Published 20 August 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1364
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1364

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Parents of Irish teenage girls pay for cervical cancer jab: Parents of girls excluded from the immunisation programme against human papillomavirus infection in Ireland are paying about {euro}600 (£475; $880) to have their daughters vaccinated. Budgetary constraints meant that the Irish health minister decided not to fund a recommended catch-up immunisation programme for 13-15 year olds. The vaccine will be offered free to all 12 year old girls from September 2009.

Germany is declared free of rabies: Germany is now officially free of rabies under guidelines of the World Organisation for Animal Health, say state officials of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, and Rhineland-Palatinate. These three states undertook massive wild animal vaccination programmes in a bid to eradicate the disease. The last case, in a fox, was reported in February 2006.

NICE consults on procedures guidance: The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is consulting on how it should develop . . . [Full text of this article]

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