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For the 2024-25 school year, only 87% of Kentucky kindergartners were fully vaccinated against measles.
Amid promising signs, officials urged caution, noting that the outbreaks vary by clade, response measures, and social behaviors.
The company said an mRNA flu vaccine has the potential to more closely match circulating strains.
Experts warn that the federal vaccine advisory group's decision to revisit childhood immunizations and its controversial vote on thimerosal will undermine confidence in vaccines.
The announcement comes a week after New Mexico officials reported measles in a wastewater sample collected in the area, hinting of an undiagnosed infection.
The percentage of US adults reporting high confidence in the CDC fell from 82% in February 2020 to 56% in June 2022.
As global proportions rapidly grow, an initial assessment suggests a low public health risk.
Without more data from China and further intelligence reports from governments, both zoonotic and lab-leak origin hypotheses remain on the table.
Leaders also committed $4.5 billion in additional financing.
Also, the group recommends Merck's RSV preventive for babies and weighs in on the upcoming season's flu vaccines.
Overall vaccine effectiveness was 29% against COVID-19–associated hospitalization.
A new study finds bacteria harboring resistance to ionophores, a class of antibiotics widely used in poultry, also carry resistance genes for medically important antibiotics.
Washington state has now recorded 10 measles cases in 2025.
Clinical trials of Jynneos have begun or will begin soon in infants and children 2 years old and younger, and in pregnant or breastfeeding women.
The new findings bring Maryland's total of confirmed CWD cases to 285 since the fatal prion disease was first confirmed in the state in 2011.
ACIP's chair signaled that new work groups will take up 2 new topics: cumulative vaccine doses in children and impacts from established vaccines, including hepatitis B in infants.
In a pre-recorded video delivered to Gavi leaders, Kennedy accuses the group of ignoring vaccine safety concerns and said the US government will withhold financial support.
Global rates for several vaccines declined sharply in 2020, and had not returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels as of 2023.
Analysis of data from 14 African countries finds high AMR rates for key bug-drug combinations, but the study also reveals large gaps in testing capacity.
Among the findings, 90% of Democrats, 68% of Republicans, and 66% of MAGA supporters agree with school vaccine mandates.
