Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.
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Public health scholars worry that the resurgence of measles may signal a coming wave of other vaccine-preventable diseases.
In an unprecedented move, health officials cut the number of vaccines routinely recommended for children from 17 to 11.
Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood vaccine schedule came about.
COVID-19 risk might be much lower than in past summers, but it’s not gone - making a pre-Christmas booster for some a good idea.
If Canada wants to get ahead of the next health crisis, it needs to shield its scientists and researchers from online abuse.
Decreased vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in Canada and other countries.
Only about 82% of two-year-olds are fully immunised against measles, with two doses of the vaccine. This leaves at least one in five unprotected.
Most states require childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps, tetanus, rubella, chickenpox and whooping cough.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine rates have been dropping.
Removing vaccine mandates in Florida will worsen health disparities among populations that already have lower vaccination rates.
Why falling vaccination rates put vulnerable children at risk.
Florida plans to scrap all vaccine mandates for school students, with the state’s governor describing them as ‘slavery’. Here’s what this could mean.
Remote-work flexibility has supported workplace equity helped limit outbreaks of respiratory infections. Back-to-offices mandates could erase those gains, especially with lowered vaccination rates.
Now that the US has stopped funding Gavi, the vaccine alliance will likely become more dependent on philanthropy than ever before.
The diseases that spread like wildfire. And those that don’t.
Measles is a viral infection, so antibiotics don’t treat it directly. But it weakens the immune system, leading to bacterial infections like pneumonia or ear infections, which do require antibiotics.
The measles vaccine may do more than we thought – and the growing number of outbreaks makes ensuring you’re protected ever more urgent.
Vaccination is key to protecting against measles – but the question of when exactly is best to give the vaccine is not black and white.
Vaccine hesitancy isn’t a moral failure – it’s a property of a system in which people must balance personal and collective interests.
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Professor of Neurology, Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Health Studies, University of Richmond
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Endowed Professor of Health Policy and Associate Dean, George Washington University
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Research Officer / EIDM Specialist, University of Cape Town
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Senior research fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Disability Studies, Georgetown University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
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Senior Research Officer & Co-Director, Vaccines For Africa Initiative, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney
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Professor of Global Health, Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark