Bearded Women, Crocodile Fears: Bolsonaro Injects Anxiety Into Brazil As It Waits for a Vaccine
In 2020, the Brazilian president has been seen violating the quarantine rules, offering chloroquine tablets to emus and smiling to cameras at vanity projects. Now, he is busy sowing distrust and creating fear about the vaccination that can save precious lives.
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino
World20/Dec/2020
Sao Paulo: On December 16, Brazilâs health minister Eduardo Pazuello appeared before the media to release a plan for vaccination against COVID-19. Mandated by the countryâs Supreme Court to come up with a blueprint to vaccinate 212 million Brazilians, Pazuello, not wearing a mask, announced a vague scheme, with no fixed date for when the vaccination drive would begin and with which vaccine.
Pathogenic microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi are the causes of infectious diseases.
These diseases can spread to humans through a number of ways, e.g. person to person through direct touch, water, food or airborne particles, and through insects such as mosquitoes.
The National Immunisation Programme (NIP) is a government initiative to curb the spread of infectious diseases.
The Health Ministry introduced the NIP in the 1950s by providing free vaccination services to children in Malaysia.
Currently, the programme targets 12 vaccine-preventable diseases, i.e. tuberculosis, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio,
Haemophilus influenzae type b, measles, mumps, rubella, Japanese encephalitis (only in Sarawak), and cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV).
BENGALURU: After the
Kerala government recently announced free vaccines for the state, state Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar has hinted that Karnataka too could roll out the vaccine free of cost. Although he did not say this explicitly, the Health Minister said on Saturday, after a meeting with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, that a decision in this regard would be taken in the interest of the people. Karnataka has been offering free COVIDtests, free treatment since the beginning of the pandemic. We have so far tested 1.20 crore people free of cost. The Karnataka government is very proactive and committed. Between the Government of India and Government of Karnataka, either one of us will ensure that the vaccine will be taken care of in the interest of the people and that money is not a concern, Sudhakar said, answering a question on the rolling out vaccine for free.
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According to the WHO, cancer is the second leading cause of death. But, did you know that you can prevent a certain cancer by just a vaccine? Most types of cervical cancers can be prevented by the HPV vaccine. Though it is mostly 100% preventable, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in Sri Lanka. WHO states that in 2018, an estimated 570 000 women were diagnosed with the disease globally while 311 000 women died of it. According to Dr Sachini Rasnayake, Senior Lecturer at the University Hospital at the Kothalawala Defence University and Consultant Oncologist, cervical cancer used to be the second or third most common cancer in developed countries few decades ago. “But now, with mandatory national screening for all females of the age of 21 and above, the incidence of cervical cancer has decreased in those countries,” Dr. Rasnayake revea