The medical strategy involves ringfencing patients by vaccinating all the people they may have infected, and then vaccinating a second "ring" of contacts around each of those potential sufferers.
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By vaccinating yourself, you may actually protect others, as well.
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The support for vaccinating pets was echoed by other agencies.
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"We collectively can prevent these things from happening by vaccinating."
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He said his staff do not discourage parents from vaccinating.
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Other recommendations include leaving wild animals alone and vaccinating pets.
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Ebola spreads easily through bodily fluids and the medical strategy involves vaccinating all the people a patient may have infected and then vaccinating a second "ring" of contacts around each of those potential sufferers.
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Meanwhile, officials have been vaccinating all the reindeer in the region.
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And I won't judge you if vaccinating your child scares you.
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It wasn't the first time CBP said no to vaccinating migrants.
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"The overwhelming majority of families and adults are vaccinating," Parker said.
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Well, I think vaccinating the animals is hard to argue against.
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Manitoba and Quebec are going to start vaccinating boys soon, too.
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Essentially, vaccinating healthy children also provides protection for those who are more vulnerable; so, you're not just hurting your own child by not vaccinating them, but you're also hurting children who aren't healthy enough to get immunized.
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The country's success follows an intense program based around vaccinating vulnerable children.
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"We need to tackle this risk in people not vaccinating," Hancock added.
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And when you vaccinate your kids — you're definitely vaccinating your kids, right?
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"Vaccinating a child can be a real obstacle course here," he said.
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For years, people have argued about over the value of vaccinating children.
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But in the UK, the discussion around vaccinating boys has been ongoing.
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Two beliefs: Once an epidemic is underway, vaccinating won't have an impact.
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Their mother is opposed to vaccinating, and I'm in favor of it.
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The ward will focus on treating and vaccinating koalas in that state.
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"Parents should not avoid vaccinating their children for fear of autism," he said.
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Then they asked them how that affected their opinions on vaccinating a child.
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Perry said she is hoping to start vaccinating immigrants at the camp soon.
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Officials have blamed the spread on parents who decided against vaccinating their children.
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Health authorities in Uganda had been vaccinating health workers in anticipation of seeing cases.
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There is plenty of misinformation and myths that dissuade patients and friends from vaccinating.
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There is some disparity over the number of other countries vaccinating boys against HPV.
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He encourages vaccinating against the infection that caused his son's sepsis, which was pneumococcus.
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Researchers calculate that vaccinating children produces cost savings of more than $12,000 per child.
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Health officials are tracking and vaccinating those who came into contact with the patients.
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Neighboring Rwanda, Uganda and South Sudan began vaccinating health workers weeks or months ago.
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In India, for example, the rates of vaccinating girls are lower than in boys.
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WHO is bringing in 3,500 additional vaccines and will begin vaccinating more people on Friday.
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But what has also become clear is that vaccinating only children is no longer sufficient.
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The ministry statement said Jeju had stopped vaccinating against the fever nearly two decades ago.
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Authorities this week began vaccinating health workers and people who had contact with confirmed cases.
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Concerning yourself with malware and preventing its installation is like vaccinating a population against disease.
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Vaccinating children against measles and other preventable health threats is fortunately still the societal norm.
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Vaccinating parents are protecting the most vulnerable, as keepers of "the herd," so thank you.
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One is a comedian with no medical training who has raised doubts about vaccinating children.
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They are not not vaccinating their kids because they are afraid of autism,'' she continued.
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But there's little evidence to suggest that vaccinating visitors to the United States would be effective.
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Those countries have been asked to start vaccinating health workers and watch out for the virus.
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It came again with subsequent food deliveries, filling her with dread about vaccinating her infant son.
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There have already been massive public health incidents that resulted from parents not vaccinating their children.
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Hurtado splashed with liquid dumped from balcony by protestor of bill restricting exemption for vaccinating children.
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Matt Bevin, who said he made sure his nine children caught chickenpox instead of vaccinating them.
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Still, the paper led to some parents not vaccinating their children for measles, mumps and rubella.
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" "There seems to be an overarching depression that was driven by years of not vaccinating people properly.
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He has questioned their safety and stoked fear that vaccinating babies might contribute to rising autism rates.
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But in 1988 the WHO launched an effort to eradicate the disease by vaccinating children en masse.
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By the numbers: DRC says they've vaccinated 13,844 people since they began vaccinating people on Aug. 8.
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So while some parents opt out of vaccinating their kids, other people simply slip through the cracks.
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The anti-vaccination forces ultimately won, voting to bar doctors from vaccinating foster children during initial examinations.
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They lived in Texas, where state law prohibits pharmacists from vaccinating anyone under the age of 7.
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The foundation is still working on vaccinating children in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where polio cases still persist.
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This is a leap from the 79 percent of Republicans who find vaccinating children to be important.
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To avoid this conflict, governments employ "personal belief" exemptions allowing concerned parents to dodge vaccinating their children.
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A team of veterinarians and park rangers is vaccinating animals to prevent further spread of the disease.
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The organization has played a major role in getting parents to delay or avoid vaccinating their children.
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That means swiftly vaccinating anyone who has come into contact with an Ebola sufferer and contacts of theirs.
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FAO, which has been helping farmers with seeds and tools and vaccinating livestock, is appealing for $86 million.
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The latest immunisation push aims to finish vaccinating every child in the country by the end of May.
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Matt Bevin (R) said Tuesday that he deliberately exposed his nine children to chickenpox rather than vaccinating them.
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The Philippines has long had difficulty vaccinating its people, said Katherine O'Brien, the W.H.O.'s director of immunization.
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In this country, resistance to vaccinating children has emerged even among some who are well educated and affluent.
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So must international health workers now do double duty, vaccinating children while registering their parents to vote, too?
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The U.S. unfortunately doesn't seem to have any concrete data on how often owners are vaccinating their pets.
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The Ethicist My sister and her ex are against vaccinating their kids, and I completely disagree with them.
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Most states in the US allow parents to skip vaccinating their kids because of their religion or personal beliefs.
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Other adults who'd missed vaccines as children described catching up on shots and their commitment to vaccinating their kids.
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These include quickly and safely burying victims, tracing the contacts of those infected and vaccinating people in affected areas.
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These are developed economies where information is easily available, and where parents are increasingly apprehensive about vaccinating their children.
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Religious leaders, including those in the Catholic Church, have said this should not deter parents from vaccinating their children.
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FAO has remained active in Syria and helped farmers by provisioning seeds and other farm inputs and vaccinating livestock.
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Others thought parents would reject it, fearing that vaccinating young girls would somehow encourage them to start having sex.
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The flu vaccine is a must, as vaccinating children is the best protection for older people against bacterial pneumonia.
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Esvelt and his team would begin by vaccinating their mice and sequencing the DNA of the most protective antibodies.
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The plan involves vaccinating "rings" of contacts around each Ebola patient, and then a second ring around each contact.
