Philadelphia Tribuneadded this to Philadelphia Tribune March 20Measles Back In The Day: Measles outbreak stirs memoriesphillytrib.com - Alonzo Kittrels TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT Watching television, listening to the radio or reading newspapers today has made us aware of the recent measles outbreak. If you grew up prior to …
Pakistan CM urges Ulema to play role in anti-polio campaign | Associated Press Of Pakistanapp.com.pk - Uploader LAHORE, May 25 (APP):Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Saturday urged the Ulema to play their vital role in making anti-polio campaign …
The New York Timesadded this to WorldWorld News To Calm Nervous Families, Pakistan Changes Polio Vaccination TacticsThe New York Times - By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.After serious setbacks in April led to a cluster of new polio cases, Pakistan is revamping its vaccination strategy in a renewed effort to wipe out the virus. The country is one of just three — along Afghanistan
Liberal View Measles Makes a Comeback, Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers | The Smirking Chimpsmirkingchimp.com - www.smirkingchimp.com For those of us who were schoolchildren during the 1950s, lining up for vaccinations against childhood diseases was much scarier than the "duck and …
MMLB.comBill & Melinda Gates Foundation End Polio NightMLB.com Join the Seattle Mariners and Washington State Rotary's fight to help end polio. Enjoy a night of baseball and specialty priced tickets when you …
The Conversation UKadded this to Conversation UKPhilanthropy Philanthropy's bad reputation could put big donors off giving – here's why it mattersThe Conversation UK - Beth Breeze Within hours of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, half a billion Euros had been raised in donations by leading French business people and their families …
GGerald Walkeradded this to VaccinationSmallpox Vaccination: A brief and sadly necessary history of its life-saving powersthespinoff.co.nz - Ayelet Zoran-Rosen The privilege many 21st-century parents think they have – to choose what illness will befall their children and how they will recover from it – is a …
Bill Gates Bill Gates brings message of hope for total eradication of polio to Rotary International conference in Spokanespokesman.com - www.spokesman.com A goal that seemed nearly impossible just decades ago is now within reach: total eradication of polio.In 1994, the highly infectious disease that …
Disease An update from the fight to eradicate poliogatesnotes.com - By Bill Gates I was born just a few months after the first polio vaccine became available. When I was a kid, I had no idea how lucky I was. Just three years …
Vaccines Why Vaccines are Important?gildshire.com - Elvira Barucija “If you are not vaccinating your children, why are you taking them to doctors once they are sick,” these are the words of an angry mother whose child …
Bill Gates Bill & Melinda Gates: Investing in Global Health Is Saving Lives, So We Can't Stop Nowglobalcitizen.org - By Jackie Marchildon The Gateses have invested $10 billion into global health initiatives in the last 20 years. Achieving good health and well-being for all is essential …
aalam01added this to VaccinationVaccines THE IMPORTANCE OF VACCINATION- FIVE REASONS WHY VACCINATION IS IMPORTANTinfobyme.com - INFOBYME Vaccines, the most important factor which every family needs to understand its importance and benefits. We have seen many people with confusions …
Abortion Oriaku Njoku & Jill Heaviside on Abortion Rights in Georgia and Beyondfair.org - CounterSpin This week on CounterSpin: Republicans have been passing laws restricting access to abortion in various ways for years now, but Alabama has just passed …
The Hindu Groupadded this to BusinessLineAllahabad Made in heaven, validated in Allahabadthehindubusinessline.com - Sarita Brara For people with disabilities, marriage means more than tying the knot For physically challenged persons, finding a life partner is not easy. And this …
Liberal View WaPo Must Acknowledge CIA Role in Pakistan Polio Crisiscommondreams.org - Adam Johnson If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that it’s much easier to blame “fake news” than to look in the mirror and see how one’s own …
Ebola Fights to end polio, contain Ebola made tougher by rising violence, research findsreuters.com - Ellen Wulfhorst, Thomson Reuters FoundationNEW YORK, May 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Documented attacks on health workers in conflict areas increased dramatically last year, endangering both children waiting for polio vaccines and efforts
