two decades after the World Health Organization declared it to be free of the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said at a news...
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A health worker vaccinates a child against malaria in Homabay County, western Kenya, Friday Sept.13, 2019. The vaccine is the world's first for malaria and has been rolled out in Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi by the World Health Organisation. (AP Photo/Joseph Oduor)
September 13, 2019 - 11:39 am

Kenya Becomes 3Rd Country To Roll Out Malaria Vaccine

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Health authorities in Kenya on Friday started administering doses of the world's only licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission rates. Kenya became the third African country to introduce the vaccine, after Malawi and Ghana. The aim is...
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September 13, 2019 - 3:02 am

Kenya Becomes 3Rd Country To Roll Out Malaria Vaccine

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Health authorities in Kenya on Friday started administering doses of the world's only licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission rates. Kenya became the third African country to introduce the vaccine, after Malawi and Ghana. The aim is...
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