October 28, 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak linked to low vaccination rates The rapid spread of a measles outbreak from Disneyland in California to communities around the country suggests that vaccination rates in some places may be as low as 50 percent, a study suggests.
October 28, 2015 Merck issues voluntary recall of 743,360 vials of Gardasil HPV vaccine Merck is issuing a voluntary recall of one lot of Gardasil vaccines due to the risk that some vials of the vaccine may contain glass particles, according to a statement released today by the pharmaceutical company.
October 28, 2015 Vaccine phobia and the autism ‘epidemic’ The current controversy over whether parents should be forced to have their children vaccinated for measles is one of the painful signs of our times.
October 27, 2015 Tailor-made vaccine set to banish Africa's meningitis epidemics The website of a global partnership formed to wipe out deadly meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa is closing down with a simple message: "Thank you and goodbye!"
October 27, 2015 California officials declare Disneyland-linked measles outbreak over California health authorities on Friday declared an end to a large measles outbreak that started at Disneyland and triggered a national debate about vaccinations.
October 27, 2015 California daycare center shuts down after baby contracts measles A daycare center at a Southern California high school has been closed and more than a dozen infants placed under three-week quarantine after a baby enrolled in the program was diagnosed with measles, a school district official said on Monday.
October 27, 2015 Post-immunization epilepsy likely not related to vaccine: study Children who start having seizures soon after a vaccination and go on to develop epilepsy usually turn out to have an underlying cause of the seizure disorder, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.
October 27, 2015 'Extreme measures' needed to see Ebola shot development through Developing and bringing to market effective Ebola vaccines requires extreme measures and unprecedented international cooperation, global health experts said on Monday.
October 27, 2015 Human error seen in measles vaccination deaths in Syria: WHO A muscle relaxant appears to have been mixed mistakenly with measles vaccine, killing 15 children in Syria this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, calling it the biggest such tragedy in memory.
October 27, 2015 Vaccine success holds hope for end to deadly scourge of Ebola The world is on the verge of being able to protect humans against Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as a trial in Guinea found a vaccine to have been 100 percent effective.
