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Oct 07, 2013

Oct 07, 2013

News Scan for Oct 07, 2013

H5N1 death in Indonesia
Bomb attack on polio workers
Hand sanitizer benefits in schools
Resistance monitoring in India
Health disparities in Europe

Sep 10, 2013

Sep 10, 2013

News Scan for Sep 10, 2013

Possible MERS vaccine candidate
US Cyclospora cases
More poliovirus in Israel
UK drug-resistance plan

Aug 05, 2013

Aug 05, 2013

News Scan for Aug 05, 2013

MERS cluster profiled
Polio vaccination in Israel
H5N3 detected in Taiwan
H5N1 in Nepal, India

Jul 30, 2013

Jul 30, 2013

News Scan for Jul 30, 2013

Colombia ousts river blindness
Vaccine-derived polio in India
Danish Salmonella trends

Jul 22, 2013

Jul 22, 2013

News Scan for Jul 22, 2013

More Cyclospora cases
Polio in Somalia
Yellow fever vaccine in India

Jun 07, 2013

Jun 07, 2013

News Scan for Jun 07, 2013

Salmonella from chicks
African meningitis drop
Polio in India and Pakistan

Jun 06, 2013

Jun 06, 2013

News Scan for Jun 06, 2013

UN plea for disease funding
Islamic scholars and polio
Antibiotic resistance bill

Jan 03, 2013

Jan 03, 2013

WHO says polio drive must push on despite Pakistan setbacks

(CIDRAP News) – In the wake of recent killings of polio vaccinators in Pakistan, some questions are being raised about the all-out push to eradicate polio, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says the world can't afford to back off on the eradication drive now.

Oct 25, 2012

Oct 25, 2012

Polio day observations highlight successes, challenges

(CIDRAP News) – The world has the tools to eradicate polio, but it's unclear if countries have the political and social will to fully implement and finance emergency plans, a spokesman for the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) said yesterday to mark World Polio Day.

The observance is held on Oct 24, the birth date of Jonas Salk, the US virologist who invented the polio vaccine.

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