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A drop in surveillance and missed vaccine schedules due to the pandemic means potential new outbreaks of measles and other infectious diseases.

The latest U.S. COVID-19 wave is taking its toll on some states’ intensive-care units, with several parts of the country seeing outbreaks that are as bad as ever.

Earlier in the day the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, recommended that all adults be eligible for a third dose of a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine, at least 6 months after their second dose.

Cases of the flu, that once annual viral intruder that was regularly the country’s worst annual health crisis, is showing signs of waking up again this fall.

An analysis of new COVID-19 cases and associated hospitalizations gives new insight into the effectiveness of vaccines.

Most say they plan to get a COVID-19 booster shot and will keep getting a COVID vaccine even if it is eventually recommended annually.

Though the agency notes the terms are often used interchangeably, there are slight differences between being "immunized" and being "vaccinated."

Will the universal recommendation help reinvigorate stalling declines in hepatitis B infections over the past decade?

And then you look at hospitalizations, yes, were well down. nice to come down a slope but in recent days its another flat line of plateau. having lived through the previous plateau and up in the wintertime and its different because vaccines are widely available, are you worried were not consistently coming down that weve consistently flattened out. >> of course im worried. worried for a couple of reasons, one is that its winter and we know that the transmission of respiratory viruses happen bett...

Some countries are already starting to vaccinate under-12s and many are likely to follow. Is it safe? Is it useful? And is it really needed to control the pandemic?