In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, ...

ECONOMIC inequality, disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic and misinformation have slowed down global efforts to vaccinate ...

At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines.

Researchers said on Tuesday that vaccination rates among children are dropping across the world, increasing the risk of ...

Routine vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, but efforts have been slowing ...

Measles — declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2002 thanks to widespread vaccination — has hit 22 states this year. Arizona hasn’t reported a single case during the current outbreak, despite ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) entire vaccine board even as childhood vaccination rates… ...

South Dakota’s immunization law requires children entering school or early childhood programs to be immunized against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus ...

But when vaccination rates drop, it doesn’t just put unvaccinated children at risk. It threatens those who cannot be vaccinated – including all infants under a year old, who are too young for ...