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MEASLES ELIMINATION IN CHINA AND WESTERN PACIFIC/ ...

  1) Measles Elimination in China and Western Pacific Of the six WHO regions, four, including the Western Pacific, are committed to time limited elimination of measles. Within WPR, China is by far the largest, accounting for more than h ... read more

IMPORTANCE OF URBAN MEASLES TRANSMISSION/ MEASLES ...

                                   CHILD SURVIVAL UPDATE 22/2009: THREE ON ... read more

PANUM ON MEASLES, SNOW ON CHOLERA

  CSU 23/2009: PANUM ON MEASLES, SNOW ON CHOLERA   With fear and trembling, I am stepping back from current topics for a while in order to run a few classics from the epidemiologists on whose shoulders we moderns stand. First two choices ... read more

CSU 48/2009: THREE ON MEASLES

CSU 48/2009: THREE ON MEASLES  WHO has been working overtime on measles.  Item 1) is the WHO Secretariat's report to the WHO Executive Board on prospects for measles eradication.  Item 2) is the measles discussion and recommendations ... read more

MEASLES OUTBREAKS: THREE LESSONS FROM THREE COUNTR ...

MEASLES OUTBREAKS: THREE LESSONS FROM THREE COUNTRIES From South Africa, we learn that failure to vaccinate was the main driver  in their recent outbreak, though vaccine take rates were somewhat lower in  HIV seropositives.   ... read more

TRAINING PACKAGE ON MEASLES CONTROL/ MEASLES MORTA ...

CSU 74/2009: FOUR ON MEASLES  The Measles Initiative is a partnership committed to reducing measles deaths globally. Launched in 2001, the Measles Initiative-led by the American Red Cross, the United Nations Foundation, the U ... read more

MEASLES IN 1845, MEASLES IN 1964, MEASLES TODAY

         CSU 04/2010: MEASLES IN 1845, MEASLES IN 1964, MEASLES TODAY   Good reading.   BD     1) MARK TWAIN ON MEASLES   In 19th century America, measles was cosmopolitan in i ... read more

TWO DOSES OF MEASLES VACCINE, WITH SPECIAL REFERE ...

Since India is home to 1/6 of the world's population, it figures importantly in any calculation of progress towards achievement of global objectives for measles mortality reduction. To the extent that Indian children, especially in the norther ... read more