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Mumino Ahmed (custard color scarf) brought in baby Abrahim Mohammed, 4 months old, for vaccinations. She lives an hour away in Washington IDP camp. She remains with 10 children after loosing 3 to various reasons.
Mariam Mahamud, Head of the Badbaado Health center, Gambool, Garowe town (dark brown scarf and white jacket - not in this picture). She opened the center in 2010. Today at the Badbaado Health Center there is vaccination campaign for Penta 3 (for prevention of 5 diseases in children) and OBV (polio vaccine). With donations from KFW, UNICEF is supporting the OTP screening and treatment of malnutrition with RUTF, vaccinations (funded by GAVI) and supplies for the center.
They vaccinate around 7-10 babies a day, 6 days a week. ©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill
Maryam Abdi (2 years old) and Hawa Abdi (3 years old) (red dresses) just received their vaccines for measles, polio and penta 3. Mother Fatum Mahmed heard about the importance of immunizing her children when the mobilizers came to her door.
Nurses are working at the Jawle Health Center mobile vaccine clinic in Garowe, is set up in the Jawle IDP camp Mother and Baby center. The clinic moves to different places around the IDP camps 3 days a week so that they can reach many people. UNICEF works through EPI donors like GAVI to supports partner organizations like World Vision, Save the Children, CRC and the Puntland Ministry of Health. Many pastoralists are coming to the IDP camp here because the drought is killing off their livestock. There has been outbreaks of diseases and so this year there will be 2 rounds of an integrated vaccination campaigns (one was in March the next is in November) to immunize for measles and polio along with vitamin A supplementation and deworming.
In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose.
The Jawle Health Center in Garowe are seeing an increase in the number of malnourished children as the drought continues. In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose.
©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill
Jonas Salk with Basil O'Connor and John Enders
(Original Caption) 8/26/1954-New York, NY- Dr. Jonas Salk (L), discoverer of the Salk vaccine for polio; Basil O'Connor (C), president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; and Dr. John Enders, Harvard University professor and chief of Boston Children's Hospital's research division, are pictured aboard the S.S. Independence before sailing to Rome and the 3rd International Poliomyelitis Congress. Mr. O'Connor will preside over the Congress, and Doctors Salk and Enders will discuss their work
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Year 2005 Star of Hope ambulance started its services in Santos, Brazil.
The main objective is to offer basic health care among children at nursery schools in the slum areas in Santos. All the children in the program receives immunization and will meet health care proffessionals on regular basis.
Star of Hope would like to increase the services to other cities. If you would like to sponsor our health care program in Brazil please contact www.starofhope.org
(C) Dennis Thern
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FDA Lays Out Annual Covid Shot Plan Similar to Flu
(Bloomberg) -- Americans are about to get a clearer idea of how often they’ll roll up their sleeves for Covid-19 shots when advisers to US regulators meet Thursday to discuss an immunization schedule that looks more like the one used for flu.
The plan would have health officials meet each June to review which strains of the virus should be included in Covid shots to be deployed no later than September of the same year, according to documents released by the US Food and Drug Administration ahead of the Jan. 26 meeting.
Experts from around the world convene annually to make predictions about which flu strains will dominate during the upcoming season and, thus, should be targeted by shots. The FDA is looking for a similar coordinated effort to take place at least as often for Covid shots, one of several changes the agency hopes might help simplify the immunization process and encourage more Americans to stay up to date.
Waning immunity from vaccinations and the emergence of new variants every few months has led regulators to recommend variant-targeted boosters, a tactic that so far has been unpopular among Americans and has even split some health experts on costs and benefits. Just weeks after rolling out the updated BA.4 and BA.5 boosters in September, new mutations were rampant. Now, even as the US sees the rise of an immune-evasive variant called XBB.1.5, booster uptake is hovering at about 15%.
“Although the use of the bivalent mRNA boosters is supported by the available evidence, their deployment has been associated with significant implementation complexities,” the FDA said. Switching to one composition for both primary shots and boosters will help streamline the process, according to the agency documents.
