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The first Hib vaccine was introduced in Canada in 1987 for two year old children. The initial polysaccharide Hib vaccine was not effective in infants. A 1988 study in Pediatrics stated, “it was known that the vaccine induced essentially no antibody response...

Europe’s diphtheria outbreaks in the 1940s provide a sobering context for modern anti-vaccination claims. When the Strangling Angel was at her strongest in Norway and Germany, 715 people each day were infected. She took refuge in the throats and...

Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Health has warned about the risk of diphtheria outbreaks spreading from Laos through the border area into Vietnam. According to the ministry's Preventive Medicine Department, from June to October, diphtheria outbreaks were...

India tops new global slavery index The Global Slavery Index 2013, which surveyed 162 nations, was compiled by Australia-based rights organisation Walk Free Foundation using a definition of modern slavery that includes debt bondage, forced marriage...

They look like normal black-and-white Holstein cows, a common sight in Western Iowa. But these cows are special: used not for their milk or meat, but for their blood. They’re plasma donors, and one day, the life they save may be your own. The cows were...