Dhaka, May 14 (bdnews24.com)—The government has fallen into the trap of oral cholera vaccine on which the ICDDR,B is conducting a feasibility study in the capital’s Mirpur area, health rights activists say. They told a press conference on Saturday that there were no government records of cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh at least in the last […]
Bangladesh to hold massive cholera vaccine trial
AFP Press Release DHAKA — Bangladesh will on Thursday launch the world’s largest trial of a cheap oral cholera vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of lives every year it if proves successful, health officials said. The World Health Organization estimates that up to five million people worldwide contract cholera each year, with 120,000 […]
22m children immunised
Bangladesh News Online Dhaka, Feb 12 (bdnews24.com) – An estimated 22 million under-five children have been vaccinated against polio. As many as 18 million children, between two and five years of age, were also given one de-worming tablet each under the second round of the 19th National Immunisation Day on Saturday. Expanded Programme of Immunisation […]