Evidence suggests that immunity from prior exposure to the virus along with vaccination will provide enough protection so that most people will need one annual Covid booster, according to the documents. However, young children who might not have been previously exposed and people who are at higher risk for severe disease may need two yearly shots, the FDA said.
“An annual vaccine would be ideal because people would remember, they can do it with other vaccinations like flu and it can last,” Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Covid vaccine-maker Pfizer Inc., said Jan. 18 in an interview with Bloomberg.
The FDA is still concerned about evasion of vaccine-induced immunity by mutants of the fast-spreading omicron strain, according to the documents. That warrants continued surveillance of variants and also monitoring of the protection previous vaccines provide against new strains.
Pfizer and Moderna Inc. are both working on next-generation vaccines that hold up against mutations and provide longer-lasting protection, but it’s unlikely those will be ready to go into arms anytime soon.
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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5, CA.3.1, and CH.1.1 exhibit remarkable antibody resistance
In a recent study posted to bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers at Ohio State University examined the degree of neutralizing antibody (nAb) evasion by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron XBB.1.5, CA.3.1, and CH.1.1 subvariants.
Several subvariants have emerged from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron, some showing relatively higher immune evasion, threatening vaccination efficacy. The BQ.1.1 sub-variant was the most prevalent following months of BA.5 predominance in the United States. Nonetheless, it is being quickly replaced by XBB.1.5. The XBB lineage was first detected in India as a recombinant of BA.2.75 and BA.2.10.1.1. Its emergence was alarming since it contained numerous mutations with established immune escape characteristics.
The effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), mono- or bivalent vaccines, and infection-induced immunity were reduced against XBB. The XBB lineage acquired two additional substitutions in the spike, resulting in XBB.1 and XBB.1.5 subvariants, and their impact remains unknown. In addition, the CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 subvariants of Omicron have been notable lately, as they carry the L452R substitution in the spike, previously discovered in the Delta and Omicron BA.4/5 variants.
The study and findings
In the present study, researchers evaluated the spike protein biology of emergent SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants XBB.1.5, CA.3.1, and CH.1.1. First, they assessed the infectivity of spike-pseudotyped lentiviruses in HEK293T-ACE2 cells expressing human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and Calu-3 cell line. XBB.1 and XBB.1.5 had higher infectivity, with nearly two-fold increased titers than SARS-CoV-2 D614G in HEK293T-ACE2 cells.
XBB subvariants’ infectivity was not significantly different from that of D614G in this cell line. By contrast, CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 subvariants had nearly 2.5-fold lower infectivity than D614G in Calu-3. Next, the team tested neutralization of these emergent subvariants by sera from 14 healthcare workers (HCWs) boosted with a bivalent vaccine after two-to-four doses of monovalent mRNA vaccine.
Sera were obtained after a median of 66 days post-bivalent vaccination. CA.3.1, CH.1.1, and XBB.1.5 subvariants showed strong resistance to neutralization by sera relative to BA.4/5, with 4.6 to 17.7 times lower nAb titers than BA.4/5. Interestingly, XBB.1.5 had slightly higher nAb titers than its parent lineage (XBB).
Of note, BQ.1.1 showed higher neutralization resistance than any of the XBB subvariants, with 12.8 lower nAb titers than BA.4/5. The CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 subvariants displayed much higher resistance to neutralization by bivalent sera. Next, the neutralization experiments were repeated using sera from HCWs vaccinated thrice with monovalent mRNA vaccines.
Samples were obtained after 2-13 weeks post-vaccination. The mean nAb titers of triple-vaccinated sera against SARS-CoV-2 D614 and Omicron (BA.2 and BA.4/5) were up to 5.6-fold lower than those of bivalent sera. nAb titers were markedly reduced for CA.3.1, CH.1.1, and XBB.1.5 subvariants. Overall, the trends of triple-vaccinated sera in neutralizing subvariants were comparable to those of bivalent sera.
