Category: Vaccine Headlines
RFK Jr. plans changes to vaccine injury reporting system
STAT Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he plans to roll out changes to the vaccine injury monitoring system that would automate and increase data collection as well as look for negative impacts of the shots. Reforming the current Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System has long been part of Kennedy’s agenda to raise […]
Apr 16, 2025
The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
New York Times The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good. During his Senate confirmation hearings to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented himself as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have […]
Apr 16, 2025
Key vaccine committee meets for the first time under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
AP A key vaccine advisory committee met for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading voice in the U.S. anti-vaccine movement. Tuesday’s meeting was, to some extent, business as usual, though with a major question looming: Who would evaluate the committee’s recommendations? The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ two-day […]
Apr 16, 2025
Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being ‘normalized’
NPR Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It’s also extremely preventable. There’s a vaccine. It’s highly effective. For decades it has made measles outbreaks in the U.S. relatively rare, and measles deaths rarer still. But the U.S. has now seen more than 700 measles cases this year, and 3 deaths so far with active outbreaks across […]
Apr 15, 2025
Intranasal influenza virus-vectored vaccine offers protection against clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 infection in small animal models
Nature The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus has been endemic in aquatic birds since 1997, causing outbreaks in domestic poultry and occasional human infections worldwide. Recently, the cross-species transmission of a new reassortant variant from clade 2.3.4.4b of H5N1 to cattle in the US has heightened concerns regarding the expansion of host range […]
Apr 2, 2025
FDA approves Bavarian Nordic’s freeze-dried mpox and smallpox vaccine
Pharmaceutical Technology The formulation allows for greater stockpiling, with Bavarian Nordic already working with the US Government to add to vaccine reserves. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the freeze-dried formulation of Bavarian Nordic’s smallpox and mpox vaccine in a move expected to provide flexibility in stockpiling the jab. Marketed as Jynneos […]
Apr 2, 2025
We Need a Reminder of What the Pre-Vaccine Era Was Like
NYT Of the more than 200 Americans infected by the measles outbreak in Texas and beyond, nearly all were unvaccinated — including a 6-year-old child who died — or had an unknown immunization status. While a measles epidemic affecting hundreds of people across state lines is hard to imagine in 2025, the vaccine fears that […]
Mar 25, 2025
‘It’s not a vaccine, it’s a shot’: uncovering a new trend in vaccine scepticism
The Conversation It has long been recognised that attitudes towards vaccines may be vaccine-specific, so that people may take up some, but not others. On July 26 2021, the following statement was posted on Twitter (later renamed X) about the COVID-19 vaccine: It’s not even a real vaccine. You can catch Covid and also spread it […]
Mar 18, 2025
NIH cuts funding for vaccine-hesitancy research. mRNA research may be next
NPR The Trump administration is slashing long-standing areas of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, claiming they no longer align with the agency’s priorities. The latest target? Millions of dollars in NIH grants for studying vaccine hesitancy and how to improve immunization levels. It’s work that’s particularly relevant as a measles outbreak grips […]
Mar 18, 2025
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
Washington Post The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined. The National Institutes of Health will cancel or cut back dozens of grants for research on why some people are reluctant to be vaccinated and how to increase acceptance of vaccines, according to an internal […]
Mar 11, 2025