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A virus that melts sea stars
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About viruses and viral disease. A virus that melts sea stars. Sea stars are lovely marine invertebrates with a round central body connected to multiple radiating legs ( photo credit. In the past year millions of sea stars in the west coast waters of North America have melted into piles of slime and ossicles. Sea star associated densovirus. Might be the cause of this lethal disease. Analysis of the DNA sequence data revealed the presence of a densovirus (a parvovirus) related to viruses found in Hawaiian...
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venkat in bangalore: Pulse Polio Program
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007. I, along with about 20 other students from college, had the opportunity to participate in the Pulse Polio Program at Anjanappa Garden, Bangalore. We administered the polio vaccine to children in need. My buddy Arjun and I vaccinated about 250 children, and visited 300 homes to make sure no child was left without protection against a disease that needs to be eradicated form India. Http:/ www.polioeradication.org. December 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM. December 12, 2007 at 6:01 PM.
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venkat in bangalore: December 2007
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007. I, along with about 20 other students from college, had the opportunity to participate in the Pulse Polio Program at Anjanappa Garden, Bangalore. We administered the polio vaccine to children in need. My buddy Arjun and I vaccinated about 250 children, and visited 300 homes to make sure no child was left without protection against a disease that needs to be eradicated form India. Http:/ www.polioeradication.org. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Global Polio Situation
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Skip to main navigation. Skip to main content. Polio Cases in Provinces. Polio Cases District Wise. Tremendous achievements have been made in the global fight against polio since 1988 when the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate the disease. The number of polio cases worldwide has decreased by more than 99%, from more than 350,000 in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. The number of endemic countries has decreased from over 125 in 1988 to just two Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Increased funds from the intern...
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New deadline for polio programme | poliohunt
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Disease eradication is a high stakes venture. New vaccine to be introduced in the polio endgame →. November 2, 2012 · 5:25 pm. New deadline for polio programme. The polio programme is working on an Endgame strategic plan setting out a new schedule for eradicating wild polio virus, and ending the risk of vaccine derived polio, which grows with the continued use of the oral polio vaccine that the polio eradication campaign has depended on. Tagged as global polio eradication initiative. New deadline for pol...
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Off to Nigeria | poliohunt
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On the polio trail →. July 3, 2012 · 4:57 pm. To the elusive nomadic tribes that that flit across borders eluding vaccination teams. The good folk at the UNICEF polio campaign in Nigeria. How do people respond to outsiders knocking on their door and asking to put strange drops in their children’s mouths? What motivates underpaid and overworked vaccinators to knock on countless doors to try and persuade reluctant parents to immunise their children? On the polio trail →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Global ...
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Coercion is unethical | poliohunt
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A question of trust. Off to Nigeria →. June 29, 2012 · 2:32 pm. Coercion has often been a dark side of the history of public health. During the campaign to eradicate small pox, there were cases of villagers in India and Bangladesh being pulled out of their homes to be vaccinated. The same thing appears to be happening again with the polio campaign. The Daily Trust newspaper in Nigeria has reported that parents in Kebbi state in Northwestern Nigeria have been threatened with arrest,. As international pres...
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New vaccine to be introduced in the polio endgame | poliohunt
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New deadline for polio programme. November 25, 2012 · 5:31 pm. New vaccine to be introduced in the polio endgame. He’s going to need a new vaccine in the freezer. He Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s. Draft plans for a polio endgame that will continue till end 2018 involves a shift from the current trivalent oral polio vaccine (tOPV) to a combination of an injectable inactivated vaccine (IPV) and bi-valent oral vaccine. Nigeria has had an on-going outbreak of polio. One welcome feature of the draft s...
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White people in Nigeria | poliohunt
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On the polio trail. Disease eradication is a high stakes venture →. July 15, 2012 · 4:56 pm. White people in Nigeria. In my more than five decades, I have never been described as a white man. But in Nigeria, that is what I am. As hordes of children trail after me in a village in Kano district , one of the adults explains their excitement: they have never seen a white person come to the village before. Panchanan(centre) and Fa from UNICEF. Deepali Sharma and Mary Mendes(centre). On the polio trail. You ar...