The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the total death count from the 2023-2024 flu season and revealed it to be one of the worst for child deaths in U.S. history. 199 children ...

The deaths coincide with drops in vaccinations among children. As of May 11, just over 53% of children between ages 6 months ...

When pediatrician Eric Ball opened a refrigerator full of childhood vaccines, all the expected shots were there — DTaP, polio ...

The vaccination rate of Florida kindergartners has fallen to 90%, the lowest in more than a decade, and pediatricians across ...

GENEVA: A large-scale vaccination campaign to fight a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip is set to begin on September 1, announced the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative for the occupied ...

Nkemngong, E. , Tita, J. , Nengieh, W. and Mesumbe, N. (2024) Social Media’s Influence on Vaccine Hesitancy among Students of ...

In 2016, the global health authorities removed a type of poliovirus from the oral vaccine. The virus caused a growing number ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Childhood vaccination rates in Utah are dropping as measles cases increase in the U.S. However, health officials say vaccines are safe and effective. In 2000, the World Health ...

“If we continue to have vaccine rates fall, we'll continue to have bigger and bigger outbreaks, and what's going to happen is that children are going to die. That could have been prevented by ...

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Childhood death rates are on the rise across the United States, new research has found. Between 2018 and 2022, child and adolescent mortality increased by 18.8 percent, more than twice the ...

Since it was widely introduced 16 years ago, cervical cancer rates have been reduced by almost 90% in women in their 20s who received the vaccine as children.