An analysis finds that, while all regions were affected, low-resource areas were hit hardest.
A new study provides compelling data on how vaccination prevents deaths and serious illness—and the lasting family pain behind the statistics.
A new study finds that 1.3% of children under age 5 were exposed to someone in the home with hepatitis B, a highly contagious but vaccine-preventable disease.
Also, Kenyan officials confirm a 9th case in that country, 4 of which have been in healthcare workers.
Offering HPV shots to children at ages 9 or 10 increases vaccination rates compared with providing the immunization at 11 or 12.
Infectious disease epidemics could account for an average annual shortfall of 17,500 healthcare workers worldwide.
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A survey finds that emphasizing the share of people who do and don’t engage in non-recommended antibiotic behaviors didn’t affect respondents’ willingness to engage in those behaviors.
Also, new data show that 1 in 4 new patients in North Kivu, DR Congo, are children.
"One of the challenges that we have today is trust, and that trust is really difficult to respond to when you have a US government, a senior health official, making claims about the danger of vaccines."
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