latest vaccine news Saturday, October 11, 2008

A Vaccine as an Option to Keep Shingles at Bay (New York Times) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:34:51 GMT
Merritt Clapp-Smith was misdiagnosed three times before the third doctor finally concluded that she was suffering from shingles. Maybe you haven’t heard anything about the shingles vaccine. more...

Limits Of Rabies Vaccine Triggering Precautions (WCMH Columbus) Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:56:12 GMT
-- County health officials in northeast Ohio are urging residents not to handle wild animals and to learn what to do if scratched or bitten by a pet. The warnings follow reports of a recent limited supply of the human rabies vaccine in the United States. more...

Bird Flu Vaccine or Biological Weapon? (FOX 29 Lake Charles) Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:44:39 GMT
Bird Flu Vaccine or Biological Weapon? When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard. more...

Cancer Vaccine Used by 25% of Girls 13 to 17 (The Gadsden Times) Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:06:20 GMT
The figures represent the governments first substantial study of vaccination rates for Gardasil, a vaccine against a virus responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers. more...

25% of Teen Girls Got HPV Vaccine (MedicineNet.com) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:28:42 GMT
Title: 25% of Teen Girls Got HPV Vaccine Category: Health News Created: 10/10/2008 Last Editorial Review: 10/10/2008 more...

Cancer Vaccine Used by 25% of Girls 13 to 17 (New York Times) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:29:06 GMT
The figures represent the government?s first substantial study of vaccination rates for Gardasil, a vaccine against a virus responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers. more...

Quarter of adolescent U.S. girls received HPV vaccine (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:44:45 GMT
A quarter of girls aged 13-17 in the United States received Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine last year to protect against the human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer, the U.S. government said on Thursday. more...

ATLANTA: 25 pct. of teen girls have received cancer vaccine (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:35:41 GMT
One in four teen girls has rolled up her sleeve for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday. more...

Cervical cancer vaccine reaches quarter of U.S. girls (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:16:49 GMT
About a quarter of U.S. teenage girls received the controversial cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil in its first full year of distribution, federal authorities said Thursday. "For a new vaccine, 25 percent is really very good," Lance Rodewald, director of the division of immunization services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at a telephone news conference releasing the data. ... more...

Rabies vaccine (The Telegraph) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:06:05 GMT
Behrampore, Oct. 10: A mason and a labourer died of rabies in Murshidabad because the vaccine to cure it was not available in the government hospital nearby. more...