Catherine SnowdonHealth Producer Getty Images Thousands of pharmacies in England will offer free NHS flu spray doses to toddlers for the first time this year. The vaccination is given via a child’s nose and two and three-year-olds could previously access them at their GP surgery. Around 4,000 pharmacies have signed up to deliver the vaccine … Read more
Sharon BarbourHealth correspondent, BBC North East and Cumbria Supplied Baby Saskia had the typical measles rash Nowhere in the north-east of England and Cumbria has the childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate of 95% needed to achieve the “herd immunity” at which point disease does not spread, latest figures show. Middlesbrough has the … Read more
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The recent deaths of three young girls following rabies, in separate incidents in Pathanamthitta, Malappuram and Kollam, in spite of post-exposure prophylaxis with anti-rabies vaccine as well as rabies immunoglobulin, have yet again brought attention to the need to protect children with pre-exposure prophylaxis vaccination. Pre-exposure prophylaxis for children in a highly rabies-endemic State like … Read more
Progress in vaccinating children against a variety of life-threatening diseases has stalled in the past two decades – and even gone backwards in some countries – a new global study suggests. The situation has been made worse by the Covid pandemic, leaving millions of children unprotected from diseases such as measles, tuberculosis and polio. The researchers … Read more
Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu A seven-year-old girl from Pathanapuram in Kollam district died of rabies at the SAT wing of the Government Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday (May 5, 2025.) On April 8, a stray dog attacked the child, Niya Faisal, while she was playing in front … Read more
The Directorate of Public Health (DPH) has announced that arrangements have been made for the vaccination of persons undertaking the Haj in the coming days. As many as 5,675 of the 1,75,025 people are travelling from Tamil Nadu, according to the Director of Public Health T.S. Selvavinayagam. The Union government had provided 8,025 doses … Read more
Paul Kelly Paul Kelly, whose turkey business has previously been hit by bird flu, is among those calling for a vaccination scheme for poultry Poultry farmers are appealing to the government to let them vaccinate their flocks against the “devastating” bird flu virus spreading across the UK. Vaccinating poultry against avian influenza is currently not … Read more
A file photo of a BBMP health worker administering a vaccine against COVID-19 in Bengaluru. Following Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s recent announcement that the State will take up a vaccination drive, if necessary, to immunise the unvaccinated population, the Health Department has now sought the COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee’s (TAC) recommendations on guidelines for the drive. … Read more
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