In addition, the team examined the neutralization resistance of subvariants to sera from individuals infected with BA.4/5. They observed potent and near-complete neutralization resistance for CA.3.1, CH.1.1, and XBB.1.1 subvariants, with 2.6 to 4.1-fold lower nAb titers than BA.4/5. Furthermore, the researchers determined fusogenicity, surface expression, and processing of spike proteins of the subvariants.
Reduced syncytia formation was evident for all subvariants relative to D614G. XBB.1 and XBB.1.5 showed no differences in spike fusogenicity compared to XBB. The efficiency of syncytia formation of CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 was lower than BA.2.75.2. XBB subvariants, BQ.1.1, and BA.2.75.2 exhibited higher spike processing than D614G. There were no differences in spike processing for CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 subvariants relative to the parental BA.2.75.2.
Finally, homology modeling of XBB lineage spikes complexed with ACE2 or nAbs was performed. The P486 residue in XBB.1.5 was more hydrophobic than the S486 residue in XBB/XBB.1, resulting in favorable interactions with residues in ACE2, which allows better receptor utilization. The residue 486 is a hotspot for class I nAb recognition, and mutations at this site in XBB subvariants completely abolish interactions with the therapeutic mAb, AZD8895. Mutations at K444 and L452 residues found in CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 also affect interactions with class II nAbs.
Conclusions
Taken together, the findings suggested that bivalent mRNA vaccines induce up to eight times higher nAbs than monovalent vaccines. XBB subvariants, CA.3.1 and CH.1.1, exhibited almost complete escape from neutralization by triple-vaccinated or BA.4/5 infection sera. Moreover, XBB.1.5 did not show enhanced immune evasion relative to BQ.1.1. CA.3.1 and CH.1.1 subvariants consistently showed higher resistance to neutralization than XBB subvariants, warranting continued surveillance and further analyses.
1976, March 24 – Cabinet Room – The White House – Washington, DC – Gerald R. Ford, Mathews, Doctors: Theoodore Cooper, David Senser, Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin; Frederickson, Meyer, Alex Schmidt,Dickson,McIntosh,Jaspar Williams;Richard Krause,Mrs. Dale Bumpers, Moses Wilds;Sen. Rosalie Abrahms,Francis Francois;Gov. Noel, Others, Staff – seated at table;[l-r: Dr. Jonas Salk, GRF, HEW Secretary F. David Mathews, Dr. Albert B. Sabin]; all not in frame – Meeting to Discuss Federal Initiative to Immunize all Americans against Swine Flu Influenza; HEW Sec & Asst Sec, CDC Director Senser; pioneers in polio vaccine Salk & Sabin; other medical professionals, business representatives and government officials
This is 13-year old Laxmi Tamang, the first person in Nepal to officially receive the combined measles-rubella vaccine. She lives in Nepalganj in Nepal’s low-lying “terai” area bordering India. People in this area are especially at risk of cross-border spread of diseases like measles.
Baby Kafio Ahmed (purple clothing) is 4 months old and getting vaccinated today. Mother Amina Said (yellow scarf) walked for one hour to get to the health center. She has another 3 children at home.
Nurse Sadia Adem Hussien (glasses) is vaccinating the baby.
Mariam Mahamud, Head of the Badbaado Health center, Gambool, Garowe town (dark brown scarf and white jacket - not in this picture). She opened the center in 2010. Today at the Badbaado Health Center there is vaccination campaign for Penta 3 (for prevention of 5 diseases in children) and OBV (polio vaccine). With donations from KFW, UNICEF is supporting the OTP screening and treatment of malnutrition with RUTF, vaccinations (funded by GAVI) and supplies for the center.
They vaccinate around 7-10 babies a day, 6 days a week. ©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill
A doctor immunizes an Afghan woman against tetanus.
An Afghan woman is vaccinated against tetanus by a doctor who works with a mobile medical team from the NGO Merlin.
The team rode on donkeys and horses for took two hours to reach the woman's remote village of Khaspak in Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern Badakshan province.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan is one of 22 countries from WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region taking part in the first-ever Vaccination Week campaign that launched today.
