Some countries have pledged to donate doses of mpox vaccines to combat an outbreak of the disease in Africa, after the World Health Organization declared it a global public health emergency in August for the second time in two years. Such donations are meant to address the huge inequity that left African nations with no...
The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating war that has destroyed the territory’s healthcare system. The campaign comes after the first polio case was reported in Gaza in 25 years — a 10-month-old boy, now...
A growing number of Americans are skeptical of vaccines for COVID and other infectious diseases, according to the most recent national health survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. More than a quarter of respondents (28%) said they believe the COVID vaccines have contributed to thousands of deaths, according to...
Getting shingles just once could increase the risk of long-term confusion and memory loss, a new study has found. The study, led by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, linked the virus to greater chances of “subjective cognitive decline,” according to a Harvard press release. The findings were published in the journal Alzheimer’s...
A federal judge ruled Tuesday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can sue the Biden administration over alleged social media censorship of his Children’s Health Defense charity, which questions the safety of vaccines. “The Court finds that Kennedy is likely to succeed on his claim that suppression of content posted was caused by actions of Government Defendants,...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the public face of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic response,was hospitalized earlier this month with the West Nile virus (WNV), a spokesperson for Fauci tells Fox News. Fauci, 83, was hospitalized before he returned home where he is now recovering, the spokesperson says. The nation’s former top infectious-disease official is expected to make...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for the 2024-2025 season. The updated mRNA vaccines, Comirnaty and Spikevax, were fully approved for people 12 years and older, while the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were granted emergency authorization for children 6 months through 11...
With the U.S. military mired in a historic recruiting crisis, and global tensions at their highest point since World War II, now would be a good time to keep as many troops in uniform as possible. Unfortunately, the Biden administration’s reckless discharge of more than 75,000 military personnel in the name of compliance with vaccine...
The United States’ rate of measles infections in 2024 is more than triple that of 2023, despite almost half the year still remaining. There have been 188 reported cases of measles in the U.S. this year, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated on Thursday. It’s a significant increase from...
Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa and Uganda, researchers reported. In a group given daily prevention pills,...
