One of India’s great public health achievements of the last few years has been eradicating wild-type polio infections. Now, an article in the current PLoS Medicine is sure to ruffle feathers amongst those committed to global polio eradication by questioning whether polio can or should be eradicated by 2018. An independent expert board has concluded that […]
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Large study shows #HPV vaccines have no serious side effects #hpvvaccine
India’s recent but already notorious Indian Parliamentary report on HPV vaccine trials is looking odder and odder. According to FIGO (the global professional body for obstetricians and gynaecologists), “a large-scale study in Sweden and Denmark has established that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine does not carry a risk of serious adverse reactions.” The study from Karolinska followed a million […]
Royal birth imminent after drop in value of the rupee — it must be linked #pentavalent #vaccines
The Duchess of Cambridge is about to give birth in London. The felicitous news follows a sudden drop in the value of the Indian rupee against the US dollar. Are the two events related? Surely they must be, one followed the other. Can a connection be established? Not definitively but, who can say, maybe the […]