Twitter Watch to 22 January 2012

Twitter Watch 
Items of interest from a variety of twitter feeds associated with immunization, vaccines and global public health. This capture is highly selective and is by no means intended to be exhaustive.

GAVIAlliance GAVI Alliance
3 days until @WEF! This 3 minute long video speaks to the power of #vaccinesht.ly/8Ca9C
1 hour ago

WHO WHO
WHO Executive Board passed a resolution on eliminating #schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms bit.ly/xLPg4c #EB130
7 hours ago

WHO WHO
WHO Executive Board passed a resolution to combat noncommunicable diseases bit.ly/xsvVXB #EB130 #NCDs
21 Jan

AmerMedicalAssn AMA
RT @VMethics Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated? bit.ly/wAfbB0
20 Jan

UNICEF UNICEF
UNICEF’s Executive Board elects a new President for 2012 uni.cf/zHrJhT
20 Jan

AmerMedicalAssn AMA
RT @VMethics The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the Supreme Court’s Interpretation bit.ly/yvC5px
20 Jan

WHO WHO
WHO Executive Board passed a resolution to reduce child mortality and improve maternal #health bit.ly/A9jTEo #EB130 #MDGs
20 Jan

Forbes Forbes
Bill Gates: The 7 Most Influential Vaccine Heroes onforb.es/wycTli
13 Jan

pahowho PAHO/WHO
Presentation of Preliminary Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 – bit.ly/Ax4jjY
19 Jan

unfoundation UN Foundation
Congrats! RT @endpolionow: Rotary clubs worldwide meet $200 million fundraising challenge for polio eradication. bit.ly/zzYQJM
19 Jan

PublicHealth APHA
Hospitals can be a setting for measles transmission, 2009 Pennsylvania outbreak shows: goo.gl/KXE0D
19 Jan

sabinvaccine Sabin Vaccine Inst.
Dengue vaccine by 2015? Phase II clinical trial begins in Malaysia bit.ly/yi6TT8
19 Jan

ECDC_EU ECDC
ECDC updated measles maps show #measles cases reported monthly by #EU and EEA countries. bit.ly/wQvmSk
17 Jan

MeaslesInit Measles Initiative
CDC study: measles can spread fast in a hospital when parents choose not to vaccinate & workers are not fully immunized 1.usa.gov/xNkghp