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Flu season peak is still to come this year: Is it too late to get a flu shot?
While flu shot campaigns and initiatives start around the end of the summer, the peak season for flu is still weeks away.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Early-stage clinical trial demonstrates promise of intranasal influenza vaccine in generating broad immunity
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) report encouraging results from an early phase clinical trial that found an experimental intranasal vaccine ...
Nov 6, 2025
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COVID-19 vaccination lowers long COVID risk in adolescents
Adolescents who were vaccinated against COVID-19 were less likely to develop long COVID after their first SARS-CoV-2 infection than unvaccinated peers, finds a new study.
Nov 6, 2025
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Large-scale protein screen reveals targets for a new tuberculosis vaccine
A large-scale screen of tuberculosis proteins has revealed several possible antigens that could be developed as a new vaccine for TB, the world's deadliest infectious disease.
Nov 5, 2025
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New study shows long-term effectiveness of HPV vaccine
A new study has confirmed that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine provides strong and sustained protection against cervical disease that can develop into cancer.
Nov 5, 2025
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Louisiana took months to sound alarm after two babies died in whooping cough outbreak
When there's an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That's standard practice, public health ...
Nov 5, 2025
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At least 15 whooping cough cases confirmed in Kansas
Whooping cough cases are on the rise in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and local health officials are advising residents to keep an eye out for symptoms of the illness and stay up to date with their vaccinations.
Nov 5, 2025
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Analysis of 14 million children finds COVID-19 infection poses greater heart complication risk than vaccination
A new study shows children and young people face long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or without an infection. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 vaccination ...
Nov 4, 2025
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Biomaterial vaccines could make implanted orthopedic devices safer
Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a small but significant risk that these devices get infected with bacterial pathogens. This starts them ...
Nov 4, 2025
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Dual-action mRNA vaccine takes aim at aggressive skin cancer
Yale researchers have developed a new vaccine that does double duty against a rare and aggressive skin cancer by targeting the protein essential to tumor cell growth and by adding a key signal to boost the immune system response. ...
Nov 3, 2025
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Strict school vaccine mandates work, and parents don't game the system: Study
When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines without a medical reason, vaccination rates among kindergartners increased substantially. That's the ...
Nov 3, 2025
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Wave of RSV, particularly dangerous for babies, washing over US: Doctors urge vaccination
A wave of the highly contagious respiratory syncytial virus is beginning to wash over the United States—sending greater numbers of babies and toddlers to the hospital, recent data show.
Nov 1, 2025
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Measles outbreak in Utah, Arizona grows to over 130 cases
A measles outbreak in parts of Utah and Arizona not far from Las Vegas has grown to over 130 cases, according to public health officials in both states.
Nov 1, 2025
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Opening the door to a vaccine for multiple childhood infections
A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts say.
Oct 31, 2025
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Study shows vaccine protection against Salmonella Paratyphi A infection
An Oxford-led study has demonstrated that an oral live-attenuated vaccine, CVD 1902, provided significant protection against S. Paratyphi A infection in healthy adults using a controlled human infection model, without any ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Survey: Public is variably knowledgeable about safety of MMR vaccine and risks of getting measles
Nearly 1,650 cases of measles in 42 states have been confirmed this year in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the largest annual number in 34 years. This includes a fresh outbreak ...
Oct 30, 2025
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5,000+ measles cases threaten Canada's elimination status
Canada may lose its measles elimination status amid a yearlong outbreak that has infected more than 5,000 people and killed two infants, health officials said this week.
Oct 30, 2025
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Can you get chickenpox twice? Or if you're vaccinated? Experts answer nine key questions
Alerts have been issued about the rising number of chickenpox cases in Northern New South Wales this year. Meanwhile, chickenpox continues to spread across Australia with 2,010 notified cases so far this year.
Oct 30, 2025
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How age affects vaccine responses and how to make them better
As flu season approaches and public health officials roll out their annual push for vaccination, Allen Institute scientists are learning why vaccines can trigger a weaker response in older adults, around age 65, and what ...
Oct 29, 2025
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Video messaging alone insufficient strategy to boost COVID vaccination rates
A new study by Assistant Professor Rachael Piltch-Loeb, Affiliated Investigator Angela Parcesepe, Distinguished Professor Denis Nash, and colleagues from the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health ...
Oct 29, 2025
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A one-shot flu vaccine can beat avian flu strains before they appear
Scientists have developed a proof-of-concept vaccine that could offer broad protection against all known and emerging variants of highly pathogenic avian influenza (A5) viruses, including those that have yet to evolve. This ...
Light-based tool continuously monitors vaccine quality during production
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to rapidly develop, produce and distribute large quantities of new vaccines. A team of researchers at Purdue University and Merck & Co. Inc., known as Merck Sharp ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Global drop in parental trust in childhood vaccines linked to measles resurgence
An international study led by the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee at Bar-Ilan University reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to a diminishing public trust in childhood vaccines, resulting in declining ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Parental pushback threatens HPV protection
A new wave of HPV vaccine hesitancy is spreading across the United States, worrying public health experts as coverage stalls and disparities grow. In a new study by researchers including Associate Professor Spring Cooper ...
Oct 28, 2025
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Combined HIV vaccines can act in concert to achieve diverse antibody priming
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Scripps Research, and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard report coordinated studies showing that several HIV germline-targeting immunogens can be delivered together ...
