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The number of reported measles cases is officially the highest in 2025 since 1992, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.So far this year, there have been a ...
A third case of measles has been reported in Florida this year, this one in Leon County. A case of measles has been reported ...
The state noted a 15- to 19-year-old contracted the highly contagious disease. It was unknown if they contracted it outside ...
A wildly contagious virus that poses a particular risk to children, measles was once considered a disease of the past in the ...
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC vaccine panel have been casting doubt on the hepatitis B shot and the practice of vaccinating newborns.
A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.
Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said Thursday that the U.S. should not administer influenza vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative ...
The ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel newly empowered by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is just getting started.
A CDC advisory panel has recommended that the preservative thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines, a largely symbolic move but one that could sow doubts about safety.
Key takeaways: The CDC’s new vaccine advisors will meet for the first time this week with a revamped agenda. The new makeup of the ACIP includes several prominent vaccine critics.
Of the eight named by Kennedy, perhaps the most experienced in vaccine policy is Meissner, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases, who also previously served on FDA's vaccine advisory panel.
Kennedy says the move will restore trust in vaccine science; one health group called it a 'coup' ...