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The price of persuasion: Why vaccine messaging may deepen social divides
Encouraging people to get vaccinated is often seen as a public health success story. However, understanding how persuading people to roll up their sleeves to receive vaccines creates social division is crucial—particularly ...
Dec 29, 2025
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Massachusetts' health department warns residents about possible measles exposures in multiple locations
An out-of-state adult visitor who spent time in the region earlier in December has been diagnosed with measles, according to health officials who are warning the public of possible exposures in multiple locations.
Dec 29, 2025
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Flu surge exposes missed COVID lessons
Three leading public health and social psychology experts warn that the U.K. is failing to apply vital lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic as flu cases surge with hospitals facing mounting winter pressures ahead of the planned ...
Dec 24, 2025
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Boston reports 114% recent surge in flu cases in December, urges vaccinations
Boston is seeing an early surge in flu cases this year, city and health officials warned, with sharp upticks in cases and hospitalizations and even higher increases for children and teens as winter sets in.
Dec 24, 2025
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Does being infected or vaccinated first influence COVID-19 immunity?
A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important question: does it matter whether a person was first infected or first vaccinated?
Dec 23, 2025
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This 'super flu' could cause widespread serious illness, experts say
Flu season has arrived, and with it a variant making headlines as a "super flu."
Dec 23, 2025
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Study reveals low immunity against H3N2 strain in Hong Kong: Early vaccination urged
Flu activity has surged in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, driven primarily by a newly emerged H3N2 strain known as subclade K.
Dec 23, 2025
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Is it too late to get your COVID or flu shot? A doctor explains
Health experts typically advise getting your COVID-19 and flu vaccine by the end of October. However, if you've missed that window, you can still get them well into the respiratory virus season and see a benefit.
Dec 22, 2025
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As measles cases rise, views of MMR vaccine safety and effectiveness—and willingness to recommend it—drop
The United States is experiencing the worst year for measles cases in more than three decades, with nearly 2,000 cases confirmed by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There have been 49 outbreaks spanning ...
Dec 22, 2025
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Inside the FDA's vaccine uproar
Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had caused the deaths of "at least 10 children," 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 ...
Dec 22, 2025
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Cut vaccine mandates? SC lawmakers take cue from Trump administration in 2026
As South Carolina faces climbing measles cases, a lawmaker wants to ban all vaccine mandates for children under two-years-old.
Dec 22, 2025
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Will measles outbreak spread to Georgia? With holiday travel, it could
One of the biggest measles outbreaks of the past two decades is taking place less than 200 miles from Atlanta.
Dec 22, 2025
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The world risks forgetting one of humanity's greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication
It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded "iron lung" ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that public pools and movie ...
Dec 22, 2025
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1 in 500 Alaskan deaths during pandemic was from COVID-19, state reports
Over a roughly three-year period beginning in March 2020, 1,564 Alaskans died from COVID-19.
Dec 22, 2025
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Protecting infants from RSV: Expert explains safety, efficacy of preventive treatments
The recent safety review of two approved RSV preventive treatments for infants initiated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is unusual and could have unintended consequences for public trust and child health, pediatric ...
Dec 19, 2025
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Florida vaccine debate: explaining chickenpox, Hep B, Hib and pneumococcus shots
MIAMI – Florida's surgeon general wants to do away with all state vaccine mandates. But the first step in his plan targets four specific vaccines.
Dec 19, 2025
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Silent dengue infections may hold clues to future vaccine design
Dengue is one of the world's fastest-spreading mosquito-borne diseases, causing millions of infections annually. Half of the world's population is now at risk, and transmission is increasing in many regions due to climate ...
Dec 18, 2025
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America facing potentially harsh flu season, researcher warns
America could be in for a "severe" influenza season in which flu vaccines offer limited protection, a top UVA Health flu expert is warning.
Dec 18, 2025
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First vaccine shows promise in protecting from deadly melioidosis infection
Melioidosis is a little-known tropical disease now seen as an emerging global public health threat. The disease is caused by bacteria that live in soil and groundwater, and no vaccine exists to prevent infection, which can ...
Dec 18, 2025
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HPV vaccine can protect against severe lesions of the vulva and vagina, study finds
Girls who are vaccinated against HPV are not only well protected against cervical cancer; they are also less likely to develop severe precancerous lesions of the vulva and vagina, particularly if they were vaccinated before ...
Dec 18, 2025
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'Super flu' variant is circulating and raising concern: Here's what to know about it
A new version of the common flu is spreading globally, and health officials are monitoring this evolving strain of influenza A(H3N3) Subclade K, which has been increasingly detected worldwide.
Dec 18, 2025
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Vaccine panel's hepatitis B vote signals further turbulence for immunization policy, public trust
On Dec. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to end the universal U.S. recommendation for the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, instead adopting a policy ...
Dec 18, 2025
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Cases of whooping cough remain high, but knowledge about the disease still low
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a vaccination-preventable illness that has been on the rise in the United States. Following a several-year lull during the pandemic, cases of whooping cough rose sixfold in 2024 ...
Dec 18, 2025
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Virginia medical leaders sign letter denouncing CDC hepatitis B stance
Four of the top medical leaders in Virginia have signed a letter opposing a vote last week by a Centers for Disease Control committee to end the agency's recommendation for universal hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns ...
Dec 18, 2025
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FDA adds brain tumor warning to Depo-Provera birth control shot
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control shot made by Pfizer, alerting patients to a possible risk for a type of brain tumor called meningioma.
Dec 18, 2025
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