TB & Outbreaks Week articles from November 2000

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from November 2000

Risk Factors Predict Need to Isolate Hospital Inpatients with Tuberculosis.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) The best way to maintain costs while at the same time isolating tuberculosis patients who may pose a risk for transmission is to assess clinical and radiographic findings, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine...

Some Factors Weigh Heavier for Predicting Outcomes in Newborns with Meningitis.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bacterial meningitis is a serious illness, especially in infants. In some instances severe neurological impairments can occur, and the worst cases are fatal. Researchers in Toronto, Canada, at the Hospital...

Increased Risk of Tuberculosis Recurrence in People With HIV-1 Infection.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- People with HIV-1 infection are at an increased risk of recurrent tuberculosis and could benefit from preventive treatment after the first episode of the disease, concludes research published in the October 28,...

Flies Implicated as Vector for Cryptosporidium.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- There's yet another good reason to keep flies off your food: both houseflies and filth flies can transmit cryptosporidiosis. Better fly control is one key to decreasing the risk of this disease, Dr....

Mosquito-Borne Virus an Emerging Public Health Problem in U.S.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Dengue fever is emerging as a major public health problem in most areas along the Texas-Mexico border, in particular South Texas, according to a report at the annual meeting of the American Society for...

Tuberculosis Surveillance in Poland Finds Stable Levels of Resistant Strains.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study of the prevalence and epidemiology of tuberculosis infection in Polish patients was recently reported in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. In that report, study authors...

Toxin-Containing Bacteria Destroy DNA.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Protein toxins found in bacteria that are the most common culprit in food poisoning, attack and destroy DNA, a study by Yale University researchers shows. The finding, published in the October 20, 2000,...

Single Gene Makes Parasite Resistant to Chloroquine.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- After more than a decade-and-a-half-long search, researchers have identified the gene that makes the most deadly malaria parasite resistant to chloroquine, the former mainstay, low-cost antimalarial drug. ...

Many Hospitals Don't Have Prevention Policies on Vertical Transmission of Group B Streptococcal Disease.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- A survey in eight U.S. states shows that one-third of hospitals still do not have prevention policies aimed at reducing mother-to-child transmission of group B streptococcus (GBS). GBS is the leading cause...

Outbreak Study in Minnesota Outlines Strategies to Avoid Unnecessary Testing.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Public health investigators detected an outbreak of pertussis in a rural area of Minnesota in the winter of 1998. As a result of epidemiological investigation conducted during that outbreak, new strategies...

Live Vaccines, Poor Surveillance Threaten Eradication in Western Pacific Region.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- The eradication of poliomyelitis from the western pacific region was due to be declared on October 29, 2000. However, two studies in the October 28, 2000, issue of The Lancet highlight the remaining hurdles...

Death Toll in South Africa's Outbreak Rises to 30.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Two people died of cholera in the eastern Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa on October 22, bringing to 30 the death toll from an outbreak of the waterborne disease, health officials said. Some 3,550...

Supplemental Application Submitted for Biaxin XL Indication.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, announced it has submitted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval of a seven-day indication for...

High-Risk Patients Need First Flu Shots.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Dr. Raymond Scalettar is angry. He has to send elderly lung-disease patients to nearby supermarkets for a flu shot. Why? Some huge grocery chains received thousands of vaccine doses before manufacturers...

First U.S. Tracking System Will Measure and Predict RTI Peaks.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Respiratory Tract Infection Alert, the first national tracking system in the U.S. to give consumers direct access to proprietary information on respiratory tract infection (RTI) rates in their area, was...

Economic Realities Depleting Arsenal.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- While resistance may be reducing the effectiveness of our medicine chest, we have another force to fear: economics. Many drugs still effective against parasitic diseases are either no longer available, no...

Signs of Bird Flu Spark New Fears in Hong Kong.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Officials in Hong Kong downplayed signs of a bird flu virus similar to one that killed six people and sickened a dozen others in 1997, saying it was unlikely to be as serious. On October 21, 2000, local...

Symposium Slated for November 28-29, 2000.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- For the second consecutive year, political leaders, public health and medical professionals, research scientists, law enforcement, and national security experts will convene to explore how best to confront the...

WHO, CDC Respond to Outbreak in Uganda.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- On October 17, 2000, as part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) response to an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent a team of six disease...

Death Toll Remains Stable as Experts Seek to Contain Outbreak.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- As of October 23, 2000, for the first time in more than a week, the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda had not increased during a 24-hour period. Dr. Sam Okware, who chairs a task force...

