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RESURGENT MEASLES IN THE US, 2008

  RESURGENT MEASLES IN THE US, 2008  This recent editorial from the New York Times highlights the near doubling, in 2008, of measles cases. The resurgence of measles owes much ...

SEASONALITY AND THE PERSISTENCE AND INVASION OF ME ...

 CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 32/2008: SEASONALITY AND THE PERSISTENCE AND INVASION OF MEASLESThe UN believes that more than half the world's people now live in townsand cities. It is therefore incum ...

MEASLES PRE-ELIMINATION GOAL, WHO/AFRO

CSU 23/2008: MEASLES PRE-ELIMINATION GOAL  PRE-ELIMINATION OF MEASLES, WHO/AFRO  Until quite recently, the African region of WHO has been committed to  measles mortality redu ...

REVIEW ON AEROSOL MEASLES VACCINES/ FEASIBILITY OF ...

Dear All,  CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 20/2008: TWO ON MEASLES/BOOK REVIEW/READER FEEDBACK (2)  1) AEROSOL MEASLES VACCINE  In this abstract, available in full to Vaccine ...

GLOBAL MEASLES UPDATE

CSU 9/2008: GLOBAL MEASLES UPDATE  Except for breast feeding, which is free, measles vaccination is the most cost effective life saving intervention in the armamentarium of public healt ...

POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES

� CSU 5/2008: POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES/ACPE PRESENTATION/WHO� POLIO RESOLUTION� � � 1) RESPONSE TO READER QUERY: POLIO COMPARED TO MEASLES� � In the first update of 2008, I asked reader ...

MEASLES ELIMINATION IN AUSTRALIA AND 17 EUROPEAN C ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 14/2008: TWO ON MEASLES  1) MEASLES ELIMINATION IN AUSTRALIA AND 17 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES  The present decade, starting with the 2001 creation of the Measles P ...

EQUALITY OF ACCESS FOR MEASLES VACCINATION/ AEROSO ...

CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 13/2008: THREE ON MEASLES/READER FEEDBACK   1) HIGHER MEASLES VACCINATION COVERAGE AND EQUALITY OF ACCESS  In their review of data from 21 Demographic an ...

NEW LOOK ON MI HOMEPAGE; CONTRIBUTION OF ROUTINE V ...

   READER FEEDBACK ON MEASLES Readers Athalia Christie and Robert Steinglass both respond to the update on progress of measles mortality reduction.   Athalia reminds all students of ...

POPULATION IMMUNITY TO MEASLES IN ZAMBIAN CHILDREN ...

CSU 9/2009: Population Immunity to Measles in Zambian Children  Writing in a recent number of  The Lancet, Sara Lowther and colleagues show absence of measles vaccination antibodies in ...

MEASLES ELIMINATION IN CHINA AND WESTERN PACIFIC/ ...

  1) Measles Elimination in China and Western Pacific Of the six WHO regions, four, including the Western Pacific, are committed to time limited elimination of measles. Within WPR, China ...

IMPORTANCE OF URBAN MEASLES TRANSMISSION/ MEASLES ...

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PANUM ON MEASLES, SNOW ON CHOLERA

  CSU 23/2009: PANUM ON MEASLES, SNOW ON CHOLERA   With fear and trembling, I am stepping back from current topics for a while in order to run a few classics from the epidemiologists on wh ...

CSU 48/2009: THREE ON MEASLES

CSU 48/2009: THREE ON MEASLES  WHO has been working overtime on measles.  Item 1) is the WHO Secretariat's report to the WHO Executive Board on prospects for measles eradication.  Item ...

MEASLES OUTBREAKS: THREE LESSONS FROM THREE COUNTR ...

MEASLES OUTBREAKS: THREE LESSONS FROM THREE COUNTRIES From South Africa, we learn that failure to vaccinate was the main driver  in their recent outbreak, though vaccine take rates were some ...

AMRIRIA PRONECT/ OPTIMUM AGE FOR MEASLES VACCINATI ...

AMMRIRIRA PROJECT/ OPTIMUM AGE FOR MEASLES VACCINATION/ MEASLES IN BERLIN/ IN MEMORIAM, UMARU YAR'ADUA 1) Approved Statement on AMMRIRIA Project for Task Force and Partner Websites For Immediate Rel ...

PANUM ON MEASLES IN THE FAROE ISLANDS

PANUM  ON MEASLES IN THE FAROE ISLANDS   Peter Panum's classic Observations Made During The Epidemic of Measles on The Faroe Islands inThe Year 1846 describes in detail a virgin soil outbr ...

TRAINING PACKAGE ON MEASLES CONTROL/ MEASLES MORTA ...

CSU 74/2009: FOUR ON MEASLES  The Measles Initiative is a partnership committed to reducing measles deaths globally. Launched in 2001, the Measles Initiative-led by the Americ ...

EVIDENCE ON MEASLES VACCINATION/ EVIDENCE ON TWO D ...

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THE RESEARCH AGENDA FOR MEASLES

  CSU 61/2010:   THE RESEARCH AGENDA FOR MEASLES  Writing in the PanAfrican Medical Journal, Robin Biellik proposes research priorities for measles as the world moves from measle ...

BAD PRACTICES IN MEASLES VACCINATION

                             CSU 08/2010: Bad Practices in M ...

MEASLES ERADICATION DISCUSSIONS AT THE WORLD HEAL ...

CSU 66/2010:  MEASLES ERADICATION DISCUSSIONS AT THE WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY On 20 May, the World Health Assembly reviewed the Secretariat report (see URL address and excerpts, below, along with a ...

MEASLES IN 1845, MEASLES IN 1964, MEASLES TODAY

         CSU 04/2010: MEASLES IN 1845, MEASLES IN 1964, MEASLES TODAY   Good reading.   BD     1) MARK TWAIN ON MEASLES   In 1 ...

TWO DOSES OF MEASLES VACCINE, WITH SPECIAL REFERE ...

Since India is home to 1/6 of the world's population, it figures importantly in any calculation of progress towards achievement of global objectives for measles mortality reduction. To the exte ...

REVISED WHO POSITION PAPER ON MEASLES VACCINE, 200 ...

The World Health Organization reissued its 2004 measles position paper, with revisions, in 2009. The abridged version appears below. The full version, in English and French, is at http://www.who.int/w ...