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FDA approves new RSV vaccine; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Children, covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter, respiratory, sars-cov-2 / By Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi A panel advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week recommended that it approve a vaccine given to pregnant people to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which can cause severe lung infections. https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-china-s-ethics-oversight-arpa-h-s-new-science-and-210-million-protein? The vote was unanimous …

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Pfizer announces promising results for RSV vaccine

Leave a Comment / Children, Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter / By chris

Barney Graham, a former scientist at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was thrilled when Pfizer announced encouraging results from an experimental vaccine that could protect against a major childhood killer. In a press release, the company said immunizing pregnant women with its vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) protected their babies from severe …

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A new viral infection referred to as Tomato FLu, first detected in children in Kerala in May, has spread to two other states of India

Leave a Comment / Children, infectious diseases / By chris

An outbreak of a new viral infection referred to as tomato flu that was first detected in children in the southern Indian state of Kerala in May has spread to two other states of the country.

Journée Mondiale du Moustique 2022: Le changement climatique pourrait aider les moustiques porteurs du paludisme

Leave a Comment / Children, Malaria, Paludisme / By chris

L’Afrique est confrontée à de nouveaux défis dans sa lutte contre le paludisme

World Mosquito Day 2022: Climate change could threaten to expand malaria transmissions in Africa

Leave a Comment / Children, Featured, Malaria, Non Communicable Diseases / By chris

Africa faces new challenges in its fight against malaria: the climate is becoming more mosquito friendly just as the insects are evolving to evade the insecticides and the malaria parasites are becoming resistant to medicines that have brought down deaths. In 2020, the World Health Organization estimated approximately 90% of malaria cases and 92% of deaths occurred in Africa. Over 600,000 African children died of malaria in that year alone.

Un déclin surprenant des chiffres de la vaccination des enfants en Afrique dans le contexte du COVID-19, encore une autre victime de la pandémie

Leave a Comment / Children, covid, infectious diseases, pan-Africa / By chris

Selon l’UNICEF, 23 millions d’enfants dans le monde n’ont pas reçu de vaccins essentiels dans le cadre des services de vaccination de routine à cause de la pandémie de COVID-19.

An astonishing decline in child immunisation numbers in Africa amid the rage of COVID-19, yet another victim of the pandemic

Leave a Comment / Children, covid, Featured, infectious diseases, News, pan-Africa / By chris

UNICEF reports that a staggering 23 million children worldwide missed out on essential vaccines through routine immunisation services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the Day of the African Child, 16th April 2022, we take an in-depth look into how African children were affected by this plight, as seen through the eyes of local communities.

How a Malawi Village is Fighting Malaria and Saving Lives

Leave a Comment / Children, Malaria, Malawi / By chris

Malawi had nearly 7 million malaria cases last year, more than a third of the population, with 2,500 lives lost to the mosquito-borne disease. However, one village – Mwikala village in Machinga district – has become a model for how to eradicate malaria and in June was honoured as the first-ever to have zero malaria …

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