Measles

  • OSAP Responds to CDC Measles Advisory
    ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures (OSAP) has developed a special page on its Web site at www.osap.org in response to the April 3 CDC Health Advisory on recent measles outbreaks in the U.S. The page includes information specific to dental ...More
    April 8, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Investigating the Measles Virus as a Tool to Kill Multiple Myeloma
    Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has opened a new Phase I clinical trial testing an engineered measles virus against multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow that currently has no cure. This is the third of a series of molecular medicine studies in patients testing the ...More
    March 5, 2007
    Posted in News
  • Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children is Surpassed
    NEW YORK and GENEVA -- Measles deaths have fallen by 60 percent worldwide since 1999 -- a major public health success. This exceeds the United Nations goal to halve measles deaths between 1999 and 2005 and is largely due to an unprecedented decline in measles deaths in the ...More
    January 19, 2007
    Posted in News
  • CDC Urges Awareness of Measles in Americans Returning from Germany
    As American travelers go to and return from Germany for the World Cup soccer championship games, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises travelers and doctors to be aware that some travelers may have been exposed to the measles virus. Since Jan. 1, ...More
    June 23, 2006
    Posted in News
  • Vulnerability to Measles Infection Among Nursery School Children Has Risen Sharply in Scotland
    Vulnerability to measles infection has risen sharply among nursery school children in Scotland since 1998, despite recent increases in MMR uptake, reveals research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. There are now 25 postcode districts where ...More
    April 25, 2006
    Posted in News
  • New Study Shows Measles Immunization May Prevent Fatal Brain Infection
    A new study has found wild-type measles virus in tissues from patients who died of a fatal brain infection, providing evidence against the notion that the strain of virus in the measles vaccine caused the infection.  The study, in the Nov. 15 issue of the Journal of ...More
    October 31, 2005
    Posted in News
  • Newest Study Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
    A new systematic review of dozens of statistically sound studies has revealed “no credible evidence” that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine causes long-term disabilities such as autism or bowel disease. Some doctors and parents believe that a mercury-based ...More
    October 17, 2005
    Posted in News
  • Measles Identified in 12-Year-Old Lufthansa Passenger
    DETROIT -- The Michigan Department of Community Health is reporting that a 12-year-old passenger who was on board an Aug. 13 Lufthansa flight that landed at Detroit Metro Airport was contagious with measles. The child – a native of the Middle East and now a resident of ...More
    August 31, 2005
    Posted in News
  • Measles Elimination in the Western Pacific Region
    BEIJING and MANILA, Philippines -- Measles: normal childhood illness or killer disease?  Actually, it is both but it could soon be neither.  Measles has already been eliminated in the WHO Region of the Americas.  The challenge is for the rest of the world to ...More
    June 6, 2005
    Posted in News
  • MMR Vaccine Does Not Increase Risk of Crohn's Disease
    The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine does not increase the risk of Crohn's disease (chronic inflammation of the intestine), finds a study in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ). It has been hypothesized that the MMR vaccine increases the risk of Crohn's ...More
    May 13, 2005
    Posted in News
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