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Call For Free Chicken Pox Vaccine
Friday, 28 March 2014, 2:34 pm | Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
New Zealand health experts are today calling for the vaccine to protect children from Varicella-Zoster Virus - which causes chicken pox in children and shingles in adults – to be made free on New Zealand’s National Immunisation Schedule (NIS). ... More >>
Studies reveal infectious disease inequality continues in NZ
Thursday, 27 March 2014, 4:39 pm | Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
A study presented at this year’s Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) meeting in Adelaide, Australia, shows that infectious disease inequality in New Zealand’s population is continuing, while rates of streptococcal and staphylococcal disease ... More >>
Australia: Infectious diseases experts - stay away from bats
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 12:40 pm | Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases experts at a major international infectious diseases conference have issued a stark warning for people to stay away from bats, after releasing details of the treatment of an 8-year-old boy in Queensland, Australia, who died from Australian ... More >>
Link between vitamin D levels and developing tuberculosis
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 12:43 pm | Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
New research presented at this week’s Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) in Canberra, Australia, suggests a link between vitamin D levels and the risk of developing tuberculosis (TB), with rates of TB incidence ... More >>
Pertussis immunisation before pregnancy halves risk
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 12:29 pm | Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
The results of a study of the impact of a pertussis vaccine “cocooning” strategy for adults in New South Wales shows that a mother receiving the whooping cough vaccine before delivery lowers the risk of whooping cough (pertussis) infection in very young ... More >>
Measles spread easily from an infectious person on planes
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 12:24 pm | Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
New research published at this week’s Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) in Canberra, Australia, demonstrates that direct contact tracing of aeroplane passengers seated immediately around an infected ... More >>
