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Ohio will require students entering kindergarten and seventh grade to get more shots starting in the new school year. Officials say the changes adopted by state health officials in December and first announced on Friday are the first since 2006 and reflect federal immunization guidelines. A second dose of chickenpox vaccine will be required for youngsters entering kindergarten.  

A HEALTH boss says swine flu is "likely" to come back next year and could be far more dangerous than before. Figures also show pregnant women and young children in Worcestershire, two of the groups most at risk from the flu, were less keen to have the vaccine than over 65s. Dr Richard Harling, director of public health for NHS Worcestershire, said in a report delivered to a board meeting: "There is a high likelihood that the swine flu virus will re-emerge during the 2010/11 flu season. The situation r

The greatest challenge is in convincing pregnant women of the need to have the vaccine.   -Richard Harling

 

Former Idaho Congressman Bill Sali resurfaced in Idaho politics today, testifying against child immunizations at a state House committee he once chaired and scheduling a Statehouse announcement on this final day of the candidate filing period. Sali, a conservative Republican, lost the 1st Congressional District seat to Democrat Walt Minnick two years ago after serving one term; before that, he was a longtime state lawmaker known for clashing with members of his own party. Sali will make his announceme  

Researchers in Japan have transformed mosquitos into vaccine-carrying syringes by genetically engineering the insects to express the vaccine for leishmaniasis--a parasitic disease transmitted by the sandfly--in their saliva. According to a study in Insect Molecular Biology , mice bitten by these mosquitos produced antibodies against the parasite. It's not yet clear whether the immune response was strong enough to protect against infection.  

Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in Idaho. In some cases, financial institutions and other recipients got doses before some county health departments and doctors' offices, according to records obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Informa  

A HEALTH boss says swine flu is "likely" to come back next year and could be far more dangerous than before. Figures also show pregnant women and young children in Worcestershire, two of the groups most at risk from the flu, were less keen to have the vaccine than over 65s. Dr Richard Harling, director of public health for NHS Worcestershire, said in a report delivered to a board meeting: "There is a high likelihood that the swine flu virus will re-emerge during the 2010/11 flu season. The situation r

The greatest challenge is in convincing pregnant women of the need to have the vaccine.   -Richard Harling

 

OSU-okc's Family Health & Safety Day is a FREE event, open to the public, held OUTDOORS at the Precision Driving Training Center facility located at 3401 W. Reno (at the crossroads of I-40 & I-44) across from Mathis Brothers. The event will feature fun, educational activities for the entire family; a childrens entertainment area that includes a fire truck, moon bounce, face painting and other activities; a live radio broadcast by Magic 104.1; great give-aways; and for the first time ever free immunizations  

Mississippi and Arkansas, two of the nation's poorest states, also have the highest death rates from cervical cancer — a result of poor access to basic screenings and health care for a large number of women, says Peter Bach of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Yet in Mississippi, where the vaccine could perhaps save the greatest number of lives, only 16 percent of teen girls in 2008 received the shot, called Gardasil, according to Bach's paper in Saturday's The Lancet. About 22 percent  

How might policymakers make reasonable decisions when they have limited information? That's the question Northwestern University's Charles F. Manski explores in his new paper, 'Vaccination With Partial Knowledge of External Effectiveness.' The paper is published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).