Check out the reviews of Mnookin’s new book, The Panic Virus, in the New York Times and Washington Post.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/health/views/29zuger.html

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Check out this infographic on polio http://www.good.is/post/eradicating-polio/

After more than 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are now "This Close" to eradicating polio, and a wide array of public figures and celebrities have signed on to help Rotary spread the word. Headlined by Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, this diverse lineup of influential leaders and personalities includes Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, action movie star Jackie Chan, conservationist Jane Goodall, premier violinist Itzhak…

This year, for the first time, countries across the WHO regions of Africa, Americas, Eastern Mediterranean, Europe and the Western Pacific are taking part in simultaneous immunization weeks. This unprecedented collaborated effort between the regions is building public and professional awareness of the value of immunization as well as saving lives.

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Avec comme slogan «Le 1er anniversaire: le moment idéal pour offrir un cadeau durable», l’Office fédéral de la santé en Suisse publique va promouvoir la vaccination contre cette maladie.



Selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), à l’origine de la semaine de vaccination pour l’Europe, la couverture vaccinale doit atteindre 95% des enfants de moins de deux ans pour que la rougeole puisse être considérée comme éteinte.



Or ce taux n’était que de 75% en 2008,…

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation :

Check out Vaccines Today - the new online vaccines portal. 

The site was launched last week and aims to become the major hub for vaccine-related news and information in Europe. It's interactive so you can post comments, share videos on the YouTube channel or follow the…

A month after the first deliveries of its new "moving warehouse", health officials in Senegal's Saint Louis district are excited about the prospect of huge efficiencies in the supply of vaccines and medicines to health centres. "It is still early days", said Dr Mamadou Diop, the Regional Medical Officer, "but it is already clear that this integrated system will help us meet demand for vaccines and medicines much more quickly and efficiently than we have in the past." In the past,…

BCG vaccine, the only currently available vaccine against TB and despite its limitations, is still one of the most important weapons in the arsenal against TB in young children.

There are currently new TB vaccine candidates in the pipeline that are being tested either to replace the BCG vaccine or to boost it. However, these new vaccines need to be carefully tested in humans and if effective, it will take years before these results are available.…

Please be informed that the slides of the presentations of the conference “For a Healthy Future of Our Children – Childhood Immunisation” held in Budapest 3-4 March 2011 and the conclusions form the conference has become available on the web site of the National Center for Epidemiology.(Hungary).

http://www.oek.hu/oek.web?to=1894&nid=1005&pid=1&lang=hun

Check out this web site  - a lot of useful information on Immunization, Vaccines and Diseases!

http://www.historyofvaccines.org/

• Take a look at the future of immunization:…

WHO/Europe's Dr Rebecca Martin was quoted at length in a recent article on MedConnect about WHO's response to continuing measles outbreaks in the European Region, including outbreaks this year in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. France, as we've mentioned previously on this site, has already had more than 1,000 cases of measles since 2011 began. Of course, WHO is urging people to get vaccinated against the disease…

http://zdoggmd.com/2011/02/immunize/

This year, we mark a century of women as agents of change to improve their lives, communities and health.

Equal access to the benefits of science and technology empowers women to take control of their health. Specific advances in medical products and health technologies have revolutionized women's health over the past decades.  Such advances have empowered women to take control of their own health, inlcuding preventing illness among women through human…

The African Region of the World Health Organization will observe the first ever African Vaccination Week (AVW) during the last week of April, coinciding with EIW and other vaccination weeks around the world. According to the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, "The goal of the African Vaccination Week initiative is to strengthen immunization programmes in the Region by drawing attention to, and increasing awareness of the importance, the need and the right of all persons to be…

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am in Budapest attending the 'For a healthy future of our children - childhood immunization' conference, hosted by the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. DG SANCO, ECDC and WHO are joint hosts, under the auspices in the Hungarian Ministry of National Resources. About 30 Member States are represented here. The meeting has provided a particularly useful platform on which countries have shared their knowledge, challenges and…

Since the last blog post about a handful of measles cases in Denmark, the European Region has seen a lot more trouble in the form of measles outbreaks. Countries across the Region, including Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have all reported cases since the beginning of 2011. France experienced nearly 1000 measles cases just in the month of January.

Measles outbreaks and epidemics are underscoring the…