Latest Polio vaccine Stories

PARIS, November 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that Russia has chosen inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) from Sanofi Pasteur for primary immunization of all infants. The IPV doses are provided by M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Virus Encephalitides through a manufacturing agreement with Sanofi Pasteur. IPV vaccination started in the summer of 2008 as part of Russia National "Project Health." Four-million...

A recently introduced polio vaccine is four times more effective at protecting children than previous vaccines and has the potential to eradicate type 1 polio in Nigeria if it reaches enough children, according to a study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.Nigeria is one of only four countries in the world where polio has yet to be eliminated and 82% of global cases so far this year have been in Nigeria. Polio is highly infectious and it primarily affects children...

Significant Step in Merck's Efforts to Expand Global Access to Rotavirus Vaccine Media: Nalini Saligram, 215-652-9232 Amy Rose, 908-423-6537 OR Investors: Eva Boratto, 908-423-5185 ROTATEQ(R) (rotavirus vaccine, live, oral, pentavalent), the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine from Merck & Co., Inc., that helps prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants and children, has been awarded pre-qualification status by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO pre-qualification allows for expanded...

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Infectious diseases industry is available in its catalogue. World Human Vaccines Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p092575/World-Human-Vaccines-Market.html This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Human Vaccines in Millions of US$. The major product segments analyzed are Prophylactic Vaccines (Pediatric Prophylactic Vaccines, & Adult Prophylactic Vaccines), and Therapeutic Vaccines. The report provides...

Thomas Weller, a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue- culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible and won him a share in a Nobel Prize, has died aged 93. The 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mr Weller and two colleagues at Harvard, John Enders and Frederick Robbins, for their application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases. Vaccines for other viral diseases, like chicken pox and measles, also...

Text of report by Baqir Sajjad Syed headlined "UK alleges misuse of aid given for polio vaccine" published by Pakistan newspaper Dawn website on 30 June Islamabad, June 29: Britain has protested over what it calls misuse by the Finance Ministry of the 15 million assistance for procuring polio vaccine, according to sources in the British High Commission. The issue is likely to affect another 280 million British aid Pakistan expects to get under the National Health Facility Part-II for the...

U.S. researchers reported on Friday that a "wimpy" artificial virus protected mice against polio, and the approach might be used to make a range of safer new vaccines against viruses.In 2002, the team at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, created the first artificial virus.They then used it to vaccinate mice, and then infect the mice with what should have been a deadly dose of polio, but the mice survived."Ultimately we created a wimpy poliovirus that can be customized and...

ATLANTA and PHILADELPHIA, June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Highlights Include: -- GSK's ROTARIX(R) [Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral] recommended for routine vaccination of infants to protect against rotavirus gastroenteritis (RGE) -- ROTARIX, approved by the FDA on April 3, 2008, is the only rotavirus vaccine that offers completion of rotavirus immunization by four months of age in just two oral doses -- GSK's KINRIX(TM) [Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed and...

SWIFTWATER, Pa., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that its Pentacel(R), Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed, Inactivated Poliovirus and Haemophilus b Conjugate (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) Vaccine will be included in the federal government's Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted today...

GlaxoSmithKline has announced that the FDA has approved Kinrix, the first combination vaccine to offer protection against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio diseases in one shot. Kinrix (diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed and inactivated poliovirus vaccine], manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, is said to be the latest combination vaccine. Clinical studies of Kinrix have demonstrated that this new combination vaccine offers similar protection to the separately...