The second patient to die in Kenya was a close relative of the index patient.
A study highlights how office staff communicate about vaccines with families and the need to integrate best practices into pediatric care.
The province has the world’s highest rates of the fatal neurodegenerative disease in animals such as deer, elk, and moose.
Compliance with isolation and quarantine guidance and public health messaging may have helped control the outbreak, which involved 26 cases.
Both a new system to pay doctors for reporting vaccine harms and a new clinic are built in a way that will increase recorded injuries whether or not actual injuries rise.
The measles vaccine is less effective when given to infants at 6 months, but likely still protective against severe complications
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An analysis finds that, while all regions were affected, low-resource areas were hit hardest.
Also, Kenyan officials confirm a 9th case in that country, 4 of which have been in healthcare workers.
"One of the challenges that we have today is trust, and that trust is really difficult to respond to when you have a US government, a senior health official, making claims about the danger of vaccines."
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