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Vaccinating and educating children in developing and fragile nations leads to healthier economic partners and more stability around the world.
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There are definitely lots of reasons to be grateful for moms, and somewhere near the top is for vaccinating kids.
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Instead, a team of researchers found four flavors of anti-vaccine misinformation that may discourage parents from vaccinating their children.
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The irony is that, at this point in time, the bigger health risk is Americans who resist vaccinating their kids.
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The woman was also charged with not vaccinating her cats against rabies, which will require an appearance in Municipal Court.
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There's the trouble of vaccinating people, which involves international collaboration, money, and will—plus overcoming conflict, culture, and geographic obstacles.
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"By not vaccinating an individual, you could be harming the most vulnerable, very young babies and immunocompromised individuals," she said.
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Now, let me be clear: I personally favor reducing carbon emissions, vaccinating children, and making institutions more diverse and representative.
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As a result, it's likely that we are incorrectly vaccinating a significant number of the 47 million Americans over 65.
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The agency found that 84 percent of Americans say that vaccinating children is important, down from 94 percent in 2001.
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To eliminate cervical cancer, the WHO proposes vaccinating 90% of girls under the age of 15 by the year 2030.
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In many states across the country, including New York, parents are able to claim religious exemptions for vaccinating their children.
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The celebrity tattoo artist said that she will not be vaccinating her baby, abiding by her and her husband's vegan lifestyle.
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On Wednesday's episode, Bee's TBS series unveiled Full Fronterdale to make a point about vaccinating children: that it's a good thing.
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THE MEASLES resurgence around the world has been blamed on parents refusing to vaccinate their children, but is vaccinating children enough?
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It involves vaccinating contacts of cases and suspected cases, contacts of those contacts and health care and other front-line workers.
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Details: Some states — including Connecticut and Maine — are working to prevent parents from opting out of vaccinating their children, NBC reports.
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In 47 states, parents are exempted from vaccinating their children for religious reasons, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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So when, in 2015, the wild type 2 poliovirus was declared eradicated, it made sense to stop vaccinating people against it.
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The spike in cases has been driven partially by the spread of misinformation about vaccines and resulting skepticism about vaccinating children.
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The Customs and Border Protection agency's practice of not vaccinating migrant children in its custody has drawn backlash in recent weeks.
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Vaccinating the Yanomami against measles is an important first step in protecting those tribal people who have had contact with outsiders.
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Image: CDCA new case report from the Centers for Disease Control released Thursday starkly highlights the costs of not vaccinating children.
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For instance, if the vaccine is 80 percent effective, then vaccinating just 25 percent of the population provides effective herd immunity.
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Why it matters: Vaccine misinformation has spread via social media, and experts worry that it's dissuading parents from vaccinating their children.
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As long as the illness is still circulating, vaccinating yourself is still a good idea, Cynthia Li, MD previously told Refinery29.
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But the issue became personal when she found out two of the new moms in the group weren't vaccinating their children.
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This may seem to be in malice because of the dangers of not vaccinating imposes, but this is not the case.
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It involves vaccinating everyone who has had contact with an infected person, and all the contacts of those people, as well.
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Faced with no other options — except vaccinating their children — other New York parents also posted about beginning to homeschool their children.
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Influenza, for example, can be severe in young babies, and we don't start vaccinating till the child is 6 months old.
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But another consequence of the immunization scare is that many parents stopped vaccinating their children against other diseases, health officials said.
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No. "We will not be forcibly vaccinating individuals," a City Hall spokeswoman, Marcy Miranda, wrote in an email to The Times.
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The Cook County Sheriff's Office reported on Tuesday that it is investigating whether Koinis lied about vaccinating children and fabricated medical records.
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Medical scares Like many French parents, Priscille, a young mother who lives in Paris, says she is unsure about vaccinating her child.
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So when, in 2015, the wild type 2 polio virus was declared eradicated, it made sense to stop vaccinating people against it.
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It's sad to think, but I hope it doesn't take some really horrible outbreak to push the hesitant into the vaccinating camp.
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Vaccinating Nigerian infants against rotavirus can yield benefits worth a whopping $126 per dollar spent, thanks to the reduced toll of diarrhoea.
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove that the vaccinating pregnant mothers protects babies from whooping cough, the authors note.
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Take the threat of vaccine resistance: Vaccinating against preventable diseases like measles only works if 90% of a population get their shots.
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Rio de Janeiro, for one, is aggressively vaccinating its citizens in hopes of inoculating 12 million by the end of the year.
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Rossiello said she has to remind people she is not vaccinating orphans, that she is running a business, albeit in an emerging market.
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But some studies show that parents with no interest in vaccinating their sons were largely unaware of the risks HPV poses to men.
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The politics around vaccines is one thing, but why parents would be set against vaccinating their child is a much more complicated question.
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So not vaccinating people absolutely puts them at high risk of getting sick and of complications of the flu and even potentially death.
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While 279 percent of Americans surveyed in 22015 say that vaccinating children is important, that number is down from 22001 percent in 103.
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And by 2000, because of widespread vaccination, the virus was declared eliminated in the US. Researchers have long known vaccinating against measles works.
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It includes discussions of pool safety, childproofing, vaccinating or keeping a gun unloaded and in a locked place that a child can't access.
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UK scientists want to know whether it's worth vaccinating teens against a certain type of bacteria that causes meningitis called Neisseria meningitidis, seen above.
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He wrote a book in 2014 about mercury in vaccines and lobbied Congress to give parents exemptions from state requirements for vaccinating their children.
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Young nurses make regular rounds to the communal rooms on the fifth floor, checking patients' temperatures and vaccinating newborns being breastfed by their mothers.
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Over the decades tens of thousands of health-care workers have trekked through dangerous and remote areas of the world vaccinating almost 3bn children.
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In the US, where measles has also made a comeback, California banned parents from claiming their personal beliefs prevented them from vaccinating their kids.
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But most states allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children for any philosophical reason — and that's allowing measles to make a resurgence.
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The WHO said Burundi's health ministry had begun vaccinating health workers at the Gatumba border crossing point on Tuesday using the Merck's rVSV-ZEBOV.
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Though declaring the Americas free of measles is a big step, people should keep vaccinating to ensure the disease doesn't come back, experts say.
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For example, rabies can be prevented in people by vaccinating dogs and other carriers — something which can prove challenging among stray and wild animals.
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A Colorado state lawmaker is drafting legislation to eliminate an exemption that allows parents to opt out of vaccinating their children for personal reasons.
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This involves vaccinating people who have come into direct contact with individuals confirmed to have Ebola — as well as the contacts of those contacts.
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Brazil's government said it would continue its program but that it would follow Sanofi's recommendation to avoid vaccinating people who have never had dengue.
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The woman did not believe in vaccinating her child, and she failed to inform my friend of this decision, thereby putting her at risk.
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Vaccinating the asylum-seekers would protect them, many of whom are in ill health after a long detention and exhausted from the long journey.
