Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis (Y ... should be given within 24 hours of the first symptoms. Currently, no plague vaccine is available in the United States.
Outbreaks among the unvaccinated are a predictable consequence of falling immunization rates. But even vaccinated adults may ...
“In the United States, we are experiencing a concerning resurgence of childhood vaccine-preventable diseases,” researcher Dr. Ben Rader, a computational epidemiologist with Boston Children’s Hospital, ...
US paediatric vaccine uptake has declined from 95% in the 2019-20 school year to below 93% for the 2023-24 school year.
As the silent crisis of undernutrition in children looms, addressing nutrition could hold the key to safeguarding future ...
Amid a global surge in measles cases, new research suggests that undernutrition may be exacerbating outbreaks in areas ...
An infectious disease specialist on Thursday called a few cases of a rare, vaccine-preventable respiratory illness in Cabell and Putnam counties “a wakeup call” for what could happen if West ...
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