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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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 ...

Gerontology & Geriatrics

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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 ...

Pediatrics

Why vaccines are especially important for children with asthma

You may have seen recent news stories reporting that a national data investigation found that routine childhood vaccination is slipping across much of the United States, leaving classrooms and daycares with growing gaps in ...

Health

Flu vaccines have prevented millions of deaths, research shows

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused around 50 million deaths, and its impact was so severe that global life expectancy fell ...

Vaccination

Africa malaria jab rollout delivers 10 million doses

Nearly 10 million malaria vaccine doses were delivered to Africa during the first year of routine immunization being rolled out across the continent, the Gavi vaccine alliance said Wednesday.

Pediatrics

Childhood vaccination rates seem to be slipping

In Tennessee—a public health bright spot in a conservative state with poor health outcomes and one of the shortest life expectancies in the nation—there is a high childhood vaccination rate.

Vaccination

Vaccine misinformation: a lasting side effect from COVID

A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still endures five years later, ...

Vaccination

ACIP immunization schedules issued for children, adults

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)-approved immunization schedules for children and adolescents and for adults for 2025 have been published in the Jan. 16 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

HIV & AIDS

HIV vaccine candidate activates crucial immune function

Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute successfully created an HIV vaccine candidate that guides key immune cells along an evolutionary pathway to become broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Vaccination does not impact long COVID neurological symptoms

Vaccination prior to COVID-19 infection does not significantly affect neurological symptoms in patients with postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a study published online Jan. 7 in Brain Communications.