October 28, 2015 California high school sends two dozen unvaccinated students home amid measles outbreak A California high school sent home two dozen unvaccinated students for three weeks as the Orange County area grapples with an outbreak of the measles.
October 28, 2015 As world seeks to eradicate polio, Laos suffers vaccine-linked case Laos has suffered a case of vaccine-derived polio, the World Health Organization said on Monday, in a new setback to a global plan to eradicate the crippling disease after the virus resurfaced in Ukraine and Mali.
October 28, 2015 Drug-resistant tuberculosis at crisis levels, warns WHO Multi drug-resistant tuberculosis remains at crisis levels, with about 480,000 new cases this year, and various forms of the lung disease killed about 1.5 million people in 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
October 28, 2015 Blood from Ebola survivors could help spur new disease treatments After successfully treating four Ebola patients last year, Emory University in Atlanta is now leading a government-funded project that will use blood from survivors of the deadly virus to test a novel way of treating infectious disease.
October 28, 2015 FDA panel to discuss Ebola vaccine development in May The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said an advisory panel will discuss the development of Ebola vaccines, days after an American health worker was flown back after being tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone.
October 28, 2015 Bird flu vaccine, under development, divides US poultry industry The death of more than 46 million chickens and turkeys in a bird flu outbreak is opening a rare fissure within the usually tight-knit U.S. poultry industry, pitting farmers with infected flocks against those who so far largely have sidestepped the worst outbreak in U.S. history.
October 28, 2015 Shingles vaccine not cost effective before age 60 The shingles vaccine might not be cost-effective for people in their fifties, a new analysis suggests.
October 28, 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak isn't largest in recent memory The largest U.S. measles outbreak in recent history isn't the one that started in December at Disneyland. It happened months earlier in Ohio's Amish country, where 383 people fell ill after unvaccinated Amish missionaries traveled to the Philippines and returned with the virus.
October 28, 2015 Flu shots for adults under 65 may boost protection for seniors When healthy adults under age 65 get a flu shot to protect themselves, they may be helping older adults in their communities avoid the flu as well, according to a new analysis of nationwide U.S. data.
October 28, 2015 Measles cases turn attention to bounty of childhood vaccines Measles is in the news, but it's just one of more than a dozen preventable - and sometimes forgotten - diseases targeted by vaccines for children.
