Vaccination

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of measles cases in the United States is on the rise, with more than 550 cases reported this year. The CDC says this ..

A new study shows that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not initiate autism in children who may be at risk. The study was performed with more than 650,000 children in Denmark between ..

World Cup Football 2018 is currently going on in Russia. Millions of visitors from all over the world have already traveled to Russia. American soccer fans that are currently in Russia need to ..

Mosquitoes kill more than 725,000 people per year. This number is higher than the fatalities caused by humans, sharks, lions, wolves, alligators, and dogs combined. According to a new report by ..

The CDC suggests visiting your physician several weeks ahead of your trip. You should be up-to-date with routine vaccinations while visiting Vanuatu and remember, some other vaccines may also be ..

The latest news in the world of childhood infections is that there is a resurgence of mumps among young American teenagers and adolescents. Researchers believe that this is most likely because of ..

Over the past decade, the shingles virus, Zostavax, has been heavily promoted both by the manufacturer and the CDC. In almost every medical magazine and online health forums, people over the age ..

Even since the HPV vaccines were developed, healthcare workers have found it hard to get teenagers vaccinated. Government and other medical agencies have spent millions of dollars on ads to ..

A new disease-tracking website suggests that mosquitoes may be moving into new ecological niches. The website is called ProMED mail. PromMED stands for the Program for Monitoring Emerging ..

Meningitis B is rare but a very lethal infection. A few months ago a few students at Princeton and the University of California-Santa Barbara were infected by it and it was then realized that ..