India adds protection against severe diarrhoea

Mexico was verified as having eliminated onchocerciasis transmission.

Repeated ivermectin treatment in endemic areas helped stop transmission.

The verification followed earlier successes in Colombia and Ecuador.

Public health teams used community-wide treatment and surveillance.

A dated statement recognized India’s introduction of vaccine against a major cause of childhood diarrhoea.

Early introduction covered selected states before wider expansion.

Immunization complements clean water, hygiene, and treatment of dehydration.

The results of a ring-vaccination study in Guinea showed high protection against Ebola.

Participants, health workers and contact-tracing teams made the outbreak trial possible.

The trial offered vaccine to people linked to new Ebola cases to study whether infection could be prevented.