Measles immunization with further attenuated heat-stable measles vaccine using five different methods of administration.

Further attenuated heat-stable measles vaccine Attenuvax was administered randomly to 109 children using five different methods and a control group (24). Vaccine administration by syringe and needle (0.5 ml) and by jet-injector (0.

Agents affecting health of mother and child in a rural area of Kenya. III. The epidemiology of measles.

Between April 1974 and March 1976 surveillance of measles has been conducted by 12 fieldworkers making fortnightly home visits among a total population of 24,000 living in nearly 4000 households scattered in variable density throughout an area of 87 sq km in the northern division of the Machakos district, Kenya. The diagnosis of measles was verified by one of the project's physicians according to standardized procedures and was, whenever possible, supported by virus isolation and serum antibody level determination. Because not all reported patients were actually seen during the period of clinical manifestations, the diagnosis remained doubtful in a number of cases.

Acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis and enterovirus 70 in Kenya.

The pandemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis that started in Ghana in 1969 and spread to many countries in Africa, Asia and Europe reached Kenya in April 1971. From one patient virus was isolated. This was possibly the first strain ever isolated of Enterovirus 70.