National Sep 20, 2019
In bid to contain swine fever outbreak, Japan's farm ministry announces plan to vaccinate pigs
The ministry saw the move as inevitable after the first outbreak in the country in 26 years was confirmed in September last year.
World / Science & Health Sep 2, 2019
Clock is ticking on N.Y. deadline for student vaccinations amid measles epidemic
When New York lawmakers revoked a religious exemption for mandatory school vaccinations, the change sent thousands of the state's parents scrambling to get their kids shots — or get them out of the classroom entirely. Lawmakers did away with the exemption in June amid the ...
World / Science & Health Aug 29, 2019
Every region in the world, except the Americas, is experiencing an increase in the number of cases of measles, a vaccine-preventable disease that can kill or disable children, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. The WHO's Kate O'Brien put the blame on weak health ...
World / Science & Health Aug 15, 2019
Israeli flight attendant dies after contracting measles on jet from New York
An Israeli flight attendant has died months after contracting measles on a flight from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel's health ministry and local media said Wednesday. Rotem Amitai, 43, and a mother of three, was hospitalized in March following the flight with Israeli airline ...
World / Science & Health Aug 14, 2019
Measles cases nearly tripled globally during the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, amid growing concern over public resistance to the vaccine. So far this year, 364,808 measles cases were reported around ...
World / Science & Health Aug 13, 2019
The first chlamydia vaccine encouragingly triggered an immune response in women during preliminary clinical trials and was found to be safe, researchers said Tuesday. Further trials, starting later this year, will show whether the vaccine actually protects against the sexually transmitted disease (STD), they reported ...
World / Science & Health Aug 12, 2019
The World Health Organisation said it has vaccinated over 1,300 people who potentially came into contact with the Ebola virus in the Congolese city of Goma, helping contain what many feared would be a rapid spread in an urban center. A year-long Ebola outbreak in ...
National Aug 2, 2019
People involved with Tokyo Olympics to be encouraged to get measles and rubella vaccinations
The government has put together a program to tackle infectious diseases ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, including a plan to encourage those involved in the event to get measles and rubella vaccinations. Through the plan, Japan hopes to prevent the further spread ...
National / Science & Health Jun 29, 2019
Japanese envoy and UNICEF press for childhood vaccinations amid rise in misinformation
Japan's envoy to the United Nations joined forces with the head of UNICEF on Friday to push the world to make sure as many children as possible are vaccinated against potentially fatal diseases amid a rise in misinformation about immunization programs. "Ensuring and scaling up ...
National Jun 21, 2019
Japan to provide 1.3 million vaccines to kids in developing countries as part of U.N. SDG targets
The government said Friday it will provide vaccines to around 1.3 million children in developing countries in line with U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, which address such issues as poverty, inequality, climate and peace. The update to Tokyo's action plan for achieving the U.N. goals by ...
World / Science & Health Jun 11, 2019
U.S. measles outbreak spreads to Idaho and Virginia, hitting 1,022 cases
The worst U.S. measles outbreak in a quarter-century spread to Idaho and Virginia last week as public health authorities on Monday reported 41 new cases of the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease. The U.S. has recorded 1,022 cases of the diseases this year as ...
World / Science & Health Jun 7, 2019
1 in 4 Ebola cases go undetected or are caught too late in Congo: WHO
Roughly a quarter of Ebola infections in eastern Congo are estimated to be going undetected or found too late, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Thursday. Some 2,025 cases and 1,357 deaths have been recorded since the epidemic began in August in the ...