Introduction: The number of foreign travelers arriving in India has shown an exponential increase from 1.2 million in 1981 to 8.03 million in the year 2015, with an annual growth rate of 4.5%. With the influx of internationally mobile students to developing countries such as India comes the responsibility of having to cater to the health needs of these visitors. The current stu...

For immunization to be effective in the long run as a major global disease control intervention it is important to provide good quality vaccination services. Studies carried out in three countries in Asia (Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines) and two countries in Africa (Ethiopia and Malawi), and reported on in this article, document the fact that parents are willing to invest considerable e...

cow-pox of one human being from another: the first of a long series of protective inoculations upon which, for a hundred years, man has been dependent for his protection against one of the most terrible disease^ to which he is exposed. From this inoculation has grown our national system of vaccination, in the creation of which the name of this Society and its former president, Edward Seaton, wi...

OBJECTIVES To examine geographic and demographic trends in objection to vaccination in Australia. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) data (2002-2013) for children aged 1-6 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Immunisation status according to whether an objection had been registered, and remoteness and socio-economic status of area of residence. Regi...