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August is National Immunization Awareness Month With many school districts across Pennsylvania opening their doors this month, the Departments of Health and Education are announcing the “Don’t Wait....

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week released the webinar, HHS Working Group on Lyme and Other Tickborne Diseases presents: Vaccines for Lyme Disease – Past, present, and future,...

“This is Guinea’s gift to West Africa and the world,” said Dr Sakoba Keita, Guinea’s national coordinator for the Ebola response. “The thousands of volunteers from Conakry and other...

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The number of 13- to 17-year-old boys and girls getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine increased slightly for the second year in a row, according to data from CDC’s 2014 National Immunization...

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Hepatitis B infections are among the most common infectious diseases worldwide. The disease can become chronic, and is one of the most important causes of severe diseases such as liver cancer. In the scope...

Kenya’s Catholic Bishops are calling for a boycott of an upcoming mass polio vaccination campaign scheduled to commence Saturday because the manufacturer failed to provide requested information...

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In a follow-up to a report from 2012, the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use(CHMP) has adopted a positive scientific opinion for Mosquirix (Plasmodium falciparum and...

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Sanofi Pasteur announced last week that its first doses of Fluzone® (Influenza Vaccine) for the 2015-2016 influenza (“flu”) season have been released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Ohio schoolchildren will have to be vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis after Governor John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 121 Thursday. The bill and now law was introduced by State Senator Cliff...

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The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) reminds parents that it is not too early to start thinking about back-to-school immunizations. Parents need to be aware that the immunization...