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In such an atmosphere, standard tactics — such as vaccinating all the contacts of each case and following up over 21 days — cannot be employed.
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Vaccinating protects both your child and the children around them, including those who are too young or who, for medical reasons, can't be vaccinated.
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Vaccinating people is the least CBP could do -- and it helps to protect the people in their custody, as well as their own staff.
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Parents also might be wary of vaccinating kids against a sexually transmitted infection, as was the case with the HPV vaccine, Gray-Owen says.
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" Tech companies say they're addressing the issue Google said in a statement that it believes information discouraging parents from vaccinating their children is "concerning.
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Not vaccinating your children—Being anti-vax is extremely stupid and actively harmful, and is the rare value shared by extremely wealthy liberalsand Republicans.
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Explanations tend to highlight the fact that parents may be uncomfortable vaccinating their children for something that is associated with a sexually transmitted disease.
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Melissa, another Rockland County parent involved in the litigation, said her Buddhist views prevented her from vaccinating her children unless they became very sick.
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It was classic Bad Cutler, an inexcusable throw by a dude who looked like he'd rather be off smoking Winstons or not vaccinating his kids.
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Anita VT is an ANM who has worked in the village health center for the last 20 years, registering patients, delivering babies and vaccinating children.
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According to NBC News, people stopped vaccinating reindeer against anthrax about a decade ago, after the region had gone half a century with no outbreaks.
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Vaccinating, spaying or neutering animals is also not regulated, according to LAPA , a United Kingdom-based animal charity that advocates for homeless animals in Russia.
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Parents would still be allowed to abstain from vaccinating their children if they only take online courses or are home-schooled, according to the report.
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Kyle Mullica (D) has begun drafting a bill to eliminate an exception that allows parents to opt out of vaccinating their children for personal reasons.
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That argument is roughly equivalent to saying that a decline in the prevalence of an infectious disease means that we should stop vaccinating against it.
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Some celebrities have touted anti-vaxxer sentiment, most infamously Jenny McCarthy, but others have taken opposite stances and spoken out in favor of vaccinating children.
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Lawmakers in a half-dozen states are mulling new measures that would prohibit parents from citing religious or personal beliefs to avoid vaccinating their children.
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Tedros said emergency response teams planned to start vaccinating frontline health workers in Congo by Sunday, but Salama said the date had not been fixed.
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A vocal vaccine critic, he also said earlier this year that he and wife had actively exposed their nine children to chickenpox instead of vaccinating them.
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It's also made the basic work of controlling an outbreak — tracing the contacts of the infected, following up with them, vaccinating people at risk — particularly challenging.
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The response is costly, involving tracking over 12,000 contacts per day and vaccinating over 1,000 people per day, some at WHO's new pop-up vaccination centers.
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Vaccinating your pet helps reduce the risk of human infection, particularly if there are vulnerable members like the younger, elderly or immunosuppressed patients in your household.
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A 2014 study published in Pediatrics found that vaccinating children prevents 20 million cases of disease every year in the US, by projecting from 2009 data.
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Florian Krammer, a microbiology professor at Mount Sinai who's working on this project, joked that the team would still be vaccinating mice without the foundation's support.
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The study found that vaccinating people who have been exposed in the past would reduce their risk of being hospitalized with dengue by more than 90%.
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Edwards said required immunizations are important, because vaccinating the vast majority of children also protects those who for some reason are not protected by the shots.
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"The dangers of not vaccinating includes a resurgence in measles which we are seeing signs of today in the form of outbreaks," Hviid said by email.
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In the meantime, health workers are vaccinating another 160,000 Bangladeshi children who live in communities near to refugee settlements in the border district of Cox's Bazar.
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In most states, there are limits or outright bans on pharmacists vaccinating children, and flu vaccine clinics at schools are the exception rather than the rule.
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Washington State lawmakers have proposed a bill that would remove the ability for parents to claim philosophical exemptions when not vaccinating their child, according to CBS.
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Roving medical or burial teams have been beaten or stoned by villagers after rumors spread that they were stealing bodies for witchcraft or forcibly vaccinating children.
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is currently not vaccinating detainees against the viral disease, nor do they plan to before the upcoming flu season this fall.
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He added that even vaccinating half a population, however, could be enough to halt the spread of HPV enough to see significant declines in cancer rates.
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Given that measles is a highly contagious disease that can be fatal and that the risks of vaccination are minuscule, not vaccinating your children is wrong.
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Understanding isn't a precondition for successful intervention, they point out; we had no real grasp of virology or immunology when we began vaccinating people against smallpox.
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Put another way, the vast majority of the citizens of Hennepin County contributed to the health of their community by responsibly vaccinating themselves and their children.
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" She added that some ultra-Orthodox Jews "worry that vaccinating interrupts a divine plan for someone's life, and they don't want to interfere in God's will.
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Officials in Cook County, Chicago, are investigating whether a beloved pediatrician lied about vaccinating children and falsified records for the last 10 years of his medical career.
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But in the years since, we've come to understand that HPV causes almost all cases of cervical cancer, and vaccinating against the virus can essentially obliterate it.
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It's not as if he can wave a wand and say, 'We're going to stop vaccinating against measles, mumps, and rubella because I believe that causes autism.
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Stopping such outbreaks typically requires vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children with both the injectable vaccine, which contains killed virus that cannot mutate, and the oral vaccine.
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The bottom line: Vaccinating the world's most remote children is a significant undertaking, but it's the most effective way we know to transform communities for the better.
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Another big measles outbreak, among Minnesota-born Somalis, grew out of control because anti-vaxxers stoked autism fears in that community and people stopped vaccinating their kids.
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GAVI, an international public-private alliance that provides vaccines to poor countries, has agreed to pay $85m for vaccinating children in countries where the disease is rife.
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Experts say the developing of a useable preventative shot against the disease will not be simple, particularly due to concerns surrounding the safety of vaccinating pregnant women.
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Healthworkers are hoping to keep the virus bottled up by tracing people who may be at risk and vaccinating them and anyone else they might have infected.
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"When a vaccine is fully effective on 50% or more of the people who are vaccinated, you need to primarily focus on vaccinating young children," said Singer.
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Some of the reasons parents give for not vaccinating their children include being too busy and not getting strong recommendations from their medical providers, according to Schaffner.
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The camp is filthy — state health officials have called for its closure — but aid organizations run an efficient clinic, vaccinating children against mumps, measles, rubella and hepatitis.
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It came just a week after the vaccination committee recommended extending the HPV immunization program to boys after it reviewed the evidence for vaccinating boys since 123.
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They also are administering the experimental rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine using the ring method (vaccinating the people who were thought to have been exposed to an infected person).
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We want people to worry about measles when there's very little measles around, so they will take the precaution of vaccinating their children before it's imminently necessary.
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Vaccinating your pet helps reduce the risk of human infection, particularly in more vulnerable family members like young children, the elderly and immunosuppressed individuals in your household.
