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Meningitis: effectiveness of preventive vaccination demonstrated

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Health - Senegal

March 2007

In sub- Saharan Africa, in the region known as the “Meningitis Belt”, control of this disease is fuelling debate on the appropriate vaccination strategies to adopt: emergency vaccination, when an epidemic breaks out, or systematic, routine preventive vaccination? The only vaccine available on ...

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The insect vector always bites twice

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Health - Senegal

March 2007

Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria or sleeping sickness, are currently developing or spreading alarmingly in many tropical countries. The pathogens are passed on to humans by a biting insect when it takes its feed of blood. IRD immunologists, epidemiologists and entomologists are closely ...

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