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Reports summarize vaccines research from Bandim Health Project
February 18th, 2009
New research, 'The effect of vitamin A supplementation administered with missing vaccines during national immunization days in Guinea-Bissau,' is the subject of a report. According to recent research from Copenhagen, Denmark, "WHO recommends high-dose Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) at vaccination contacts after 6 months of age. It has not been studied whether the effect of VAS on mortality depends on the type of vaccine." "We have hypothesized that VAS administered with measles vaccine (MV) is more beneficial than VAS with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine. We assessed the effect of VAS administered with different vaccines during national immunization days...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-18)
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