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"Vaccinating pregnant women with Tdap is the most important thing we can do to help protect babies during the first few months of life," Dr. Curtis said.
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"That's why it's become so much a matter of current discussion," Schaffner said, adding that the United States does a good job of vaccinating against the mumps.
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Especially not when one of the most prevalent excuses for not vaccinating itself comes from a deep-seated hatred of and lack of understanding about disabled people.
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O'Leary said most parents who opt out of vaccinating their children and use the religion exception actually have a personal-belief objection rather than a religious one.
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But recent research published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that vaccinating women older than 25 can help protect them from the most cancer-causing strains.
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The researchers found that parents who were concerned about vaccinating their children scored similarly to parents who weren't when it came to the morals of harm and fairness.
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Peach also scares parents away from vaccinating their children by citing deaths that were disclosed during clinical trials that had nothing to do with the vaccine, she said.
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The US started vaccinating for mumps in 1967 and there's been a 99% reduction in mumps cases since then, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The anti-vaccine movement has resulted in more parents opting out of vaccinating their kids, and that has resulted in new outbreaks of highly infectious diseases like measles.
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Oliver carefully debunked every one of the anti-vaccination myths some parents refuse to drop and noted that would be vaccinating his son, who was born premature. Surprise!
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The recent uptick in preventable infectious disease-related morbidity and mortality has been directly linked to the increasing rate of parents who opt out of vaccinating their children.
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Still, medical decisions for minor children are the responsibility of their custodial parents, and vaccinating her children behind her back would violate her right to make these decisions.
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This hinders efforts to contain the deadly virus by quarantining suspected cases and tracing, vaccinating and monitoring anyone who had contact with a person infected with the virus.
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The caller acknowledged the problem of viruses like smallpox and polio, that have been mostly eradicated by vaccines, but wondered what she should do about vaccinating her kids.
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"This mother did not believe in vaccinating, because she felt that the flu vaccine was not effective and she was concerned about vaccine safety," Dr. Whitley-Williams said.
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Some areas are off-limits to healthworkers due to the security risks, making it more difficult to ring-fence each Ebola case by vaccinating all the patient's contacts.
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It is ideal to begin vaccinating pets as the maternal antibodies are wearing off (determining this timing is impractical, though) to prevent pets from being exposed to a disease.
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Nearly three years ago, with infectious disease rates ticking up, California enacted a fiercely contested law barring parents from citing personal or religious beliefs to avoid vaccinating their children.
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The anti-vaccination conspiracy theory that vaccinating children can cause autism came to the fore in the early 2000s after a discredited doctor published a fraudulent and false study.
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Villagers also described frequent abuses by the security forces and predatory behavior marring nearly every contact with government — demands for bribes for acquiring ID cards, vaccinating animals, passing checkpoints.
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In addition, the findings should ease concerns that vaccinating women during pregnancy might make the infants' vaccinations at two, four and six months less effective, Maldonado said by email.
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The team also adopted a strategy of "ring vaccination" — identifying and isolating each case and vaccinating only those exposed to the infected individual, instead of immunizing the entire population.
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Spiegel, a former senior official at the UN Agency for Refugees, said it could undermine longstanding US efforts to convince other countries to double down on vaccinating their citizens.
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When we don't see the devastation caused by vaccine-preventable diseases on a daily basis, some people discount the vital need to keep their families safe by vaccinating them.
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In the U.S., exemption requirements range from philosophical objection (just checking a box in Minnesota) to signing an affidavit that vaccinating your children is contrary to your religious beliefs.
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No other cases have been reported in the city and the Congolese ministry of health and the WHO have been busy vaccinating anyone who could possibly have touched the pastor.
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Washington (CNN)The Oregon state House passed a bill Monday that would limit the options for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, including on religious or philosophical grounds.
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The Stephans have said they were shocked by the charges, which they believe were laid because the Crown wanted to make an example of them for not vaccinating their kids.
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A free vaccine clinic was scheduled for Wednesday, and Day said he hoped the new emergency declaration would send a strong message to parents who had avoided vaccinating their children.
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But what this recent research showed was that the "reduction of Western-diet-associated inflammation" could be obtained by "immunizing" or vaccinating against bacteria with a protein called called ompk36.
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Babies as young as 236 months of age can get the vaccine, and vaccinating other children and adults can help protect newborns who are too young to get the shot.
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And So Did The Anti-Vaccine Movement Since its birth in the 1990s, the movement against vaccinating children has, for the most part, been largely dismissed as an extreme fringe.
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For example, if a doctor or nurse were vaccinating multiple children in a row, they may have kept the vaccine out of the refrigerator too long, causing it to deteriorate.
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That means if you can fully stop the chain of transmission between people—by vaccinating practically everyone who could be exposed to it, for instance—you can eradicate measles completely.
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" Due to the influx of cats, the MHS "is extremely busy vaccinating, microchipping, spaying/neutering, and medically and behaviorally evaluating these 34 cats in addition to its already full shelter.
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There's no link between autism and the vaccine that prevents measles, mumps and rubella, according to a new study that challenges a push by some parents against vaccinating their children.
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After meeting U.N. officials about the humanitarian crisis, Prime Minister Abadi ordered emergency measures including setting up mobile clinics, vaccinating children, dispatching water tanks, and supplying electricity within five days.
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We see this in rabies —one of the disease threats identified by CDC — where vaccinating animals against the disease is mere fraction of the cost of treatments in infected people.
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The claims and promises can spread virally to millions of people on social networks, the same way that anti-vaxxers have advanced baseless notions about the dangers of vaccinating children.
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The caller, a pregnant woman who identified as Kristin from San Jose, California, said she had avoided vaccinating her 3-year-old daughter by not taking her to the doctor.
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In another study published in the journal Vaccine in 2018, postpartum mothers were engaged in "motivational interviewing," during which the interviewer explores a patient's feelings, readiness and confidence in vaccinating.
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In the video, a woman named Shanna Cartmell talks about her decision to stop vaccinating her children after she read a book that said leukemia is a side effect of vaccination.
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One example in Britain is people born in the few years after 1998, when a fraudulent study linking a measles vaccine with autism scared many parents away from vaccinating their children.
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Anti-vaccine activists in the U.K. Image: APThe movement against vaccinating children has, for the most part, been dismissed by pretty much anyone who matters as a bunch of fringe whackadoodles.
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While every parent has the right to make personal decisions about their children's health care, parents need to know that not vaccinating their babies can also have scary and dangerous consequences.
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However, it could be hard to turn this improvement into policy because doctors may be reluctant to wait even a few weeks before vaccinating babies against this important disease, Petri said.
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While vaccinating people against this disease is safe and easy, some neighborhoods in the country believe vaccinations are being used to carry out a conspiracy against Muslims or aid the CIA.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Burundi has started vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
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Another Pew Research Center survey in 2017 showed that a solid majority of Americans, 88%, believe that the benefits of vaccinating their children against measles, mumps and rubella outweigh the risks.
