Category: Vaccine Headlines
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
RFK Jr. Wants to Rethink the Measles Vaccine. Here’s What the Science Shows.
WSJ MMR vaccines are safe and effective, but fewer children are getting them. Measles and mumps are viral diseases so rare that fewer than one in 40,000 Americans catch either of them in a given year. Getting rubella is less likely than getting struck by lightning. But as recently as the 1960s, measles sickened half […]
Jan 29, 2025
Ring vaccination effective in containing Ebola
Nature Success of targeted vaccination in curbing Ebola outbreaks in DRC, paving the way for future strategies against similar infectious diseases. A new study1 in the New England Journal of Medicine has highlighted the effectiveness of ring vaccination in containing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ring vaccination is a public health strategy where […]
Jan 29, 2025
The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One
Wired H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country’s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn’t yet recommended. As avian influenza rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the latest state to detect the virus […]
Jan 22, 2025
HHS gives Moderna $590M to ‘accelerate’ bird flu vaccine trials
Fierce Biotech The U.S. government has handed Moderna almost $600 million to accelerate its work on various bird flu vaccines as well as work on mRNA vaccines for other influenza strains with pandemic potential. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has been working with Moderna since […]
Jan 22, 2025
How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
NYT In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West. Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in […]
Jan 14, 2025
Childhood vaccination rates, a health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping
NBC News Jen Fisher can do only so much to keep her son safe from the types of infections that children can encounter at school. The rest, she said, is up to other students and parents in their hometown of Franklin, Tennessee. Fisher’s son Raleigh, 12, lives with a congenital heart condition, which has left […]
Jan 14, 2025
Vaccine Stocks Jump on U.S. Bird-Flu Death
WSJ Shares of vaccine makers including Moderna, Novavax and CureVac rose Tuesday after U.S. health officials confirmed the first American death caused by the H5N1 bird flu. Continue reading
Jan 8, 2025
Scientists Are Racing to Develop a New Bird Flu Vaccine
Time A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator. Around the same time, a senior in Louisiana was diagnosed with the first “severe” case in the U.S. As bird flu continues to ramp up, many are wondering what tools—namely, vaccines—we have […]
Jan 2, 2025
Americans are not getting seasonal vaccines ahead of the holidays
Washington Post Experts worry that the unenthusiastic embrace of vaccines could spark outbreaks and increased hospitalizations. As the holiday season approaches, public health experts are sounding the alarm about low vaccination rates against the coronavirus, flu and RSV. With gatherings and travel on the rise, many people are heading into the next few months unprotected against […]
Nov 27, 2024