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Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak has led several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.
Different social realities lead to different forms of vaccine hesitancy.
A vaccine designed entirely by AI has been tested in people for the first time.
Vaccine development can be really expensive, and there’s limited commercial return.
Events in eastern DRC are a reminder that Ebola outbreaks are rarely controlled by vaccines alone.
There is no approved vaccine to curb the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. But new funding offers hope.
Diseases once thought confined to history are making a comeback in Australia. And vaccination is only part of the story.
Tests for Ebola don’t detect this strain, so it took the WHO extra time to confirm the cause of the outbreak.
A study found that South Koreans who received donated US vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic were more in favor of their government giving to other nations.
While Africa accounts for roughly 25% of the global disease burden, its people are largely invisible in randomised controlled trials.
A secret HIV research project carried out in the Central African Republic in the 1990s sheds light on how biomedical extractivism operates.
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
As rotavirus spreads this season, doctors worry that falling vaccination rates may endanger kids.
Everything you need to know about the flu vaccine, including the nasal spray, egg-free options, who it’s free for and what to do if you’re scared of needles.
By letting people make choices and experience the outcomes of those choices, gaming provides a much more hands-on way of learning about health.
As childhood vaccination rates in Allegheny County decline, The Conversation asked experts why parents are opting out and how to protect vaccination policy.
A MenB vaccine may also help curb drug-resistant gonorrhoea, linking two growing health threats and raising new questions about how vaccines are used.
Shingles can cause severe and long-lasting complications, yet vaccination rates in Canada remain low despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine.
In recent decades, cases have risen sharply in Africa as urbanisation, travel and climate change have expanded mosquito habitats.
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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