ATLANTA (AP) -- Measles outbreaks in several states have led to more than 70 cases so far this year, the worst in six years, health officials said Thursday....
... and safety of cancer therapy, and lead to a better understanding of how viruses similar to measles function. A result could be more effective vaccines for other diseases.
From a strictly scientific ...
... . These findings should lead to reconsideration of the policy for vaccination during measles outbreaks and in humanitarian emergencies, say the authors.
Maternal antibodies protect against measles ...
ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, government health ...
... blinded to diagnosis, including one wherein the original findings suggesting a link between measles virus and autism had been reported.
"Our results are inconsistent with a causal role for MMR ...
A measles outbreak in Gibraltar has infected almost 1 percent of the territory’s residents in just three months, according to a recent report.
... , said: "There are
now a large number of children who are not fully vaccinated with
MMR. This means that measles is spreading easily among unvaccinated
children. There is now a real risk of a large... ...
ATLANTA (AP) -- Measles deaths worldwide declined dramatically to about 200,000 a year, continuing a successful trend, global health authorities reported Thursday....
It's unlikely that Europe will meet its goal of eliminating measles by 2010, say the authors of a new report on low vaccination rates among children in Romania, Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Italy ...
... patients.
The results set the foundation for additional studies in preparation for using engineered measles strains in a clinical trial for the treatment of patients with advanced prostate cancer.
LONDON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Britain could face a measles epidemic because of parental reluctance to use the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, health officials said.
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 15 (UPI) -- Health officials in Maryland say four people have been diagnosed with measles in the state's first outbreak since 2001.
... immunisation, and the Welsh assembly is
actively considering the move following a series of outbreaks of
measles across the country.Sir Sandy Macara, a public health doctor
and former chairman of the ...
... mist aerosol and those who took part in the test had a lower rate of developing measles than those who received a vaccine by injection, according to Sievers. "The problem with that method," he said, ...
... Aridis and the study's principal investigator, "There is a need for technologies that could stabilize the measles vaccine, as this would facilitate mass vaccination in developing world countries where ...
