For the 2021 to 2022 influenza season, influenza vaccines were 36 percent effective against influenza A(H3N2)-related illnesses, according to a study published online Dec. 12 in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Jan 4, 2023
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The pandemic's focus on vaccines may have had a big downside: While kids have long been required to get certain shots to attend public school, a growing number of their parents now oppose these requirements, a new poll finds.
Dec 16, 2022
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Varicella vaccination resulted in a 99 percent reduction in the incidence of varicella among persons aged younger than 20 years, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America ...
Oct 25, 2022
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Last year, the emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus caught many people by surprise and led to a surge in cases that overwhelmed hospitals and drove up fatalities. Now we're learning ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Babies in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people, according to the most sweeping study ...
Oct 6, 2022
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The first large, real-world study of the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy found these vaccines, especially two initial doses followed by a booster, are effective in protecting against serious disease ...
Sep 26, 2022
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EU health authorities on Tuesday recommended that older people and high-risk patients should be first in line for updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting the Omicron variant.
Sep 6, 2022
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Health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related but deadlier smallpox virus already have protection?
Aug 17, 2022
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Adding simple statements that put vaccine side-effect risks into broader context could improve vaccine uptake, a study published today in eLife has shown.
Aug 17, 2022
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What is monkeypox, is it in Australia and how worried should we be?
Jul 29, 2022
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