Measles-like virus killing dolphins in US

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 12:07

A measles-like virus may have caused the death of around 300 bottlenose dolphin along the Mid-Atlantic coast in the US, officials said.

At 40% immunisation deficit level, child mortality in India under severe threat!

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 19:50

If total immunisation has shown the way ahead for polio eradication in the country, then near about 40 percent deficit in immunisation for diseases such as measles, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus pose a serious threat to child mortality in the country.

Measles kills over 150 kids in Pakistan

Last Updated: Sunday, December 30, 2012, 19:07

Seven more children died of measles Sunday in Pakistan`s southern province of Sindh.

UN misses measles target with India the big laggard: Study

Last Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012, 22:59

UN countries have failed to meet a target for reducing the death toll from measles, mainly due to poor vaccine coverage in India and outbreaks in southern Africa, The Lancet reported today.

Ten children die of measles in Bihar

Last Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 11:21

At least 10 children died in a village in Bihar`s Madhubani district due to a disease commonly referred as `khasra` or measles.

Measles cases in Indiana rise to 17 for month

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 16:49

The number of people with measles in Indiana this month has grown to 17 with a fresh case linked to an unvaccinated person.

After Polio, India to eliminate Measles, Tetanus

Last Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 20:23

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the lessons learnt from success of polio campaign could help eliminate measles.

Anti-measles campaign starts in Meghalaya

Last Updated: Monday, October 10, 2011, 15:37

The centrally-aided anti-measles vaccination programme aimed at covering nearly 99 per cent of children in Meghalaya began in four districts Monday.

Kids dying after vaccination for measles rarest of rare: Gujarat Health Minister

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 00:22

The death of four kids, all below the age of one year, after they were administered a vaccine for measles in Anjar taluka of Kutch district last week was a `rarest of rare case`, Jaynarayan Vyas said.

Three children die of measles in Uttarakhand

Last Updated: Sunday, September 12, 2010, 18:27

Three children died of measles in a village in Uttarakhand`s Champawat district prompting authorities to rush medical teams to the area to check spread of the viral disease.

FIR lodged against unnamed people in vaccination deaths

Last Updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 16:01

No one has been named in a first information report (FIR) lodged in the deaths of four infants during a routine immunisation drive in Lucknow.

`Poisonous anti-measles vaccine killed 4 kids in Damoh`

Last Updated: Monday, March 15, 2010, 19:35

The anti-measles vaccine which resulted in the death of four infants in Damoh district had turned poisonous as it was used more than three hours after its powder was mixed with a solvent, a health official said on Monday.