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NEWS SCAN: 'Last resort' antibiotic use, global polio progress, possible DeCoster charges, measles in Pakistan

 

NEWS SCAN: Funds to fight Ebola, plague; beef product plants closing; European measles pace slows

May 8, 2012

 

Global groups renew measles push as drop in deaths slows

(CIDRAP News) – Global health officials are making headway with driving down the number of measles deaths, but there are signs that progress is stalling, a pattern that has kept nations from meeting a global mortality benchmark, researchers reported today.

Lisa Schnirring
 

CDC: Measles cases quadrupled in 2011

(CIDRAP News) – In 2011 the United States saw the highest number of measles cases in 15 years, four times higher than a typical year, with many of the cases linked to foreign travel, especially to Europe, federal health officials said today.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Listing beef product on labels, measles vaccine study

Apr 2, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Change of plan for Army lab, contract for flu drug, reassortant H3N2 in turkeys, US TB rate, measles in Europe

Mar 22, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Cost jump for ag defense lab, pneumococcal vaccine in kids, Olympics measles warning

Mar 20, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in cats, H1N1 surveillance, joint cholera efforts, Ukraine measles outbreak, fecal transplants

Mar 15, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: E coli treatment, antibiotic resistance in EU, flu vaccine in preschoolers, measles-shot warnings, Lyme disease risk

Mar 14, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Flu vaccine applications, drinking water success, measles in Yemen and Europe, polio in Pakistan

Mar 6, 2012

 

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