‘Local immunization rates for children are lower than 94 percent’: doctors urge people to get vaccinated in wake of measles death in Texas
Some people think of measles as just a little rash and fever that clear up in a few days. But measles can cause serious health complications, especially in children younger than 5 years old.
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in ...
RFK Jr. Downplays Severity of Deadly Measles Outbreak
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the severity of a Texas measles outbreak during Trump’s first Cabinet meeting.
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Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?
The group is part of a larger, loosely affiliated group of churches with varied beliefs and leadership structures — and with ...
A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, officials there said ...
CDC investigating hospitalizations of five people who recently received chikungunya vaccine
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating five hospitalizations that occurred in people ...
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Measles death reported in Texas, first in U.S. since 2015
Officials say the school-aged child was not vaccinated and was hospitalized in Lubbock last week after testing positive for ...
Trump administration weighs pulling funding for Moderna bird flu vaccine, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health officials are reevaluating a $590 million contract that was awarded to Moderna for the development of its bird ...
FDA cancels meeting to update next season's flu vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season's influenza ...
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Influenza activity remains high in Maine, according to DHHS
Influenza activity remains high across Maine with hospitals admitting over 900 individuals so far this season, according to a ...
Measles death of unvaccinated child in Texas outbreak is 1st fatality in US in a decade
An unvaccinated school-aged child in Texas has died of measles, the first associated with an outbreak that has infected more than 100 people.
Exclusive: Meeting of US FDA vaccine advisers canceled, committee member says
A meeting of a committee which advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy has been canceled, a committee ...