In Taiwan, the HBV vaccination programme began in 1984. Pregnant women undergo antenatal screening for HBsAg, and the babies of positive mothers are immunized within 24 h of birth with HBsAg and with ...

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After more than a year of politicized science and amid a wave of vaccine hesitancy, the long war against Covid-19 stands at a critical stage. Hope for an eradication akin to smallpox – or even a polio ...

The Niayes region of western Senegal has a coastal microclimate well suited for exotic breeds of cattle, the kind that produce more milk and meat than domestic stock. Yet the area also suffers from ...

In 1988, the World Health Assembly announced a very ambitious goal: Polio was to be vanquished by the year 2000. It was a reach, sure, but feasible. Although highly infectious, polioviruses affect ...

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The latest goal for the end of polio transmission will almost certainly not be met, according to a frank and concerning report about the future of the decades-long polio eradication effort that was ...

When it comes to eradicating infectious diseases, there can be no half measures: it’s an all-or-nothing proposition. For more than three decades, eradicating polio — removing it from the face of the ...

Marco Rivadeneira worked to organize rural communities to voluntarily abandon growing coca leaves for legal crops around Puerto Asís, the largest city in the Amazonian Colombian state of Putumayo. In ...