Category: Vaccine Headlines
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
FDA cancels meeting to update next season’s flu vaccines
CBS News Video The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly canceled an annual meeting of its advisers to update next season’s influenza vaccines, an adviser on the panel and multiple officials tell CBS News, upending the usual process to start manufacturing next winter’s flu shots. “We’re all left trying to understand what is going on. Why was […]
Mar 5, 2025
HHS review of a vaccine contract sparks worries about preparedness for a potential bird flu pandemic
STAT In the spring of 2009, the first flu pandemic in four decades began. Caused by an H1N1 virus that emerged from pigs, likely in Mexico, it spread quickly around the globe. The world got lucky in 2009. Doubly so. The “swine flu” virus was distinct enough from previous H1N1 viruses that it could cause […]
Mar 4, 2025
The research and development landscape for mpox vaccines
The Lancet On Aug 14, 2024, WHO redeclared the mpox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). In contrast to the 2022 PHEIC, which was related to the global outbreak of mpox caused by the clade IIb strain, the 2024 PHEIC, attributed to the clade Ib strain, is primarily spreading through human […]
Feb 26, 2025
Scientists Describe Rare Syndrome Following Covid Vaccinations
NYT In a small study, patients with the syndrome were more likely to experience reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus and high levels of a coronavirus protein. The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that includes […]
Feb 19, 2025
Zoetis Receives Conditional License from USDA for Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus, for Chickens
Zoetis Zoetis today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) has issued the company a conditional license for its Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus. The vaccine is labelled for use in chickens. The conditional license was granted on the demonstration of safety, purity, and reasonable expectation of […]
Feb 18, 2025
What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like
The Atlantic At first, much the same. But inevitably dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them. Becoming a public-health expert means learning how to envision humanity’s worst-case scenarios for infectious disease. For decades, though, no one in the U.S. has had to consider the full danger of some of history’s […]
Jan 29, 2025