Cerebrospinal Fluid Assays Identify Herpesvirus Infections.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Viral infections can cause a number of neurological manifestations, including meningitis and encephalitis. A report in the Journal of Neurovirology says that diagnostic laboratories, which are often...

Public Health Policies Successful in Limiting Salmonella.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. government researchers say that diligent public health practices have helped to curtail the number of new cases of Salmonella infections in recent years. Salmonella enteritidis (SE) causes severe...

Priority Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Urged for High-Risk Groups.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, and representatives of leading medical groups are urging priority vaccination of individuals in the U.S. who are at high risk for serious complications from...

T Cells Hold Clues to Better Vaccines, Infectious Disease Treatment.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- How T cells learn to fight off infections and other invaders is the focus of researchers at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. They hope better information about how these front-line defenders do...

Synthetic Long Peptide Elicits Protection Against Parasite.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- A synthetic long peptide derived from the Plasmodium berghei circumsporozoite protein is immunogenic in a vaccine formulation. "We compared the immunogenicity of two preparations of a peptide derived from...

Trial Shows Infants Not Protected by SPf66 Vaccine.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) Infants do not respond as well as older children to vaccination with the SPf66 peptide vaccine, study results show. "The development of a malaria vaccine is a priority for improved and sustained malaria...

Aerosolized Ribavirin and Immunotherapy Successful Against Pneumona in Myelosuppressed Adults.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Combination therapy with aerosolized ribavirin and immunotherapy is effective against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) pneumonia in myelosuppressed adults with leukemia, say researchers. "During community...

Patch Technology Awaits FDA Approval for Clinical Trials.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- In five to 10 years, flu vaccinations could be as simple as applying an adhesive patch. University of Alabama, Birmingham, researcher De-chu Tang, PhD, is awaiting U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Virus Found in North Carolina Crow.
November 7, 2000... 2000 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Madison, Wisconsin, have confirmed that a dead crow, found in Chatham County, North Carolina, near the town of Moncure died of the West Nile virus. The...

Mycobacterial Infections in Upper Extremities Difficult to Detect and Treat.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) Mycobacterial infections in the upper extremities are rare and thus, they are often identified during later stages and are more difficult to treat, new research reported in the Journal of the Formosan Medical...

Selective Screening as Effective as Systematic Screening for Resistant Staph. aureus.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Selective screening is comparable to systematic screening for detecting hospital inpatients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Scientists in France made that pronouncement as the...

Outbreak in Finland Associated with Main Water Supply Reservoir.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- A widespread Campylobacter jejuni outbreak struck several thousand people in Finland in 1998. The municipal water system was implicated, but scientists still do not know how the water contamination occurred....

Microorganisms Stow Away in Ballast Water.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ships' ballast water has been shown to be one means of moving microbes from one region of the world to another. Researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Washington, DC, the...

Researchers Find Toxin Produced by Bacteria in Infant Fluid Samples.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- A new study reported by Vanderbilt University medical investigators shows that the exotoxin produced during group B streptococcal (GBS) infections in infants can be detected in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid,...

Secret to Listeria's Virulence Provides Clues to Workings of Other Deadly Microbes.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Many deadly microbes have learned that the key to launching an infection is not to kill your host - at least not too quickly. Now, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered how...

Study: Disease Transmission Can Be Interrupted in Island Communities if All Participate.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Malaria can be eliminated on isolated islands with short-term mass drug administration and sustained vector control if there is a high degree of community participation, concludes research published in the...

Decrease Worldwide Reaches Target, But Many Countries Still Lagging.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- The global death toll in young children has fallen dramatically in the past half-century and has even dropped below the target set a decade ago by world leaders. But the pace of decline has been slowing in...

Death Toll in Uganda Outbreak Rises to 80.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- The death toll from the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in northern Uganda had risen to 80 as of November 1, 2000, according to the World Health Organization. The Ugandan Ministry of Health had...

Doctors Battle Disfiguring Parasite.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- It begins with a mosquito bite, seemingly no different from any other. But this one leaves a small worm behind. A few years later, long after the worm has died, a part of the body begins to swell - and a life...

Western Pacific Region Certified Polio-Free.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- On October 29, 2000, an independent panel of international public health experts certified the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region as polio-free. The Region includes 37 countries and...

Clinical Study Affirms Avelox Safety and Efficacy.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bayer Corp., West Haven, Connecticut, announced that a large antibiotic clinical study affirms that the quinolone antibiotic Avelox (moxifloxacin hydrochloride) is safe and effective for the treatment of...

Sleeping Sickness Has Claimed Over 60 Lives in Angola Since August.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Efforts to eliminate the tsetse fly have been stepped up in the northern province of Uige in Angola as the human death toll rises due to trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, vectored by the fly. The fly...

