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SCIENTISTS SEEK SUPER-SHOT FOR FLU 100 YEARS AFTER PANDEMIC KILLED 50 MILLION
Fauci is designating a universal flu vaccine a top priority for NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... READ MORE›
'JAPANESE FLU': STRAIN NOT INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR'S JAB IS SPREADING
A strain of flu that isn't included in this year's main flu vaccine is spreading, according to Public Health England PHE ... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES SAYS DEATHS IN VACCINE ROW 'CONSISTENT WITH' DENGUE
More than 830,000 Filipino schoolchildren were injected with Sanofi's Dengvaxia vaccine last year in the world's first public dengue immunisation programme... READ MORE›
CHILD MUMMY IN ITALY HAD HEPATITIS, NOT THE OLDEST MEDIEVAL EVIDENCE OF SMALLPOX
An apparent facial rash led experts to believe, initially, that the child had smallpox, also known as variola virus... READ MORE›
FACEBOOK CAN BE USED STOP DISEASE OUTBREAKS
Such people would be central in their social networks, and thus likelier to spread disease-causing germs from one group to another... READ MORE›
AUSSIE FLU: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AFTER FATALITIES REPORTED IN IRELAND
Australian flu is the name given to flu subtype influenza A H3N2 ... READ MORE›
JOYRIDERS RAM STOLEN VEHICLE INTO GARDA CAR
Mobile footage of the incident depicts a silver Nissan Micra being driven recklessly on the road in view of an occupied Garda car... READ MORE›
IN WORLD'S WORST CHOLERA OUTBREAK, VACCINE TALKS HANG IN THE BALANCE
Some three million doses of oral cholera vaccine are currently available in a global stockpile designed for such emergencies, according to the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
GOOD NEWS AS MEASLES DEATHS FALL TO WORLD RECORD LOW
New York For the first time in history, annual deaths around the globe from measles have fallen below 100,000... READ MORE›
MAJOR NHS TRUST TURNS AWAY A&E PATIENTS 13 TIMES IN A WEEK
As cold snap adds to pressure, Worcestershire trust is forced to divert patients from A E at two hospitals... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES SUSPENDS WORLD'S FIRST DENGUE VACCINE AFTER MAKER LEARNS OF RISK
The Philippines said Friday it had suspended use of a landmark vaccine for the potentially deadly dengue virus after its manufacturer warned it could worse... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA'S FLU SEASON HAS U.S. HEALTH OFFICIALS BRACING FOR A BAD WINTER, AND WANTING A NEW VACCINE
As we prepare for a potentially severe influenza season, we must consider whether our current vaccines can be improved, Fauci and his coauthors wrote... READ MORE›
NHS URGES PARENTS TO VACCINATE FLU 'SUPER-SPREADER' CHILDREN
NHS England is urging parents to vaccinate super-spreader children against flu so grandparents and other vulnerable relatives will be less at risk over the Christmas period... READ MORE›
PARENTS CAN HELP MINIMIZE CHILDREN'S PAIN FROM VACCINATIONS, STUDY SAYS
Four-year-old Harrison watches curiously as the nurse approaches his two-year-old sister, Georgia, to give her the flu shot at a Toronto pediatric clinic... READ MORE›
FLU VACCINE USED THIS YEAR 'WASN'T UP TO IT'
Influenza NSW Health Minister says current vaccine 'not up to the job' after deadly flu season... READ MORE›
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TRUMP ASKS VACCINE SKEPTIC RFK JR. TO LEAD STUDY ON VACCINE SAFETY
Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer said that the president-elect and Kennedy discussed issues pertaining to vaccines and immunizations... READ MORE›
POLIO PARALYZES 17 CHILDREN IN SYRIA WHO SAYS
Polio Paralyzes 17 Children in Syria, W.H.O. Says... READ MORE›
TRUMP ASKS LEADING ANTI-VACCINE ADVOCATE TO CHAIR COMMISSION ON 'VACCINE SAFETY'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal vaccination skeptic, says president-elect Donald Trump has asked him to chair a commission on vaccine safety... READ MORE›
MENINGITIS B VACCINE OFFERED TO ALL BABIES FROM SEPTEMBER
All newborn babies in England and Scotland are to be offered a vaccine to combat meningitis B from September... READ MORE›
30MN PEOPLE DEAD IN A YEAR
Gates said the link between health security and international security is underestimated adding that governments are not paying enough attention to this threat... READ MORE›
STUDENTS TARGETED IN MENW VACCINATION PROGRAMME
Sue Davie, chief executive of Meningitis Now, said parents should ensure that their children get the MenACWY vaccination... READ MORE›
THE LOOPHOLES IN CANADA'S VACCINATION LAWS
How is it that a school has a 43 per cent vaccination rate?... READ MORE›