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Some anti-vaccination activists have targeted pregnant women on Facebook with messages about the effects of vaccinating their children, and third parties offered mental health treatments to addiction support group members.
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"In vaccinating frontline health workers against Ebola, even before Uganda detects a single case, health authorities are being cautious having learned bitter lessons from previous outbreaks," the World Health Organization said.
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MANGINA, Congo (Reuters) - Congolese officials and the World Health Organization began vaccinating health workers against the deadly Ebola virus on Wednesday, to try to halt an outbreak in Congo's volatile east.
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Acknowledging the vaccine's less-than-optimal effectiveness, Schuchat reminded the committee that "vaccinating children can be lifesaving against the flu," as the vaccine showed 59% effectiveness in the youngest age group.
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Alternately, the Fed might be vaccinating the economy against risks it judges as real and continuing, based on the pullback in global manufacturing, weak inflation and signs of bond market skittishness.
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"This is an important reminder to food service establishments that they should consider vaccinating their food-handling employees against hepatitis A," said Salt Lake County Health Department Executive Director Gary Edwards.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Officials began vaccinating health workers and others against Ebola on Monday in Bikoro, where an outbreak of the disease was declared at the beginning of May.
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The organization is seeking to raise at least $7.4 billion from international donors and the private sector so it can save up to 8 million lives while vaccinating 300 million children.
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The agency's plan includes distributing seeds and animal feed, vaccinating animals, delivering 100,000 sheep and goats to vulnerable households and giving farmers cash for bringing weakened and unproductive livestock to slaughter.
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The bomb struck around noon Tuesday, just as aid workers were vaccinating children in the camp for measles and screening them for malnutrition, according to a spokeswoman for Doctors Without Borders.
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As Wirecutter's pets writer, I've written about what to buy before adopting a cat or dog, how to choose a pet food, and the importance of vaccinating and microchipping your pet.
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The Supreme Court ruled more than a century ago that mandatory vaccination was legal, although the court drew a distinction between punishing citizens for refusing and actually vaccinating them by force.
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The teenage vaccine advocate was describing what's become a familiar issue on Facebook: groups using the site to try to convince parents not to vaccinate, or to delay vaccinating, their children.
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"Sadly, providers may feel low urgency about vaccinating boys," says Ashish A. Deshmukh, an assistant research professor at the University of Florida college of public health who studies HPV-associated cancers.
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In a lengthy Instagram post showing off her growing baby belly, the celebrity tattoo artist said that she will not be vaccinating her baby, abiding by her and her husband's vegan lifestyle.
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"Nicole Wilson, 32, told the paper she and her boyfriend were "already thinking" about moving out of Washington to avoid vaccinating her unborn child, saying of health officials: "I'll tell you something.
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Vaccinating boys means that fewer will catch the virus and transmit it to girls; whether that is worth the cost depends on how many of those girls have already received the vaccine.
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Instead of braving group dates or cooking up a storm in a quick-fire challenge, the women tackle tasks like vaccinating livestock, planting trees, and selling produce and pottery by the roadside.
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This is the main argument that is used to shame parents who wish to refuse certain vaccinations for their children: by not vaccinating, they put the health of the "herd" at risk.
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Although unconvinced by Fidden's global genocide theory, both are avowed anti-vaxxers—believing that vaccinating children against common diseases like measles actually engenders the spread of disease, rather than being a preventative.
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But I am very troubled by backward steps we have taken in vaccinating children against diseases we thought were eradicated years ago, and in the public health threat posed by gun violence.
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" At a press briefing about the fund-raiser, Mr. Trump talked about vaccinating his son, Barron, then almost 234: "What we've done with Barron, we've taken him on a very slow process.
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California is one of four states that do not allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children because of religious or personal beliefs (Maine, Mississippi and West Virginia are the others).
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Vaccination rates in Clark County are low partly because Washington allows parents to opt out of vaccinating their children not only for medical and religious reasons but for "philosophical" and "personal" ones.
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I want to take opportunities small and large to ensure that mothers and their families flourish, whether that's through helping a colleague navigate parental leave, donating diapers, vaccinating my child or voting.
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Vaccination rates in Clark County are low partly because Washington allows parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, not only for medical and religious reasons but for "philosophical" and "personal" ones.
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In this case, after vaccinating frontline health workers and other first responders, equality suggests a random selection, such as a lottery, among those in the highest risk category of dying from coronavirus.
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"Amazon is surfacing and recommending products and content that discourage parents from vaccinating their children, a direct threat to public health, and reversing progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases," Schiff's letter reads.
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The implicit message was that dog owners should keep vaccinating their pets against diseases like distemper and canine hepatitis because any concerns that the animals would develop autism after the injections were unfounded.
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The three-shot course of vaccination protects against the most-dangerous strains of HPV and the CDC recommends vaccinating both boys and girls against the virus at the age of 11 or 12.
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House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) wrote to Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos demanding answers on why the platform is pushing products and content that can discourage parents from vaccinating their children.
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Congo's health ministry said in a statement Thursday that field teams, tasked with identifying and vaccinating those who have come into contact with Ebola victims, are routinely harassed by groups of young people.
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Its less efficient to vaccinate large numbers of people who have already been infected, but vaccinating some in the interest of protecting all those that are still at risk is worthwhile, Ivers said.
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Lawmakers pushing for this argue the high cost of vaccinating the population for free pales in comparison to the cost of failing to do so and having the virus resurge in the future.
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It scares me that those who provide primary-care medicine might be, at best, tacitly supporting patients who are not vaccinating their children, or, at worst, spreading falsehoods about vaccines to their patients.
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For example, some parents who want to build up a child's "natural immunity" by not vaccinating him or her may put their children at risk because the severity of an illness is unpredictable.
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A wide effort to bring the outbreak under control by vaccinating more than 10 million people in DRC was due to start this week after delays due to shortages of vaccine and syringes.
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Oregon is one of 16 states where parents can claim a moral reason for not vaccinating their child with the mandated and highly effective measles, mumps and rubella shot before they enroll in school.
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The unique approach to immunization meant that instead of vaccinating entire populations to prevent illness, the limited supply of shots could be distributed among the people most at risk: the contacts of the infected.
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The reports arrive amid an ongoing measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest that's reignited conversations about exemption laws that allow parents or guardians to opt out of vaccinating children for personal or philosophical reasons.
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The House passed a full CHIP authorization bill in November but that bill makes cuts to Obamacare's Prevention and Public Health Fund—which covers things like vaccinating kids—in order to pay for CHIP.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has started vaccinating people living in urban areas to contain the worst cholera outbreak to hit the country in a decade which has left 49 people dead and infected thousands more.
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"Vaccinating people at risk of exposure is the most effective tool we have to prevent the spread of hepatitis A infection during an outbreak," said CDPH director Dr. Karen Smith, in a written statement.
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"We are going to give families a finite amount of time for a parent to say, O.K., I am going to start vaccinating my child and adhere to the catch-up schedule," she said.