Photo: Chris Black (WHO)
The Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic hosted a mass immunization clinic at the APG North (Aberdeen) Recreation Center, Jan. 14. The clinic was open to eligible APG personnel, to include servicemembers, civilian and contractor employees, spouses and families. During the clinic, the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots were available for participants. The clinic also offered the Influenza vaccine. For more information about the vaccine, visit www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/index.html.
(Photos by Troy Saunders, APG News)
Village Simmalwadi, Kishanganj, Bihar- Another UNICEF run bus carrying street performers from Patna ( Bihar) places itself on a nearby ground of the village and sets up to perform a light and humorous play with the message of benefits of immunization and effects of how diseases can affect the childhood and future in the villagers children. Even be fatal for many small babies. The performers engross the villagers and in the process help them in the awareness towards their children's good health keeping.
Supportive supervision crew from Northern EPI, MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity, and USAID in front of Na Son commune health center, Dien Bien Dong district, Dien Bien province.
Photo credit: Dung Tham Chi/MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity
Village Simmalwadi, Kishanganj, Bihar- Another UNICEF run bus carrying street performers from Patna ( Bihar) places itself on a nearby ground of the village and sets up to perform a light and humorous play with the message of benefits of immunization and effects of how diseases can affect the childhood and future in the villagers children. Even be fatal for many small babies. The performers engross the villagers and in the process help them in the awareness towards their children's good health keeping.
Maryam Abdi (2 years old) and Hawa Abdi (3 years old) (red dresses) just received their vaccines for measles, polio and penta 3. Mother Fatum Mahmed heard about the importance of immunizing her children when the mobilizers came to her door.
Nurses are working at the Jawle Health Center mobile vaccine clinic in Garowe, is set up in the Jawle IDP camp Mother and Baby center. The clinic moves to different places around the IDP camps 3 days a week so that they can reach many people. UNICEF works through EPI donors like GAVI to supports partner organizations like World Vision, Save the Children, CRC and the Puntland Ministry of Health. Many pastoralists are coming to the IDP camp here because the drought is killing off their livestock. There has been outbreaks of diseases and so this year there will be 2 rounds of an integrated vaccination campaigns (one was in March the next is in November) to immunize for measles and polio along with vitamin A supplementation and deworming.
In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose.
The Jawle Health Center in Garowe are seeing an increase in the number of malnourished children as the drought continues. In July there was a measles outbreak and more children for suffering but there was an outreach campaign in response to the outbreak and the situation soon stabilized. After the outreach about immunization around 530 children under 5 years old were brought into the clinic for their dose. ©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill
Saroj Devi a 20 years old woman along with her 18 months old child, attends a vaccination camp organized by Mission Indradhanush at a village in the Gaya district. Her son was left out in the earlier vaccination row, but now she tries to maintain the vaccination record which keeps the track of her immunization status. Mission Indradhanush was launched by Union Health Minister J.P Nadda on December 25, 2014. It aims to immunize all children against seven vaccine preventable diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B by 2020. The Ministry will be technically supported by WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and other donor partners. Mass media, interpersonal communication, and sturdy mechanisms of monitoring and evaluating the scheme are crucial components of Mission Indradhanush. UNICEF has taken the initiatives to take on the campaign and make sure to immunize every child who had been left out earlier. The mission foresee to immunize children from 65% to 90% under this mission.
Photo: UNICEF/India/Shome Basu.
The Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic hosted a mass immunization clinic at the APG North (Aberdeen) Recreation Center, Jan. 14. The clinic was open to eligible APG personnel, to include servicemembers, civilian and contractor employees, spouses and families. During the clinic, the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots were available for participants. The clinic also offered the Influenza vaccine. For more information about the vaccine, visit www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/index.html.
(Photos by Troy Saunders, APG News)
Nancy Martinez holds her son, Bonifacio Perez Jr., 4, as he reacts to getting one of his three immunization shots from nursing student Ashley Huckaby Thursday afternoon, April 19, 2007.
Year 2005 Star of Hope ambulance started its services in Santos, Brazil.