Children in South Africa are Receiving New Intradermal BCG Vaccine.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Children in the Northern Province of South Africa are being immunized against tuberculosis with a new intradermal bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine. The Province's health department recently introduced the...

Novel Lipopolysaccharide Vaccine Immunogenic in Rabbit Model.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Preclinical data of a novel liposomal complete-core lipopolysaccharide (LPS) vaccine against numerous bacterial pathogens are encouraging. "Low preoperative anti-endotoxin antibody levels have been shown...

CDC's Attention Turns to Preparing for Threats to Nation's Food Supply.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a report to the Infectious Diseases of American Conference, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers presented an outline of the agency's efforts to...

Infection Due to Herpesvirus Difficult to Distinguish from Other Causes.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Conjunctivitis that is caused by herpes simplex virus I can be difficult to distinguish from conjunctivitis caused by other types of viruses, but with diligent analysis it can be done, according to medical...

Rare, Deadly Disease May Have Been Spread in Hospital.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- A patient who died after brain surgery had an incurable disease that may have been spread to eight other patients through tainted instruments, hospital officials say. Tulane University Hospital and...

PulseNet Assay Checks for Pathogens.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- The test takes about a day to run. It uses enzymes to cut bacterial genes into various size chunks, then sorts them by size. The result is a pattern of bands that looks like a grocery store bar code....

Survey: Vaccines Confuse Parents.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- A sizable number of parents have misconceptions about vaccines, with many believing that too many immunizations can weaken their children's ability to fight diseases, a survey found. About one-fourth of...

Collaboration Announced to Develop Vaccine.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Galenica Pharmaceuticals, Frederick, Maryland, announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) Malaria Program of the U.S. Navy to evaluate Galenica's proprietary...

Peptide Technology Boosts Immune Response in Mice.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) and Cel-Sci Corp. (CVM) announced that an experimental peptide, based on Cel-Sci's LEAPS (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) technology, induced protective...

Vaccine Elicits Protective Immune Response in Monkeys.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Genzyme Transgenics Corp. (GTC) (GZTC), Framingham, Massachusetts, announced that a malaria vaccine protein under development using GTC's technology has elicited protection against malaria in primates. ...

Scientists Report Advance in Tackling Common Viral Respiratory Disease.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Respiratory infections strike millions of people each year and collectively cause more deaths than any single infectious disease. For the first time, scientists have determined the structure of a key protein...

Typhoid Vaccination Recommended for Short-Term Travel.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Vaccination for typhoid fever should be considered for even short-term visits to high-risk areas, according to a report presented at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Ellen...

Neurological Complications from MMR Immunization are Rare.
November 14, 2000... 2000 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Although rare, neurological complications from the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine have been reported. "The incidence of neurological sequelae of measles, mumps, and rubella has decreased...

Culture Systems Compared for Growth and Detection of Mycobacteria.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a head-to-head comparison, the BACTEC MGIT 960 culturing system detected mycobacteria more quickly and with fewer false-positive results than the ESP II system. The study was conducted by N....

CDC Verifies at Least One Worker Acquired TB from Medical Waste.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Government investigators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently verified that at least one of three medical waste treatment workers in Washington State who claimed they acquired...

Gallium Marks Iron Factors in Macrophages that Host Mycobacteria.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Gallium can be used to study iron metabolism in macrophages inhabited by strains of mycobacteria, new research has found. Although studies have shown that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. avium complex...

Two-Test Method Differentiates Infectious Diseases from Vasculitis.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- A testing method that combines the use of indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is the best way to distinguish antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) in...

Nine-Year Study at Tertiary Cancer Center Sees Little Infection with Legionella.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cancer patients with underlying hematologic malignancies were the ones most often diagnosed with Legionella pneumonia in a review performed by researchers at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University...

Study Suggests U.K. Health Care Workers at Increased Infection Risk.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers with Britain's Communicable Disease Surveillance Center report that health care workers in the U.K. are at increased risk of meningococcal disease. The risk of meningococcal disease in health...

Throat Swabbing Underestimates Infection.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- A research letter published in the November 11, 2000, issue of The Lancet suggests that the technique of throat swabbing to detect Neisseria meningitidis, the bacterium that causes meningitis, only identifies...

Collagen Marker Indicative of Fibrosis Caused by Parasitic Disease.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Liver fibrosis, and ultimately cirrhosis, is an unfortunate aspect of infection caused by some species of Schistosoma. Collagen markers could effectively indicate liver fibrosis in patients with...

