Number Infected Now 24 in Texas County Measles Outbreak
2025-02-13
All the cases are in unvaccinated residents of Gaines County; nine patients have required hospitalizationContinue Reading
Texas County Reports Measles Outbreak Among Unvaccinated Children
2025-02-07
Gaines County, Texas, has very high number of vaccine exemptions compared with the national averageContinue Reading
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Reducing Childhood Vaccinations
2025-01-24
FRIDAY, Jan. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hesitancy over the COVID-19 vaccine is leading some parents to skip important vaccinations for their children. Young children of parents who declined the COVID vaccine are about 25% less likely to get the standard measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, researchers reported in a new studyContinue Reading
Has RSV Vaccine Hesitancy Subsided?
2024-12-27
FRIDAY, Dec. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More Americans believe in the effectiveness of vaccines developed to protect newborns and seniors against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). More than half of U.S. adults (52%) think the RSV vaccine given to pregnant women will protect newborns from the infection, up from 42%Continue Reading
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Big Tobacco’s Challenge to Cigarette Warning Labels
2024-11-25
MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a major tobacco company’s challenge to a federal law that would mandate graphic images on cigarette packs. Some of the proposed images include a woman with a large lump on her neck alongside theContinue Reading
Falling Vaccination Rates Brings Spikes in Measles Worldwide
2024-11-15
FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Waning vaccine coverage has fueled a 20% spike in measles cases worldwide, with 10.3 million people struck by the preventable illness in 2023, health officials reported Wednesday. “Inadequate immunization coverage globally is driving the surge in cases,” of what was once a commonContinue Reading
CDC Lowers Age for First Pneumococcal Vaccine to 50
2024-10-24
THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The recommended first age at which Americans should get the pneumococcal vaccine has been lowered from 65 to 50, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. “Lowering the age for pneumococcal vaccination gives more adults the opportunity to protect themselvesContinue Reading
Walking Pneumonia Cases Spike Among Young Kids
2024-10-21
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Walking pneumonia cases are surging among young children in the United States, federal health officials warn. “Bacterial infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae increased in the United States since late spring and have remained high,” a statement issued Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease ControlContinue Reading
Record Rate of U.S. Kindergartners Failed to Get Recommended Vaccines
2024-10-03
THURSDAY, Oct. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In yet another sign that childhood vaccinations can’t be taken for granted, new government data shows that a record number of kindergartners were exempted from the required shots during the last school year. That leaves more than 125,000 new students without the protectionContinue Reading
Childhood Vaccines Have Saved 1 Million U.S. Lives Since 1994, CDC Says
2024-08-09
FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In findings that offer compelling evidence of the power of childhood vaccines, a new government report shows the routine shots have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among Americans born in theContinue Reading