In Vihiga where about 19,000 infants are on the vaccination list of 98 health facilities, county officials have initiated a ...

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In Vihiga where about 19,000 infants are on the vaccination list of 98 health facilities, county officials have initiated a mission to trace at least 7,000 defaulters.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a warning (Inadvertent intradermal administration of tetanus toxoid-containing vaccines instead of tuberculosis skin tests ...

Stanford scientists discovered that a harmless skin bacterium triggers a powerful immune response. By tweaking a bacterial ...

when then-HHS Secretary Donna Shalala endorsed amendments that removed residual seizure disorder from the covered conditions for whooping cough and tetanus vaccines in 1995 and for the measles ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday. “The State of Louisiana and LDH ...

It’s the country’s first recorded death attributed to H5N1. The US has previously licensed three H5N1 vaccines for humans, but they’re not available commercially. The government has ...

That’s why childhood vaccination programs have been such a boon for public health. In the past 30 years, recommended childhood vaccines have prevented an estimated 1.1 million deaths and 32 ...

By Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, they agreed that the ...