BCG Vaccine Induces Similar Protection by Rectal or Parenteral Delivery.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in France discovered that the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine confers similar levels of protection regardless of whether it is administered by the rectal or parenteral route. "We...

Health Minister Warns that Cases Will Surely Rise in France.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- France's health minister Dominique Gillot was quoted on November 7, 2000, as saying that an increase in the number of cases of mad cow disease in France means it is "highly probable" that there will be an...

Mosquito-Borne Disease Kills at Least Six People in Honduras.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- A fatal form of mosquito-borne dengue fever killed at least six people in Honduras during October, filling government hospitals to capacity, officials said on October 31, 2000. Another 130 people were...

China Coping with Rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Trying to combat a surge in sexually transmitted diseases, Chinese officials will crack down on quack doctors and set up a new center to oversee treatment. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were...

Distributor Price Gouging of Influenza Vaccine Condemned.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- The following statement was issued by Richard F. Corlin, MD, president-elect of the American Medical Association: [helv] The American Medical Association (AMA) has received numerous reports from...

Outbreak Kills 25 in Southern India.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- At least 25 people, mostly children, died of Japanese encephalitis in October 2000 and 100 others are ill in a southern Indian state where hundreds have been killed by the disease in recent years. The...

Approval Sought for IV Formulation of Moxifloxacin.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bayer Corp., West Haven, Connecticut, announced that it has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the intravenous (IV) form of the antibiotic moxifloxacin....

Partners in Health Harnesses Telemedicine Platform for Research and Treatment.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- PictureTel(R) Corp. (PCTL) announced that Partners in Health, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving the health of poor communities, has selected the PictureTel 900 Series for remote medical...

FDA Issues Public Health Warning on Phenylpropanolamine.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 6, 2000, took steps to remove phenylpropanolamine from all drug products and has requested that all drug companies discontinue marketing products in the...

Varicella Vaccine Protects Adults from Serious Disease.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Live attenuated varicella vaccine (LAVV) of healthy adults protects them from serious illness, researchers report. "Immunization of susceptible adults with varicella vaccine is recommended, but the...

Gestational Infection Increases Risk of Premature Delivery.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Spontaneous preterm deliveries are more likely to occur when Chlamydia trachomatis infections are present in the genitourinary tract at 24 weeks' gestation a study has shown. Researchers at the University...

Study Defines Best Way to Test Shellfish for Viral Contaminants.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- A comparative analysis of four methods for detecting viral contaminants, including hepatitis A virus, has shown that using a glycine buffer at a pH of 10.0 presents the best way to recover and analyze phages...

Kissing May Spread Cause of Kaposi's Sarcoma.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Most people do not think of kissing as a way of spreading serious sexually transmitted diseases. But kissing between men may be what spreads human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the cause of Kaposi's sarcoma,...

Adolescents Know Little About Sexually Transmitted HPV.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- High school students know little about human papillomavirus (HPV), the most frequent sexually transmitted disease in North America, according to a survey in the November 2000 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology....

Sexual Partner Count Presents Greatest Risk for HPV-Related Cancer in Women.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Human papillomaviruses have been shown to be a significant factor in the development of cervical cancers in women. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden say the strongest risk factor associated...

Transmission within Families Reduced with Zanamivir.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Families like to share a lot of things, but the flu shouldn't be one of them. A new study, published in the November 2, 2000, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that zanamivir can prevent...

Vaccine Candidates Identified from cDNA Expression Library.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States have identified vaccine candidates for visceral leishmaniasis by immunizing mice with sequential fractions of a cDNA expression library. "Visceral leishmaniasis caused by...

Incidence Declined in U.S. in 1999.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- Reported cases of the measles in the Americas and Caribbean countries dropped steeply last year, U.S. government researchers said on November 2, 2000. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Influenza Vaccination Rates Poor for Pediatric Health Care Workers.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- An influenza immunization campaign launched by the Pediatric Prevention Network (PPN) has helped increase immunization rates among pediatric health care workers (HCWs). "Despite national recommendations...

U.N. Wraps Up Campaign in Disputed Sudanese Region.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- The United Nations said on November 7, 2000, that it vaccinated more than 66,000 children against polio in southern Sudan's disputed Nuba Mountains during October, only the second time it has gained access to...

Idiotype-Derived Mimotope May Be Useful for Vaccine Development.
November 21, 2000... 2000 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com) -- An idiotype-derived mimotope from Streptococcus pneumoniae may be useful for the development of a T-cell-dependent vaccine against infection by this bacterium. "Even in the age of antibiotics,...