Aboriginal Canadians Health choices must be based in realitywindspeaker.com I have just gotten over a terrible flu. I felt miserable for 10 days and this sickness lingered on giving me congestion in my lungs, problems with my …
Liberal View ACTIVISM UPDATE: WaPo Editor Responds on Polio, Pakistan and the CIAfair.org - Jim Naureckas Washington Post editor Martin Baron responded to FAIR’s recent action alert (5/14/19) calling on the Post to acknowledge the role of CIA deception in …
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPakistan The women defying menace and mistrust to rid Pakistan of polioThe Guardian - Lucy Lamble in KarachiA hoax video showing children falling ill after polio vaccinations underlines the obstacles facing health workers for whom danger has become a way of life It began with a rumour, a breathless video circulating
Al Jazeeraadded this to Central/South Asia NewsVaccines Anti-vaxxers stand in way of Pakistan's final fight against polioAl Jazeera - Sabrina ToppaVaccine refused because of misinformation and after fake vaccination campaign by CIA in 2011 to find Osama bin Laden. Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan - At 11am on a Saturday, Tayyaba Gul
Virginia Virginia boy battling polio-like symptoms gets letter from President Trumpwcyb.com - WSET ROANOKE, Va. (WSET) -- The Roanoke boy battling a rare, polio-like disease is still fighting, but his family said he's physically and mentally …
The Wall Street Journal.Vaccination Vaccines Made the Iron Lung ObsoleteThe Wall Street Journal. - Bob GreeneThanks to brilliant medical researchers, many schoolchildren have never even heard of polio. Just off U.S. route 30 in western Nebraska, on Buffalo Bill Avenue, sits the Lincoln County Historical Museum.
Chennai Despite being polio-affected, she made a ‘world’ of her ownnewindianexpress.com - www.newindianexpress.com CHENNAI: I lived in a home in Tirunelveli with my parents and four siblings. I was affected by polio at a young age; my legs do not function …
The Heart of Black America via EBONY Magazineadded this to Black Entertainment & CultureFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo March of Dimes Takes on Premature Birth Rates and Health Equity in the Black Community EBONYebony.com - Jorian Seay In this country, maternal and infant death is a health crisis. Rates of maternal death have more than doubled in the past 25 years. And black …
The Washington Postadded this to Post Editors' PicksWorld News Pakistan had all but eliminated polio. Then things went badly wrong.The Washington Post - By Haq Nawaz Khan, Pamela ConstableThe virus was so close to being wiped out. Millions of young children had been repeatedly inoculated, and in March older ones were added in a final nationwide vaccine push to ensure that Pakistan — one
The Washington PostVaccines The world is close to conquering polio. Humans are holding us back.The Washington Post - By Editorial BoardA SIMPLE fact: The main obstacle to a world free of polio is not science, biology or virology. Rather, it is guns, fear and fake news. The world’s long and ambitous quest to conquer polio has come tantalizingly
Business Insideradded this to PoliticsFranklin Delano Roosevelt How FDR kept his partial paralysis a secret from the American public — even while he was on the campaign trailBusiness Insider - Tom PorterThis spring marks 73 years since the death of one of America's iconic presidents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is renowned as the president the country through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century:
Cincinnati Enquireradded this to Top stories from Cincinnati.comVaccines Our history: Sabin and Salk competed for safest polio vaccinecincinnati.com - Jeff Suess Dr. Albert B. Sabin waited at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital on April 24, 1960, for the first children to arrive to take his new oral polio …
The TelegraphVaccines Arson, panic and anti-vaxxers: The vaccination scare which threatens the global war on polioThe Telegraph - By Ben FarmerThe one-storey health clinic in Masho Khel had for more than three decades cared for the sickly children, expectant mothers and ailing elders who turned up at its gate each day. In a village of few amenities,
New Scientistadded this to New ScientistVaccines Every country worldwide is now using the most effective polio vaccinenewscientist.com - By Chelsea Whyte Mongolia and Zimbabwe have added the inactivated polio vaccine to their routine immunisation programmes. They were the last two countries in the …