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The annual rate of infected people in the U.S. has been steadily rising, however, since fewer people are vaccinating their children amid widely debunked anti-vaccination propaganda that claims vaccines are associated with autism.
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"If you have pockets of parents not vaccinating and they all live close together, then even relatively low numbers of nonvaccinated children can become problematic, as they could potentially infect each other," she said.
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Andrew Wakefield's research purporting to link vaccines to autism was discredited two decades ago, but it continues to circulate and infect, frightening parents into not vaccinating their children, and fueling the resurgence of measles.
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This means better nutrition, better sanitation and better procedures to protect farms from pests and diseases - washing hands and changing shoes before entering a farm, buying and selling healthy animals and vaccinating them regularly.
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Most malaria deaths are in Africa, where last month the WHO announced a large scale pilot project to start vaccinating some 360,000 children a year in three African countries with the world's first malaria vaccine.
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The paper, led by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, was designed to tease out which morals parents who were hesitant about vaccines held most dear when making personal decisions, including about vaccinating their kids.
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CDC says there's no benefit to vaccinating twice in a season, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which sets vaccine policy in the US, hasn't changed its guidance yet to reflect the new research.
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"If you go back many decades ago when we weren't vaccinating, of course there were probably more outbreaks, but in my memory, I don't know of a measles outbreak that was this significant," he said.
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Not eligible to be drafted into the war in Vietnam, he joined the Peace Corps, "digging toilets and vaccinating children" in Kenya, and would later open a residential care center for people with developmental disabilities.
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In fact, we have already seen the price we all pay for not vaccinating children, with recent outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough across the U.S. all directly related to parents' refusals to vaccinate.
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The first and largest internationally coordinated private-sector support of a public health initiative, PolioPlus had an initial fundraising target of $120 million and a goal of vaccinating all of the world's children by 623.
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The real Catherine took that belief to the masses, vaccinating millions of Russians in a radical act that helped cement her rule as a golden age — a reality the show does not address at all.
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Under the law, parents who do not provide their kindergartens with evidence that they've received advice from a doctor about vaccinating their children could face charges of up to 2,22015 euros (equivalent to about $285,22).
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Under the law, parents who do not provide their kindergartens with evidence that they've received advice from a doctor about vaccinating their children could face charges of up to 2,500 euros (equivalent to about $2,800).
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JAKARTA, July 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia on Monday began re-vaccinating nearly 200 children who received fake versions of imported inoculations from a drug-counterfeiting ring broken up last month after operating for more than a decade.
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One protester holding a sign that read "11 vaccinations = poison," which references a recent policy that makes 11 childhood vaccinations compulsory, told BuzzFeed News that he had come to Paris to spread awareness around vaccinating children.
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Because it's well-known that Zika does the most damage in the first trimester of a pregnancy, Fauci stressed that vaccinating girls before they reach puberty in areas hard-hit by Zika is the ultimate goal.
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A key task for health workers responding to the outbreak is known as contact tracing, which involves tracking down everyone an infected person came into contact with, and either vaccinating them, tracking their health, or both.
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A study they conducted found exposure to an anti-vaccine website for just five to ten minutes not only increased fears about the risks of vaccinations but also decreased their concerns about not vaccinating their child.
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"The big turning point, the big lightbulb moment, was when I was in a car with a bunch of wellness bloggers and one of them said, 'I would never dream of vaccinating my kids,'" she said.
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Cross is vaccinating her pre-teens with a shot that can prevent many different cancers"Even though I'm with sane mind, I'm also a mother, and that the internet is ripe with terrifying stories," Cross said.
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Details: According to a tweet from Peter Salama, the World Health Organization's deputy director-general for emergency preparedness and response, health workers plan to begin vaccinating people in affected areas of North Kivu starting on Wednesday.
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One risk of vaccinating large numbers of people before a vaccine has been tested thoroughly is "immune enhancement," in which the vaccine combines with viral components to cause an allergic reaction or a more severe infection.
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In October, the World Health Organization put out an update citing new cases of H7N9 infection as cold weather set in and noting that poultry farmers were vaccinating flocks against both this virus and other strains.
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"Young children are very good at spreading infections," said the lead author, Pia Hardelid, a lecturer at University College London, "so by vaccinating them, you are protecting infants and other members of the household as well."
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There has led to a spike in the virus in recent years in the US, with a trend in parents not vaccinating their children over unfounded fears that the vaccines cause autism, according to the CDC.
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Jehan Mouhsen, above, is pregnant and waiting in New York for her husband, a Syrian doctor who played a crucial role vaccinating more than a million children in his country as polio was on the rise.
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Chicago officials are investigating a doctor's 'cryptic' suicide note that indicates he may have lied about vaccinating children and even fabricated medical recordsA DC elementary school accidentally gave the wrong second-grader to a child-welfare worker
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Malawi has started vaccinating children under 22020 years of age, and Kenya and Ghana will begin using the vaccine in the coming weeks, with health ministries in these countries deciding where it will be used, WHO said.
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The real test is coming this summer: the team plans to test whether vaccinating with a strain of the H3N2 flu virus that circulated in 2007 protects study participants against another H3N2 strain that circulated in 2013.
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In the meantime, O'Meara said activists are fighting tooth and nail for change, hoping to educate the public about the importance of vaccinating, spaying or neutering strays and ultimately instilling a stronger adoption culture within the country.
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"Antonio's Friends," as the group is known, have made a pact to continue to care for the West Loop cat colony, feeding and vaccinating the felines, building kitty shelters and spaying and neutering all of the cats.
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An analysis of America's programme, published in 2011, concluded that gaining an extra year of healthy life by vaccinating boys cost eight times more if three-quarters of girls are covered than if only a fifth are.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccinating infants at 20013 months of age and women in the third trimester of each pregnancy to protect the child until they are old enough to be vaccinated.
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Here's a snapshot of 10 urgent health issues, according to the United Nations' public health agency: Not vaccinating when you can One of the most controversial recent health topics in the US is now an international concern.
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I take all the standard precautions to safeguard against the sniffles, by vaccinating and practicing sensible hand washing (while still largely avoiding hand sanitizers), but there's still a lot more to do to keep sickness at bay.
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Driving the news: DRC officials now are vaccinating with 33,220 doses of the experimental rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine, wielding it as a ring vaccine where the circle of people in contact with the infected are vaccinated as well.
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Seven advertisers told the publication that they reached out to YouTube after discovering that their advertisements appeared on videos with titles like "Mom Researches Vaccines, Discovers Vaccination Horrors and Goes Vaccine Free," which advocates against vaccinating children.
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The most commonly stated reasons for not vaccinating were that it was too expensive or that their pets never interacted with other animals (both 17 percent); 10 percent said they had simply never gotten around to it.
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The notion that there are two opposing sides obscures a large middle ground occupied by up to one-quarter of parents, who believe in vaccinating their children but, like the Imamuras, choose to do so more gradually.
