West Africa: Ebola research shows the value of vaccines
Clinical science is catching up with the West African Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 11,000 people since last year in countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. An experimental Ebola...
View ArticleGeneva: Vaccine hesitancy a growing challenge for immunization programmes,...
People who delay or refuse vaccines for themselves or their children are presenting a growing challenge for countries seeking to close the immunization gap. Globally, 1 in 5 children still do not...
View ArticleIllinois: Gov. Rauner toughens requirements for religious exemption on vaccines
Families with religious objections to immunizing their children soon will have an additional hurdle to clear if they want to enroll students in public or private schools. Last week, Gov. Bruce Rauner...
View ArticleWHO: Pakistan, Afghanistan must step up fight against polio
Pakistan and Afghanistan must intensify efforts to halt spread of the crippling poliovirus, including better screening of travelers heading abroad, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The WHO...
View ArticleUS: ‘Bad Faith,’ by Paul A. Offit explores how religious beliefs can...
Paul A. Offit, a professor of vaccinology and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, tells us that our ability to protect children from abuse at the hands of parents is...
View ArticleYemen: UN health workers vaccinate millions of children against polio, measles
Nearly a quarter of all health facilities in Yemen are no longer operating fully – with more expected to close down in the coming weeks – resulting in “catastrophic consequences” for patients suffering...
View ArticleUS: California home school interest surges as parents look to sidestep...
With the passage of a new law this summer mandating vaccines for schoolkids in California, home school advocates and organizations say they are seeing surging interest in off-campus education options...
View ArticleAustralia: Thousands of girls in anti-vaccination hot spots skip HPV vaccine
Thousands of teenage girls living in Australia’s anti-vaccination hot spots are skipping the cervical cancer vaccine. A study has revealed the lowest rates of 15-year-old girls receiving the free HPV...
View ArticleVietnam: Vaccines under national programme are safe, says Preventive Medicine...
Tran Dac Phu, director of the Preventive Medicine Department, speaks to Viet Nam News Agency about the quality of vaccines under the national programme on immunisation. What kinds of vaccine against...
View ArticleUS: Rhode Island move to mandate HPV vaccine in schools faces criticism
When Rhode Island seventh graders start school next month, the state’s Department of Health will require they be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, over the protests of...
View ArticleUK: Fresh threat to polio eradication as patient sheds immune disease for 28...
A fresh threat to global efforts to eradicate polio has emerged. A study published on August 27 in PLOS Pathogens reports results from an individual in the United Kingdom (UK) with an immune disease...
View ArticleDemocratic Republic of Congo: Katanga measles epidemic keeps worsening
In June, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raised the alarm about the measles epidemic that has been raging in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since March. The situation has now...
View ArticleUS: Why are cases of shoulder injuries from vaccines increasing?
ELISABETH CASSAYRE GOT a shot at her local pharmacy, and the pain in her arm began that night. It refused to go away. Days, then months passed as she couldn’t lift her right arm, couldn’t hang up...
View ArticleUkraine: [Opinion] We must launch massive, mandatory polio vaccination campaign
On Sept. 2, the World Health Organization announced that two Ukrainian children were paralyzed by polio. These cases were the first incidences of polio recorded on European soil since 2010, and were...
View ArticleMali: Polio resurfaces in Mali from Ebola-hit Guinea, says WHO
GENEVA— There is a high risk of polio spreading in Ebola-ravaged Guinea and Mali, the World Health Organization said on Monday, after a Guinean toddler travelled to Mali and became that country’s first...
View ArticleMalaysia: Parents refuse vaccinations despite ‘halal’ assurances
Some parents in Kuala Lumpur are refusing routine vaccinations for their children on the belief that the vaccines are non-halal, despite the halal certification from Islamic authorities and the Health...
View ArticleUS: Rhode Island move to mandate HPV vaccine in schools faces criticism
When Rhode Island seventh graders start school next month, the state’s Department of Health will require they be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, over the protests of...
View ArticleUS: New York City urges Orthodox parents to immunize their kids against...
The city’s health department sent a letter to Orthodox Jewish schools and parents earlier this week, warning them of a pertussis (whooping cough) outbreak and encouraging them to get their children...
View ArticleAustralia: [Opinion] Withholding services won’t convince vaccine refusers
The most effective and ethically sustainable policies to increase vaccination rates remind parents and make it inconvenient to opt out so that only the most entrenched anti-vaccination supporters do...
View ArticleUkraine: UNICEF and WHO call on urgent action to stop spread of polio virus
UNICEF and WHO call on parents in Ukraine to vaccinate their children, as efforts are urgently underway to distribute vaccines to all areas of the country, following a confirmed polio outbreak. Polio...
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