Vaccines

The results of a new Dutch study suggest a rationing protocol does not diminish the effectiveness of the vaccine.

A new survey has found that 34% of US parents are not planning to have their child vaccinated against influenza.

Investigators have found that children who received a flu shot in consecutive years did not see a decline in vaccine effectiveness.

Keeping communities safe from potentially deadly viruses is everyone’s responsibility.

New outbreaks of rubella and troubling data on influenza highlight the importance of vaccination.

Sanofi Pasteur’s dengue vaccine (Dengvaxia) is moving one step closer to being approved in the United States as the FDA just accepted a Biologics License Application for the vaccine.

In 2017, 47 outbreak cases of mumps were reported in the Denver Metropolitan area among individuals who attended Marshallese church events.

An eVLP cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine was found to be safe and immunogenic at very low doses in healthy seronegative adults.

The new vaccine schedule is 7 days between doses for adults aged 18 to 65, instead of the standard 28 days.

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New surveillance report sheds light on meningococcal disease rates among HIV-infected MSM.

Dale N Gerding, MD, provides insight about prevention options for C diff that are expected in the future.

Colleen Kelley, MD, discusses the possibility of an HIV vaccine and current progress being made in HIV prevention.

Hepatitis A outbreaks are active in 13 states across the United States, yet vaccination is required in only a fraction of them.

Investigators find that severe hospitalization cases of varicella still occur in vaccinated children, yet not vaccinating against the virus confers the greatest threat.

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A social media campaign initiated in Russia may be sowing the seeds of debate surrounding vaccine safety, causing new outbreaks of measles globally.

A universal flu vaccine candidate elicits protective response in mice against multiple strains of the virus.

New recommendations from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices reveal that health care providers have the intranasally-administered live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) among their arsenal of available vaccines for the 2018-2019 flu season.

The Democratic of the Congo Ministry of Health has authorized the use of 5 experimental Ebola treatments as more than 100 cases of Ebola are reported.

A new study reveals that the quadrivalent HPV catch-up vaccine was most effective against cancer risk in women who received the first dose between the ages of 14 and 20 years.

A total of 107 cases of measles has been reported thus far this year in the United States and the District of Columbia, underscoring the importance of vaccination.

Several outbreaks of mumps in university settings throughout Indiana in 2016 highlight a need for standardized immunization record collection and a third MMR vaccination dose for individuals at increased risk of infection.

In case you missed them, we’ve compiled the top 5 infectious disease articles from this past week.

An experimental HIV-1 vaccine regimen reportedly produced immune responses against HIV in humans and rhesus monkeys.