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As the Verge noted, California has also restricted parents' ability to claim personal belief as a reason for not vaccinating their children, though many parents were seemingly able to convince doctors to sign off on medical exemptions instead.
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Pan, a pediatrician and lawmaker, led the California legislature's response to a 2015 measles outbreak that started in Disneyland, ultimately ending the ability of parents to opt out of vaccinating their kindergartners based on religion or personal beliefs.
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The situation is so serious that lawmakers in six states — Colorado, Arizona, New Jersey, Washington, New York and Maine — have authored or co-sponsored bills to make it harder for parents to avoid vaccinating their school-age children.
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In contrast to previous Ebola outbreaks, health workers have moved quickly to halt the spread of the virus by vaccinating everybody who has had contact with Ebola patients, and everybody who has had contact with those primary contacts.
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Cities have not kept up their mosquito control programs, allowing mosquito-spread diseases to flourish, while health officials in countries where yellow fever is common have not been routinely vaccinating their citizens, since outbreaks had become less frequent.
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Seven different advertisers said they weren't aware their ads were appearing on videos like "Mom Researches Vaccines, Discovers Vaccination Horrors and Goes Vaccine Free," which advocates against vaccinating children, and reached out to YouTube to pull the programmatic placements.
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Parents opting out of vaccinating their children are partly to blame for the recent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in the US. Kelly's production team did a decent job minimizing Jones's ideas, and clearly labeled them as false.
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The W.H.O. also wants to shift to immunizing as many people in each target area as possible, instead of relying solely on its current tactic: "ring vaccinating" the immediate contacts of each known case, along with health care workers.
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Health workers fighting against the second worst Ebola epidemic in history are now implementing a "ring" strategy, vaccinating anyone directly exposed to known cases of Ebola, and a second ring of those exposed to people in the first ring.
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Our personal medical records are no one's business, and why we would feel it important for us to explore all our options when it comes to vaccinating our child, is also no one's business - regardless of what I post on Instagram.
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The U.S. won't be vaccinating migrant families in holding centers ahead of this year's flu season, despite calls from doctors to boost efforts to fight the infection that's killed at least three children at detention facilities in the past year.
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"I am writing out of my concern that YouTube [owned by Google] is surfacing and recommending messages that discourage parents from vaccinating their children, a direct threat to public health, and reversing progress made in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases," Schiff wrote.
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The World Health Organisation, which has been vaccinating Africans against the disease since 2007, must now accelerate its efforts to reach the remainder who are at risk of contracting it, using the reduced dose to stretch the supply if necessary.
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He said changes the state are considering include everything from allowing teenagers to get vaccinations without having to get their parents' consent to creating a public awareness campaign geared towards expectant mothers about the implications of not vaccinating their kids.
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"DRC beat this outbreak of Ebola through traditional methods such as case investigation, contact tracing and providing care to the sick, and with new tools such as vaccinating people who were at risk of being infected by the virus," Jašarević said.
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House Republicans want to take money from a fund created by the Affordable Care Act that pays for a wide range of public health efforts, like preventing diabetes, vaccinating children, reducing the use of tobacco and fighting the opioid epidemic.
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Some legislators in Albany privately question whether one of Mr. Gottfried's top aides — his chief of staff, Wendi Paster, who has recently expressed opinions online which seem to offer qualified support for not vaccinating children — may be influencing his decision.
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Burt BloomBrooklyn To the Editor: When I started my pediatric practice nearly 40 years ago, a strong selling point in vaccination's favor was the idea of community and shared responsibility — by vaccinating your child you also protected your neighbors' children.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - World Health Organization experts recommended on Tuesday a dramatic expansion of vaccination against Ebola in Congo after a surge in cases showed that the strategy of vaccinating those known to be exposed to the disease was no longer sufficient.
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HB 2470 adds a religious exemption to the existing law requiring vaccinations, and carries an amendment that would eliminate the requirement for parents to fill out an exemption form that informed them of potential consequences of not vaccinating their children.
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It's a show about how the end of the world has already begun, and everybody behind the scenes is deciding who gets to survive — by moving to another planet, or vaccinating themselves against an alien virus, or moving into the cloud.
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The first meningitis B vaccine debuted in 2015, but doctors in the US were reluctant to endorse it as a routine shot, citing concerns about its safety and that it might not be worth vaccinating the general population, given the disease's rarity.
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In 2014, when California did allow personal exemptions, a bill passed that required parents in the state to submit proof they had discussed the risks of not vaccinating their children with a health care practitioner prior to obtaining a personal belief exemption.
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By vaccinating against more than one synthetic cathinone, they theorize, the treatment could provide wider, sustained protection against newer batches of bath salts, since the formulas are often tweaked by manufacturers in an effort to avoid detection by drug screenings and law enforcement.
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Dr. Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, the WHO representative in Uganda, said that 4,700 health workers in Uganda had already been vaccinated as a precaution and they would now begin vaccinating people who had come into contact with the family and other health care staff.
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Vaccinating even 50 percent of the estimated 90,000 children aged under 5 in the Mayadin area of Deir al-Zor would probably not be enough to stop the outbreak and might actually sow the seeds for the next outbreak, WHO's Oliver Rosenbauer said.
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Testing before vaccinating Both Ferguson and Cummings believe the risk of the vaccine leading to severe cases of the disease in some could be removed with the development of serological tests for previous exposure to dengue before people receive the three-dose vaccine.
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Louise Ivers, who has led Partners In Health's cholera vaccine efforts in Haiti, where a seven-year epidemic of cholera rages on, says there is no harm in vaccinating people who are already exposed to cholera or have natural immunity to it.
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Despite the conflict, United Nations agencies have been able to deliver aid to most parts of the country, vaccinating more than four million children against polio and 1.8 million against measles, but they have been able to address only the most urgent needs.
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I was an Oregon farm boy, and Ivy League schools wanted the occasional country bumpkin, so I milked this for all it was worth by writing a college essay about me vaccinating sheep, picking strawberries and competing in the Future Farmers of America.
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" While pet owners have their reasons for not vaccinating — such as high costs, it not being necessary, or stressful vet visits — Dos Santos added that "vaccination is vital in protecting pets from preventable and potentially fatal diseases that can be devastating for families.
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When I ask my public health nursing students to debate the pros and cons of mandating vaccinations for school-aged children using the best available scientific evidence to support their position, nobody wants to sign up for the side arguing against vaccinating children.
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Health workers in Pakistan vaccinating children against polio have come under attack in recent years by militants, who have targeted anti-polo campaigns since US intelligence officials used a fake vaccination program as part of the hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2011.
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Though they are huge: A study earlier this month by researchers from Harvard, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and elsewhere predicted that fully vaccinating against measles would save more than 22 million lives by 2030, and keep almost 5 million people from falling into poverty.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Vaccinating too few children in Syria against polio because the six-year-old war there makes it difficult to reach them risks causing more cases in the future, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, posing a dilemma after a recent outbreak.
