The World Health Organization (WHO) will now list vaccine hesitancy and vaccine safety advocates as a threat to world health. Specifically, “the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite their availability” will be listed on…
China’s vaccine crisis now seems to be a neverending saga that is testing the limits of both citizens and government. Last Friday, hundreds of people staged a massive protest in front of the Licheng Health Centre…
New York’s Rockland and Orange counties are experiencing some cases of measles. Or, depending on what publication you ask, a “worst outbreak in recent history.” As it stands, health officials claim they’ve diagnosed 167 cases…
If you live in Colorado and have yet to have the flu, a nurse from the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association says you are almost certain to get it. Speaking with CBS4’s Kelly Werthmann, nurse Anne Hart said…
The Iowa Department of Public Health announced the first flu death of the season for the state. The health department believes this to be the perfect opportunity to remind people to get their flu shot,…
Hong Kong authorities halted Sanofi’s flu vaccine after finding traces of “white particles” inside of the vaccines. The incident occurred in late November. The quadrivalent seasonal flu vaccine, VaxigripTetra, is now being passed by Hong Kong’s Department of Health….
Health officials claim that whooping cough, more formally known by the name, pertussis, is staging a comeback in the United States. And they to no one’s surprise, the anti-vaccine community is being blamed for it….
An international traveler who landed in New Jersey’s Newark airport on Christmas Eve has been confirmed to have a case of measles. The traveler arrived from Brussels at the Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal B. The New…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new 6-1 vaccine that is supposed to prevent against six illnesses. Sanofi, the maker of what is being called Vaxelis, partnered with pharmaceutical giant Merck on the…
A Fresno, California child suffered severe brain damage following a condition that health officials are linking to the flu. Four-year-old Andre Carson spent 11 days on life support following an H1N1 flu virus diagnosis. Health officials…