- Hello Jeff - Not much to post except the outbreak of
(what might be a mutant form of HBV/HDV virus) is spreading and numbers
growing.
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- Desperation is evident in as much as mass vaccination
is commencing. Guess they cannot figure out what else to do.
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- What should be done is "clean up the health care
provider clinics." In previous post, it was theorized that the outbreak
was a result of health care providers' lack of sterile and sanitary practices.
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- So, it appears that the less than adequate health care
practices will continue but mass vaccination will be implemented to protect
people. Does not make much sense.
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- Patty
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- Virulent Form Of HBV Toll Rises To 43 Deaths
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- The Hindustani Times online
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- 2-25-8
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- The toll in the hepatitis-hit Sabarkantha district climbed
to 43 with the report of 5 new deaths. Meanwhile, state health department
launched a mass vaccination drive in Modasa town on Monday [23 Feb 2009].
According to district health officials, 6 new cases of hepatitis have been
registered on Monday from Modasa town and nearby villages. The officials
said that people of all ages had queued up since morning to get themselves
vaccinated.
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- "In the 1st phase we will be administering the hepatitis
B vaccine to around 60 000 people in Modasa, where we have set up 60 booths,"
Sabarkantha District Collector M. Thennarasan said. "We have block
level medical officers supervising the team at each booth with over 400
health workers including female health workers (FHWs) monitoring the vaccination
drive," Thennarasan said. He said that they have also deployed number
of mobile teams who will provide support wherever there is shortfall. The
team of experts have already vaccinated the medical and PHC staff and other
officials who are working in hospital with the hepatitis-infected patients,
he said.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also my
new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
Go with God and in Good Health
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