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"It is known as "90-1783-90": vaccinating 90 percent of women against multiple strains of HPV, screening 70 percent of women for cervical cancer at ages 35 and 45, and giving care to 90 percent of women diagnosed with cervical cancer," Erin writes.
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Supplying Prevnar 13 for adults "is not where the public health bang for the buck is," and "we're diluting the message that vaccinating the children is important," said Paul Hunter, a committee member and public health official in Milwaukee who voted against the 2014 recommendation.
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His modus operandi, "surveillance-containment", required not mass vaccination but pinning down each case and vaccinating all contacts; it needed the co-operation even of villagers and schoolchildren, who learned to spot the tell-tale rash of Variola major, like buckshot embedded in the skin.
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The report's central message is that without robust economic growth, the policies that helped reduce poverty (such as conditional cash transfers, which give families money for vaccinating children and sending them to school) may not be enough to keep their beneficiaries from becoming poor again.
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Lara Strick, an infectious disease physician who works with Washington state's Department of Corrections, said by email that offering vaccines to those exposed, rather than routinely vaccinating everyone, "still leaves the rest of the population vulnerable if and when they get exposed" to mumps.
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Each of the last three years, nongovernmental organizations involved in fighting it have optimistically declared it the virus's final year, seeking support from international donors and local officials as they embark on the daunting task of vaccinating every child 133 and under in the country.
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Let's assume that having a shared knowledge of science is the most important part of being an informed citizen today — and if you read this site regularly, I think you should take issue with that assumption; the Ark is not asking parents to stop vaccinating their children.
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"One of the biggest saviors for us in this response, in my view, has been our ability to use vaccine very tactically in vaccinating around cases, contacts, contacts of contacts and we believe that has reduced transmission significantly," Ryan told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, in May.
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All noted they haven't worked in Yemen but from a global perspective are concerned the current plan in the country doesn't reflect what's known about the vaccine's effectiveness, and could perpetuate a belief that vaccinating people in the midst of an epidemic won't have an impact.
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"For me personally, it has nothing to do with the science or debating the science of vaccines," says Briscoe Cain, a Republican state representative who, despite vaccinating his kids, is a staunch supporter of the anti-vaccine movement in Texas, which is often called the "vaccine choice" movement.
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"That was one of the reasons we came to the practice because we were informed they were accepting patients that had not been vaccinated or did not plan on vaccinating," Pickett, who has been taking her daughter to CPG Pediatrics since she was 6-months-old, told the station.
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The vaccine, from the pharmaceutical company Merck, is used in a ring vaccinations strategy: vaccinating the close contacts of Ebola cases and the contacts of those contacts, such as family members; a buffer or "ring" of immune people around those who are sick can keep the disease from spreading.
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A polio vaccination drive will begin on Monday, the health authorities said, with the aim of vaccinating about 300,000 children in parts of Hyderabad and in the Rangareddy district also part of the state of Telangana, according to a statement from India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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They included pseudo-scientists claiming that vaccines cause autism; accounts with tens of thousands of followers promising the "truth" around vaccinations through memes and images of misleading statistics, as well as individual mothers spouting the perceived, but false, dangers of vaccinating children against measles, polio, and other diseases.
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In the meantime, the team is advising policy-makers and program implementers to follow guidance when rolling out the vaccine, for example, by identifying which communities have the highest transmission rates and focusing on them, or vaccinating children at an older age to increase their likelihood of having been previously exposed.
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But responders first need to find those who need it: Instead of vaccinating the entire population, they're doling out the shots through a "ring vaccination" strategy, which involves immunizing the contacts — friends, family, housemates, neighbors — of people who have fallen ill to create a protective ring around them to stop transmission.
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"The premise is that by vaccinating all people who have come into contact with an infected person, you create a protective 'ring' and stop the virus from spreading further," John-Arne Rottingen of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, which has been involved in implementing the trial, told CNN last year.
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"I have been vaccinating my own children and will continue to give them polio vaccine till a certain age, but people have some misconception and doubts about polio vaccine, and the government needs to address their concerns," Abdul Wasey, secretary-general of Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told Reuters.
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People familiar with the group's plans also say that Feinberg has also been building bridges with the Google search and YouTube teams to improve health searches for consumers, so results are more authoritative, and to ensure there's less bad advice about health, such as videos that urge people to avoid vaccinating their children.
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"Unfortunately, Salmonella Reading may continue to be found throughout the industry until all companies take the steps necessary to eliminate it from the system," Steve Lykken, president of Jennie-O, said in a statement Friday, noting that the company is vaccinating its turkeys and instituting new, more stringent steps to try to prevent future outbreaks.
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It is now immunizing health workers and "ring-vaccinating" all contacts of every known case, but it might try to vaccinate everyone in affected areas, said Dr. Peter Salama, head of emergency responses for the W.H.O. But that would mean building up a much bigger stockpile of vaccine and the freezers needed to store it.
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New York Fed President John Williams even briefly convinced markets the Fed planned to cut rates by half a percentage point this week, until the New York Fed issued a statement to explain that his remarks about "vaccinating" the economy against serious illness were academic in nature and not meant to signal near-term policy decisions.
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Inspectors cited Southwest Key for giving kids the wrong medications; for failing to give them prescribed medications; for withholding medical care -- for example, making a child with a fractured wrist at the El Presidente shelter in Brownsville wait three days before seeing a doctor -- or inappropriate care, such as vaccinating a pregnant teen at the same shelter.
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An important rationale for vaccinating against mumps was always to protect against orchitis, an inflammation of the testicles which used to be relatively common in post-pubertal males who came down with mumps, affecting 20 to 30 percent of them, and sometimes leaving them with loss of testicular tissue, decreased sperm counts and concerns about future fertility.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that pregnant women should be vaccinated, and a large study done in California and published in April in the journal Pediatrics showed that vaccinating the mothers was highly protective for the infants during the first months of life, and continued to offer additional protection even after the childhood vaccine schedule began.
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During the Disneyland outbreak in 2015, a 9-month-old child whose parents were planning to immunize contracted measles from an older child who hadn't been vaccinated, said Dr. Annabelle De St. Maurice, an expert on infectious diseases at U.C.L.A. So vaccinating your child not only protects your child, it helps protect others in your community.
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Trump's health chief says states can pass anti-vaxxer laws if they want Trump's health chief says states can pass anti-vaxxer laws if they want Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a licensed physician, argued Wednesday that vaccinating children should be a matter best handled by the states, and not dictated by federal guidelines.
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Still, this is the first study to provide very strong evidence that vaccinating pregnant women protects their babies, especially during that critical first two months of life when infants haven't received their own dose of the vaccine, said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric infectious disease researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, who wasn't involved in the study.
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It has now taken on deployment of the new Ebola vaccine as a project, and it could be a vehicle for tackling many of the complex issues of funding and implementing an emergency epidemic response vaccine plan, but that would require additional funding sources and support to ensure that Gavi is not distracted from its core work of vaccinating millions against existing disease threats.
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