Vaccine uptake is currently too low to prevent outbreaks of measles – a highly contagious and potentially deadly virus.
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Complications from measles infection are surprisingly common.
A medical epidemiologist explains who should consider getting a booster and whether you might need to check your antibody levels.
The COVID pandemic triggered a new kind of vaccine scepticism shared by people who normally take up vaccines – here’s why that’s a problem.
As public health officials try to tame the outbreak, declining vaccination rates draw concern.
Measles is a serious disease with potentially severe complications. The current situation in Canada is a public health challenge and a critical moment for awareness and action.
Canada is seeing a surge in measles cases. Find out what measles is, why it’s returning to Canada, and how people can protect themselves and others.
Though the outbreaks overseas are bigger, a number of cases have also been detected in Australia so far this year.
Herd immunity to measles is waning due to vaccine hesitancy over MMR. Adult MMR is one way to help get it back up again.
Seven children at a nursery in Stoke-on-Trent have caught measles. But other parts of the UK are at risk too.
Many children have missed a measles vaccine dose since the start of the COVID pandemic.
The latest report from the WHO and Unicef found cases have increased nearly 80% worldwide.
Some of the omicron variant’s unique properties – such as its ability to spread rapidly while causing milder COVID-19 infections – could usher in a new phase of the pandemic.
Good science doesn’t eliminate uncertainty: it explains it.
Vaccination campaigns like the ones that eventually eliminated polio and measles in the United States required decades of education and awareness in order to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. population.
Anti-vaccine activists are using the side effect reporting system to spread fear and misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. But the database could also be used as a gauge for public concerns.
America’s founders accepted the reality of human selfishness. But, they also said people were capable of thinking for the good of the whole, which is necessary for a free society.
For decades, US schools have been common sites for vaccine clinics to respond to outbreaks and provide catch-up immunizations. So why are they suddenly controversial?
The effects of Ontario’s compulsory school immunization show there are advantages and disadvantages of requiring vaccination.
Now that two COVID vaccines have been authorized by the FDA, questions arise. Today, a physician from Indiana University School of Medicine answers five reader questions.
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