#Bulgaria expands free #HPV #vaccination to include boys, and older girls: Physicians welcomed the #vaccination program expansion, calling it ‘an extremely important step’ to tackle #HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world. https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/bulgaria-expands-free-hpv-vaccination-to-include-boys-and-older-girls/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
@mcnado Tetanus is also the perfect refutation to "vaccines work forever".
We've had the tetanus vaccine since 1924, the current variant dates to 1991. But it is still only considered effective for about ten years.
Others needing boosters or regular update: influenza, shingles (adult variant of chicken pox), diptheria, pertussis, and for some meningitus. Many other routine vaccines require multiple doses for full efficacy.
(Lay understanding, I'm sure you could think of others. CDC sourcing, for now: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-schedules/adult-easyread.html.)
#AeroVax does not need injection. It is inhaled. #BillGates #vaccination #mRNA
“This number that we have now is almost certainly an undercount, & one that — when the season is declared over, & they compile all the data — it’s almost certain to go up,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary of the AAP.
There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but a big one is that fewer #children get #flu shots, added O’Leary, a U of CO #pediatric #infectious #diseases specialist.
The flu #vaccination rate for US children has plummeted from about 64% 5 yrs ago to 49% this season.
Second measles case confirmed in Travis County, health officials urge vaccination https://www.byteseu.com/955249/ #AustinPublicHealth #exposure #Health #immunity #measles #outbreak #symptoms #TravisCounty #vaccination
If you were wondering how the whole #Measles #Vaccination #antivax thing was going, it's not going well: 800 cases through April 17th, 3 deaths, 85 hospitalized (so *not* a good time) and something like 5% of inpatient cases get sepsis, 10% of inpatient cases gets acute kidney failure, 12% get pneumonia, 2-3% get encephalitis, not to mention immune damage. Not a good time at all.
"The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday. ...
'This is the largest outbreak in the U.S. since measles elimination was declared in 2000,' [Dr. Dan Filardo] said."
~ Teddy Rosenbluth and Apoorva Mandavilli
#Trump #RFKJr #measles #Texas #Oklahoma #NewMexico #vaccination #vaccines #CDC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/health/measles-southwest-outbreak.html
Numb arm and fever, but better than getting the actual thing! #COVID19 #JN1 #vaccination
#WhoopingCough infections spike as #vaccination rates drop
The #US has reported more than 8,000 cases of whooping cough cases this year, more than double from this time last year. NBC News’ Sam Brock looks at the surge in this #contagious bacterial #infection that spreads through droplets.
“We’re seeing a return of #Dickensian #diseases” w/ the dissemination of anti-vaccine #ConspiracyTheories.
#PublicHealth #vaccines #HHS #RFKJr #Trump #Antivax #science #medicine
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/whooping-cough-infections-spike-as-vaccination-rates-drop-238123589553
Father and daughter contract measles in Serbia, fear of it spreading in Israel https://www.byteseu.com/946318/ #HealthMinistry #measles #Serbia #TelAviv #vaccination #Vaccines
Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. They have saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than 1 life every 10 seconds.
Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.
The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.
It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.
Read our latest editorial in #PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143
Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.
Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.
The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.
We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use.
It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.
Read our latest editorial in @PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143
The nationwide #measles outbreak now stands at over 800 cases, but you don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on the news.
The #orange areas in this map show where the #vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!
“It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and R.F.K. Jr. very fast.”
~ Seth Rogen
Elliot Kirschner thinks Rogen's reference to $320 million is to the total amount given by the Breakthrough Prize to scientists over the years. Rogen made the comment at the recent awards ceremony for that prize.
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination #CDC #HHS #science #medicine #healthcare
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"Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED."
~ David Gilbert
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination #CDC #HHS
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https://www.wired.com/story/department-health-human-services-possible-collapse/
"Sugerman estimated that each measles case may end up costing the government between $30,000 and $50,000 for a public health response.
Meanwhile, Kennedy was once again pushing misinformation about the measles vaccine, calling it 'leaky' and saying that it 'wanes,' during a separate press event on Tuesday."
“'We do believe that there’s quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported,' Sugerman said during a rare meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Tuesday. ...
The majority of cases have been among unvaccinated children, with 2 children and one adult marking the first U.S. measles deaths in more than a decade and the first child measles death since 2003."
"David Sugerman, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that a large number of measles cases are going unreported—and that the government’s ability to respond has been strained by recent federal budget cuts."
~ Walter Einenkel
"Public health experts worry that childhood vaccination rates could dip further under the current Trump administration with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the US Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC."
#WhoopingCough #measles #vaccines #RFKJr #Trump #vaccination
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