Scientists are indicating that children in Burkina Faso who were vaccinated against group A meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia (MenA) between the ages of 1-4 years in 2010, could need a booster...

The Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA) says the polio vaccine given to children under 5 years in the past two weeks is safe. The association issued a statement after some parents complained that their...

International medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it has vaccinated 213 000 children from the Central African Republic (CAR) against nine common but deadly diseases. In a statement released...

In Nashville, TN, the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) has confirmed 56 cases of hepatitis A in the city since December 2017. MPHD continues to work with the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH),...

The New Zealand Ministry of Health expresses its condolences to the families of children who recently died in Samoa shortly after the administration of MMR vaccine. Samoan health authorities have launched...

Last month, a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (VDPV1) case was confirmed in a child from Morobe Province. Papua New Guinea has not had a case of wild poliovirus since 1996, and the country was certified...

In a follow-up on the diphtheria situation in Ukraine, the Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine is reporting new case (computer translated), the fourth case of diphtheria in country,...

Health officials in France have reported the third measles fatality of 2018 in a 17-year-old immunocompromised girl from the region of New Aquitaine. Overall, there has been a decrease in the number of...

Vaxart, Inc. a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing oral recombinant vaccines that are administered by tablet rather than by injection, announced publication of the comprehensive results of...

Indiana state health officials are reporting the state’s first death related to a multi-state outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious disease of the liver. The outbreak has caused nearly 4,000...