Cases of invasive group A streptococcal infections in children varied during time periods before the pandemic, declined ...

Dr. Ali Sherif normally gives about 50 doses of the measles vaccine to children each month at his clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico ...

If even that relatively small decline in vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis ...

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other ...

Tracy Beth Hoeg, a sports medicine physician and epidemiologist who opposed key U.S. health policies during the COVID-19 pandemic and questioned the use of some childhood vaccines, was named a special ...

Unvaccinated families, especially families that refuse whooping cough, measles, chickenpox ... Association of Pediatrics published a report updating guidance on vaccine hesitancy among parents ...

The vaccine was developed in 1971, and improved in 2005 when the varicella vaccine was added to create the MMRV vaccine. Two doses of MMR vaccine is considered 97% effective at preventing measles ...

Other vaccination rates for polio, varicella and chicken pox ... staff physician for pediatric infectious disease at Penn State Health St. Joseph hospital, said of countywide vaccination rates.

At one large pediatric clinic in Albuquerque ... His clinic orders about $50,000 worth of measles, chickenpox and other vaccines per month through the program, he says, an amount of money ...