http://vaccinenewsdaily.com Vaccines Impact Lives Wed, 16 May 2012 18:33:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318822-anti-malaria-groups-warn-of-growing-insecticide-resistance/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318822-anti-malaria-groups-warn-of-growing-insecticide-resistance/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:31:36 +0000 Ted Purlain http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318822 TweetSeveral global health groups recently announced the development of a strategy to fight the emergence of insecticide resistance in malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The World Health Organization and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership described the five part plan to minimize insecticide resistance … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318822-anti-malaria-groups-warn-of-growing-insecticide-resistance/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318821-global-fund-board-meets-in-geneva/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318821-global-fund-board-meets-in-geneva/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:17:35 +0000 Jeffrey Bigongiari http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318821 TweetThe board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, recently met in Geneva, Switzerland, for the first time since the arrival of new General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo. The Global Fund began operating in 2002, and its board … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318821-global-fund-board-meets-in-geneva/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318828-theraclone-sciences-reports-positive-phase-1-trial-results-for-influenza-a-antibody/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318828-theraclone-sciences-reports-positive-phase-1-trial-results-for-influenza-a-antibody/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 10:34:20 +0000 Paul Tinder http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318828 TweetTheraclone Sciences, Inc., a Seattle-based therapeutic antibody developer, announced positive top-line data from its phase 1 trial of a broadly protective, fully human monoclonal antibody meant to treat infections of influenza A. The company found that the antibody, TCN-032, had … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318828-theraclone-sciences-reports-positive-phase-1-trial-results-for-influenza-a-antibody/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318827-maryland-proposes-additional-pertussis-chicken-pox-booster-requirement/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318827-maryland-proposes-additional-pertussis-chicken-pox-booster-requirement/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 10:26:19 +0000 Bryan Cohen http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318827 TweetThe state of Maryland is proposing a new set of vaccination guidelines that would require incoming kindergartners to get a chicken pox booster and seventh graders to get a booster against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. The state also wants to … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318827-maryland-proposes-additional-pertussis-chicken-pox-booster-requirement/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/united-states/318816-montana-county-fights-worst-ever-pertussis-outbreak/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/united-states/318816-montana-county-fights-worst-ever-pertussis-outbreak/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 11:31:49 +0000 Ted Purlain http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318816 TweetHealth officials in Missoula County, Montana, recently called an outbreak of pertussis, or whooping cough, the worst in the area’s history. Missoula County has reported seven confirmed cases of pertussis with the Missoula City-County Health Department. The cases range in … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/united-states/318816-montana-county-fights-worst-ever-pertussis-outbreak/feed/ 1 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318815-australian-triathlete-in-medical-isolation-with-possible-tb/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318815-australian-triathlete-in-medical-isolation-with-possible-tb/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 11:06:48 +0000 Jeffrey Bigongiari http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318815 TweetAustralian Olympic triathlete Brad Kahlefeldt was recently placed in isolation at a San Diego hospital with symptoms that point to tuberculosis. Kahlefeldt complained of pains in the left side of his chest during the closing 10 kilometer run of the … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/medical_countermeasures/318815-australian-triathlete-in-medical-isolation-with-possible-tb/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318812-profectus-biosciences-receives-5-6m-grant-for-nipahhendra-vaccine/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318812-profectus-biosciences-receives-5-6m-grant-for-nipahhendra-vaccine/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 10:54:00 +0000 Paul Tinder http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318812 TweetProfectus Biosciences, Inc., a technology-based vaccine developer, announced on Wednesday that it has received a $5.6 million grant to support the preclinical development of a human vaccine against the Hendra and Nipah virus infections. The grant comes under the Partnerships … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/vaccine_development/318812-profectus-biosciences-receives-5-6m-grant-for-nipahhendra-vaccine/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/asia/318809-measles-outbreak-kills-12-children-in-pakistan/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/asia/318809-measles-outbreak-kills-12-children-in-pakistan/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 10:08:54 +0000 Bryan Cohen http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318809 TweetAn outbreak of measles in a lawless Pakistan tribal district has killed 12 children and is spreading as curfews, power cuts and fighting have led to a shortage of vaccinations. North Waziristan is a deeply poor area that borders Afghanistan … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/asia/318809-measles-outbreak-kills-12-children-in-pakistan/feed/ 1 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/world_health_organization/318802-who-fears-tb-resurgence/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/world_health_organization/318802-who-fears-tb-resurgence/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 11:57:38 +0000 Ted Purlain http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318802 TweetThe World Health Organization recently warned that tuberculosis could become incurable if governments fail to act. The WHO blames a reduction in public health funding, the sale of inaccurate blood tests and the misuse of TB medicine, especially in the … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/world_health_organization/318802-who-fears-tb-resurgence/feed/ 0 http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/news/318803-malaria-deaths-among-sudan-refugees-dropping/ http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/news/318803-malaria-deaths-among-sudan-refugees-dropping/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 11:47:39 +0000 Jeffrey Bigongiari http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/?p=318803 TweetThe United Nations recently reported that malaria deaths among refugees living along the Sudan border have dropped since the implementation of malaria-reduction strategies. Malaria was credited with killing more Sudanese refugees in Kakuma Camp in northern Kenya that any other … Read More »]]> http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/news/318803-malaria-deaths-among-sudan-refugees-dropping/feed/ 1