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California State Senator and pediatrician Richard Pan, who spearheaded some of the countrys most ambitious vaccine mandate legislation, is leaving office this year because of term limits.

Experts seek to investigate the possibility of universal immunization for infants at risk for respiratory syncytial virus.

The virus, which is related to measles and mumps, causes symptoms ranging from a cough to severe pneumonia. Some patients are asymptomatic.

An antiviral medication thats been treating adults with influenza for years now has an application for children.

Wastewater testing has proved a reliable early alarm bell for covid outbreaks. US researchers are now adapting the approach to track the explosive spread of monkeypox.

The study narrowed down 3213 cases, linking 286 infectious diseases to specific climate change hazards. Only 9 conditions showed any benefit associated with environmental change, whereas 58% were worsened.

A new study is the first to filter RSV deaths into narrow age brackets. Researchers found that nearly half — 45,000 deaths — were in infants under 6 months old.

More than 17,300 measles cases were reported worldwide in January and February, as compared with 9600 cases at the beginning of 2021.

Legislators are pushing bills to expand exemptions for vaccines, allowing religious exemptions for all vaccine requirements in the states schools without having to provide any proof of their beliefs.

This report describes a rare case of an immunocompromised child who developed measles encephalitis after receiving an MMR vaccine.