A doctor discusses treatment for mpox with the mother of an infected infant at the Kavumu hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For 18 months, the Congolese have struggled to control an epidemic of the disease without the benefit of vaccines. The majority of cases and deaths have been in children. Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg via
Reuters Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Jidyan was the first person to contract polio in Gaza in 25 years UN agencies and local health officials in the Gaza Strip are launching an ambitious campaign to vaccinate 640,000 children against polio. The rollout relies on a series of localised pauses in fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters,
With the new COVID-19 vaccinations for the 2024–25 season arriving in California and across the nation, an important question arises: When is the best time to get the shot? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says September and October are generally the best times for most people to get the COVID immunization. But
Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of a vaccine to combat mpox, making it the first African country to receive a batch amid the current outbreak of disease that used to be called monkeypox. The country began the process to secure the vaccines well before it was declared a global health emergency by the World Health
Vaccines hailed as primary hope of stopping a now global mpox outbreak of a new deadlier strain may not even work, scientists have warned.    Professor Marion Koopmans, director of the pandemic and disaster Centre at the Erasmus Medical Centre in The Netherlands said experts just don’t know how the new clade 1b mpox virus would
A federal judge ruled Tuesday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can sue the Biden administration over alleged social media censorship of his Children’s Health Defense charity, which questions the safety of vaccines. “The Court finds that Kennedy is likely to succeed on his claim that suppression of content posted was caused by actions of Government Defendants,
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for the 2024-2025 season. The updated mRNA vaccines, Comirnaty and Spikevax, were fully approved for people 12 years and older, while the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were granted emergency authorization for children 6 months through 11
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for the 2024-2025 season. The updated mRNA vaccines were “approved and authorized for emergency use,” according to an FDA announcement released today. The monovalent (single) vaccines are designed to target the Omicron variant KP.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2. RISKS ASSOCIATED
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