They emerged economically stronger than those that did not [44] implemented sterilized operating rooms, surgical procedures, and hand washing in hospitals. Vaccination is the stellar scientific advance born of outbreaks of infectious diseases. The cultural and political evolution of clothing had another ...
Ciblak MA. Influenza vaccination in Turkey: prevalence of risk groups, current vaccination status, factors influencing vaccine uptake and steps taken to increase vaccination rate. Vaccine. 2013;31(3):518–23. 32. Brydak LB, Woźniak Kosek A, Nitsch-Osuch A. Influenza vaccines and vaccinations...
According to Dr Lam, who was previously head of the Travellers’ Health and Vaccination Centre at Singapore’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the dengue risk for leisure travellers to Asia is “moderately high” and the disease is “highly endemic in Southeast Asia”. Generally, dengue symptoms include...
” Marchionni explained. However, it did find that influenza vaccination was associated with a higher risk of non-SARS coronavirus infection, offset by a lower risk of influenza, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and some other respiratory infections...
In the politically sensitive year of 1997, Hong Kong experienced an outbreak of avian flu when the deadly H5N1 virus unprecedentedly jumped the species barrier from chickens and infected human beings. Hong Kong decided to slaughter over a million chickens, and the virus was stopped in its tracks...
President Gerald Ford calls for a crash vaccination program. Despite delays, a vaccine is made and a quarter of the U.S. population is inoculated. There were 25 deaths from a rare paralytic complication of the vaccination (Guillain-Barre syndrome). Nobody else died of swine flu, which never...
Value of vaccination In recent years, the world faced new threats in the forms of the 1997 H5N1 bird flu and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and now, the influenza A … http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2009/5/20/health/3909433&sec=health May 20, 2009 Malaysia St...
In 1976, scientific and public opinion moved towards a hegemonic discourse of an all-knowing science. Vaccination and treatment with antibiotics were widespread and there was a feeling of rational scientific research had ‘beaten’ all pandemic threats. That was until what turned out to be Legionnai...
The aim of this work is to evaluate the attitudes, behaviours, and knowledge of health workers employed at an Italian University Hospital on the topic of vaccinations and in regard to flu vaccination. To this end, the study provided for the articulation of a computerised questionnaire on the di...
(in the USSR vaccination is conducted annually in the fourth quarter, before the start of the epidemics that usually arise in the first quarter); and treatment and prophylactic use of hyperimmune horse serum during the period of a developing outbreak, introduced as a powdery spray to the upper...