Measles is making a comeback around the world. In places with low vaccination rates, a few cases can quickly become an epidemic.
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When you think about travel vaccines, you might think about ones for typhoid or cholera. But there are others you need to think about too.
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.
Measles cases are rising in Australia and globally. Two paediatric infectious disease experts answer some key questions.
No, taking vitamin A is not going to protect you from catching measles, whatever Robert F. Kennedy Jr suggests. Here’s what will.
As public health officials try to tame the outbreak, declining vaccination rates draw concern.
Many claims about the dangers of vaccines come from misrepresenting scientific research papers.
The chance of living one more year is up to 44% more likely thanks to the past 50 years of vaccines, according to new research. But global drops in vaccine coverage pose a risk.
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the risk that rising outbreaks pose to everyone.
Herd immunity to measles is waning due to vaccine hesitancy over MMR. Adult MMR is one way to help get it back up again.
Public health experts know that schools are likely sites for the spread of disease, and laws tying school attendance to vaccination go back to the 1800s.
Children may have fallen behind on their vaccination schedules during the pandemic, increasing the risk that COVID-19 may be followed by outbreaks of once-eradicated diseases.
Coronavirus is a stark reminder of what a world without vaccines would look like.
Measles infection can be easily managed with prompt health care and symptom management. But without care, mild symptoms can turn into life threatening secondary infections or long-term effects.
Studies have shown that the reasons for anti-vaccine sentiment run deep, and scientific facts don’t often matter. A new study drills deeper into reasons for resistance and possible ways to counteract them.
As measles cases surge, people blame parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. A sociologist who has studied public health says anti-vaxxers may not be so different from the rest of us.
The growing number of cases of measles has many people asking: Am I safe? A vaccine expert provides some answers.
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Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist; Clinical Researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Sydney
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Paediatrician & Infectious Diseases Physician; Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
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Public Health Physician and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health, UNSW
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Research Fellow, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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Mathematical epidemiologist, UNSW
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Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling, NIHR Mucosal Pathogens Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, University of Vermont
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Denver
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology, Director HPRU in Immunisation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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PhD Candidate in History
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University