VACCINE SCEPTIC ROBERT F KENNEDY JR SAYS TRUMP ASKED HIM TO LEAD SAFETY STUDY
Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy promote the widely-rejected claim that vaccines are linked to autism... READ MORE›
TSIMANE OF THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON HAVE WORLD'S HEALTHIEST HEARTS, SAYS STUDY
In the Tsimane population, heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose were also low... READ MORE›
WINNIPEG LAB EMPLOYEE POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO EBOLA VIRUS
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus... READ MORE›
OXFORD RESEARCHERS TEAM TO TEST UNIVERSAL FLU VACCINE
Significantly, the new vaccine works by stimulating the immune system to boost virus-killing T-cells, instead of antibodies... READ MORE›
SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBE FOUND TO HAVE THE HEALTHIEST HEARTS EVER STUDIED
A South American tribe with a highly active lifestyle has the healthiest arteries of any population yet studied, say researchers... READ MORE›
HANSON REFUSES TO BACK DOWN FROM VACCINATION COMMENTS AS FURORE RISES
Pauline Hanson has defended and reinforced her anti-vaccination sentiments by encouraging parents to test their children before immunising... READ MORE›
'LOW SEVERITY' BIRD FLU CASE AT HAMPSHIRE FARM
A 1km poultry movement restriction zone has been imposed and the birds at the commercial chicken breeding farm will be culled, Defra said... READ MORE›
TESTS SHOW NEW EBOLA VACCINE IS 'HIGHLY EFFECTIVE'
Pharmaceutical companies only agreed to develop Ebola vaccines after the West African epidemic spiraled out of control last year, affecting thousands of people... READ MORE›
NHS URGES 1.4M STAFF TO HAVE FLU JAB TO REDUCE RISK OF EPIDEMIC
In another previously unused tactic, NHS England bosses are writing to all 234 NHS trusts telling them to do much more to ensure staff have the jab... READ MORE›
BOTCHED VACCINATION KILLS 15 CHILDREN IN SOUTH SUDAN
In 2016, South Sudan had at least 2,294 measles cases and 28 people died, according to UN data... READ MORE›
PSYCHOLOGISTS SAY THEY CAN INOCULATE PEOPLE AGAINST FAKE NEWS
Researchers have found that there may be a way to vaccinate people against climate change misinformation... READ MORE›
VACCINE SUCCESS HOLDS HOPE FOR END TO DEADLY SCOURGE OF EBOLA
That left the study in Guinea, where Ebola is still infecting new victims, as the only real hope for demonstrating the efficacy of a vaccine... READ MORE›
NOT IMMUNIZING KIDS 'CAN AND WILL AFFECT OTHERS,' SAYS DAD FEARING BABY EXPOSED TO MEASLES
Ottawa-area measles cases prompt debate over mandatory vaccination... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | HOW WAR BROUGHT CHOLERA AND POLIO BACK TO THE MIDDLE EAST
A child receives treatment at a hospital amid a serious cholera outbreak in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, on June 14... READ MORE›
RABIES OUTBREAK PROMPTS VACCINE AIR DROP IN EASTERN ONTARIO
The rabies vaccine baits are coated with a flavoured wax substance that attracts wildlife... READ MORE›
NSW TEEN NATHAN BROWN DIES FROM COMPLICATIONS DURING HORROR FLU SEASON
As of September 15, 288 influenza-associated deaths have been registered or reported to state public health units, a spokesman for NSW Health told AAP... READ MORE›
MEDICAL EXPERTS REBUKE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS HYPING VACCINATION CONCERNS
Dr John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley school of public health, said politicians misleading messages on vaccines were disappointing ... READ MORE›
ANTI-VACCINATION SCHOOL HIT BY CHICKENPOX EPIDEMIC
There is a variety of beliefs concerning immunising children... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP 'ASKS ROBERT F KENNEDY JR TO CHAIR VACCINE SAFETYA COMMISSION' IN SIGN HE STILL BELIEVES VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM
Speaking at the premier of an anti-vaccination film in 2015, he said vaccines were causing a holocaust across the US... READ MORE›
POLIO IN TWO UKRAINIAN CHILDREN FIRST OCCURRENCE OF DISEASE IN EUROPE SINCE 2010
But blitzing the handful of countries where wild poliovirus is still infecting children has absorbed a lot of the vaccine manufacturers' capacity... READ MORE›
FINAL TEST RESULTS CONFIRM EBOLA VACCINE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
Scientists have struggled to develop an Ebola vaccine over the years, and this is the first one proven to work... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN ADULTS MISSING OUT ON FREE VACCINATIONS
Half of Australian adults don't receive government-funded jabs for influenza, pneumonia and shingles, the Vaccine Myopia report found... READ MORE›