The main objective is to offer basic health care among children at nursery schools in the slum areas in Santos. All the children in the program receives immunization and will meet health care proffessionals on regular basis.
Star of Hope would like to increase the services to other cities. If you would like to sponsor our health care program in Brazil please contact www.starofhope.org
(C) Dennis Thern
U.S. Navy Capt. Alan Labeouf, assigned to U.S. Fleet Forces Command, receives his annual flu vaccination from Hospital Corpsman Joshua Lukacovic of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Immunization Clinic Nov. 12, 2008, during a health fair at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kristopher S. Wilson/Released)
Keira, vaccinator, and Guy-Georges Mayet, immunization consultant for UNICEF Guinea, check that the vaccines and coolers are valid. A young student sits waiting to be vaccinated. Vaccination against COVID-19 for children aged 12 to 17 years at Coléah College, route du Niger in Conakry, Guinea. Joint immunisation activity with the National Health Security Agency of Guinea / Agence nationale de la sécurité sanitaire de Guinée (ANSS).
©UNICEF GUINEA / Desjardins Sibylle
getting immunizations and using the old salter scale to screen for malnutrition.
more than 60% of children under five were severely malnourished in the villages we visited
Samuel Thomas, age 4, gets his COVID-19 vaccination on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, becoming the first kid under the age of 5 to get vaccinated against COVID at Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River. As the son of, Capt. David Thomas, the clinic's commanding officer, he wanted to lead by example and show other kids that there's nothing to be scared of.
Mumino Ahmed (custard color scarf) brought in baby Abrahim Mohammed, 4 months old, for vaccinations. She lives an hour away in Washington IDP camp. She remains with 10 children after loosing 3 to various reasons.
Mariam Mahamud, Head of the Badbaado Health center, Gambool, Garowe town (dark brown scarf and white jacket - not in this picture). She opened the center in 2010. Today at the Badbaado Health Center there is vaccination campaign for Penta 3 (for prevention of 5 diseases in children) and OBV (polio vaccine). With donations from KFW, UNICEF is supporting the OTP screening and treatment of malnutrition with RUTF, vaccinations (funded by GAVI) and supplies for the center.
They vaccinate around 7-10 babies a day, 6 days a week. ©UNICEF Somalia/2022/Lisa Hill
Year 2005 Star of Hope ambulance started its services in Santos, Brazil.
The main objective is to offer basic health care among children at nursery schools in the slum areas in Santos. All the children in the program receives immunization and will meet health care proffessionals on regular basis.
Star of Hope would like to increase the services to other cities. If you would like to sponsor our health care program in Brazil please contact www.starofhope.org
(C) Dennis Thern
Kavita Yadav, 9, poses for a photograph during a Measles vaccination campaign at the Govenrment Primary School in Thatipur in the city of Gwalior in the cenral Indian state of Madhya Pradesh..
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Baby Kafio Ahmed (purple clothing) is 4 months old and getting vaccinated today. Mother Amina Said (yellow scarf) walked for one hour to get to the health center. She has another 3 children at home.
Nurse Sadia Adem Hussien (glasses) is vaccinating the baby.
Mariam Mahamud, Head of the Badbaado Health center, Gambool, Garowe town (dark brown scarf and white jacket - not in this picture). She opened the center in 2010. Today at the Badbaado Health Center there is vaccination campaign for Penta 3 (for prevention of 5 diseases in children) and OBV (polio vaccine). With donations from KFW, UNICEF is supporting the OTP screening and treatment of malnutrition with RUTF, vaccinations (funded by GAVI) and supplies for the center.
They vaccinate around 7-10 babies a day, 6 days a week.
Caption: 1955. Lois Kauffman, R.N., gives typhoid immunization shot to Jimmy Yazzi. Lois carred on an actaive program of prentative medicine as well as treating the sick at the Black Mt. Mission Clinic, Chinle, Arizona.
Citation: Mennonite Board of Missions Photograph Collection. Mission to Arizona, 1950-1970. IV-10-7.2 Box 1 Folder 49, Photo #34. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
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