Despite Safety Concerns, FDA Approves Moderna’s mRNA Flu Shot
On Aug. 5, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Moderna’s seasonal flu shot, mFLUSIVA (mRNA-1010), making it the first messenger RNA platform for seasonal influenza in the United States. The decision permits health care providers to use mRNA technology for annual influenza vaccination in eligible age groups.1 FDA regulators approved mFLUSIVA to […]
Texas Attorney General Investigates AAP’s Financial Ties to Childhood Vaccine Recommendations
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a wide-sweeping investigation into financial incentives tied to childhood vaccinations in January, his office issued more than twenty civil investigative demands to pediatric providers, insurance companies, and vaccine manufacturers across the country. Seven months later, that investigation has expanded. Paxton’s office has now issued a civil investigative demand […]
Presidential Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines and Autism Issued
On Aug. 10, 2026, the Trump administration issued an executive order revising the childhood vaccine recommendations in the United States. The order calls for recommending that all children be vaccinated against eleven diseases (down from the current 17), including measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, and […]
Live Experimental Pneumonic Plague Vaccines Being Developed After Repeated Attempts
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) researchers have developed live attenuated experimental pneumonic plague vaccines that, according to a July 28, 2026 press release, fully protected mice in a preclinical study. The findings were published in Science Translational Medicine and, according to UTMB researchers, “challenge decades of assumptions about how immunity to plague works and […]
Oral Vaccine Being Developed for Invasive Bacterial Diarrhea
Researchers are taking steps toward developing an live attenuated oral vaccine aimed at preventing invasive bacterial diarrhea caused by the Shigella bacteria.1 The Shigella bacteria can cause shigellosis—an intestinal infection characterized by diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps. It is one of four highly contagious bacteria that infects tens of millions of people around the world.2 […]
Meningococcal B Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Gonorrhea
A new randomized controlled trial (RCT) published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has found that the Meningitis B vaccine does not prevent gonorrhea infections despite a year-long mass vaccination campaign targeting at-risk men in the United Kingdom. After gonorrhea cases exceeded the highest levels ever recorded, the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) […]