Pediatrics

What persuades parents to vaccinate their children?

In the last few years, rising vaccine hesitancy levels have contributed to decreased vaccination coverage for common pathogens in the general population, and specifically among minors. During the COVID pandemic, the debate ...

Vaccination

Measles vaccination coverage still below prepandemic levels

Since 2000, measles vaccination has averted an estimated 57 million deaths worldwide, but vaccination coverage decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not returned to prepandemic levels, according to research published ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A: Modeling measles amidst a global disruption in vaccine supplies

Measles vaccination rates among children worldwide declined during the COVID-19 pandemic to the lowest level since 2008, likely due to lockdowns and difficulty accessing vaccines. According to a new report by the World Health ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Diphtheria outbreak kills 58 in Guinea

An outbreak of diphtheria in northeastern Guinea has killed 58 people, many of them young children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement received Thursday.

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