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CHENNAI,
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Five million Indian children were vaccinated with the five-in-one pentavalent shots in just over a year. Jammu and Kashmir became the sixth State to introduce the vaccines as part of the universal...
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January 14, 2013
The large sums of money spent in the eradication of the disease is an investment in the economic development of the country
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CHENNAI,
August 29, 2012
The tanks will ensure a minimum chlorine level of 0.2 ppm, especially in tail-end streets
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
July 7, 2012
The day was observed by GVMC at the Veterinary Hospital in association with Veterinary Polyclinic and Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University.
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MADURAI,
June 21, 2012
The popularisation drive of homoeopathy pills for prevention of dengue fever continued in Madurai as the Government Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital at Tirumangalam near here conducted tw...
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KOCHI,
April 26, 2012
The Mass Drug Administration to check the spread of filariasis will begin on Thursday. The three-day programme will be inaugurated in the district at the primary health centre, Kakkanad, by...
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CHENNAI,
April 24, 2012
Delayed implementation of periodic immunisation activities major cause: WHO
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VISAKHAPATNAM,
April 16, 2012
The campaign will continue up to April 18. The total number of children up to 5 years of age is 4.47 lakh out of whom 2.35 lakh were from rural areas and 1.36 lakh from urban areas.
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CHENNAI,
April 16, 2012
A total of 4.48 lakh children under the age of five under the old limits of the Chennai Corporation were covered in the second phase of pulse polio vaccination held here on Sunday. Over 4,500 staff...
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GULBARGA,
April 9, 2012
The second round of the National Pulse Polio programme will be held in Gulbarga district from April 15 to 18, covering all children aged below five. Deputy Commissioner R. Vishal, who pr...
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NEW DELHI,
February 23, 2012
India may have won the battle against polio but the war is far from over. Having achieved one full polio-free year, the key challenge now is to ensure any residual or imported poliovirus in the co...
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CHENNAI,
January 13, 2013
‘It is probably the biggest public health success story of this century
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August 8, 2012
Unsafe injection practices and the reselling of sharps waste are the major causes of periodic Hepatitis B and C epidemics
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Bangalore,
July 2, 2012
Six-year-old Mohammed Shaaz is down with measles, although he was vaccinated against it when he was just a year old. Similar is the case of 10-year-old Anushree Gowda, who contracted chi...
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NEW DELHI,
May 30, 2012
A nine-member Pakistani delegation has arrived in India to learn from its experience of polio eradication.Pakistan saw a manifold rise in polio cases this year, and is one of the three coun...
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VIJAYAWADA,
April 24, 2012
The mortality rate of meningitis was as high as 70 per cent in 1940, the mortality rate continues to be as high as 25 per cent even now due to poor awareness, the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IA...
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CHENNAI,
April 16, 2012
Haiti is all set to start vaccinating one lakh people with an oral cholera vaccine “Shanchol” developed by the Hyderabad-based Shantha Biotechnics. According to a news report in the British Medica...
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VIJAYAWADA,
April 16, 2012
Vijayawada (West) MLA Velampalli Srinivas, Vijayawada (Central) MLA Malladi Vishnu, Vijayawada (East) MLA Yelamanchili Ravi, Municipal Commissioner G. Ravi Babu and others administered polio drops to the children.
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ALAPPUZHA,
April 13, 2012
The second phase of the pulse polio immunization programme will be held in the district on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Additional District Magistrate (ADM) K.P....
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NEW DELHI,
March 30, 2012
The government on Friday confirmed that the 18-month-girl from West Bengal who had developed Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) has tested negative for polio. The stool samples of the child have tested...
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KOTTAYAM,
February 19, 2012
Kerala cannot afford to remain aloof to the cases of outbreak of diseases in other States, Minister for Health Adoor Prakash has said. The increasing number of migrant labourers in the State has m...
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