Baby in Nepal Dies After Getting Six Vaccines
A six-week-old baby in Nepal died after receiving six vaccines. The child, Bunu Dewan, reportedly received the BCG, DPT, fIPV and PCV vaccines at a community health center in the town of Simaltar. Bunu’s condition…
CONTINUE READINGMassachusetts Health Care Workers Refusing Free Flu Shots
Story Highlights Hundreds of health care workers in Massachusetts are declining the annual flu shot. Health care worker flu shot…
Only One Percent of Vaccine Reactions Reported to VAERS
Story Highlights The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was created by Congress in 1986 as part of the National Childhood…
Injecting TB Vaccines Into the Veins vs Reducing Poverty
The journal Nature recently reported that tuberculosis (TB) vaccine developers discovered TB vaccine is much more effective if it is…
How Vaccines are Made
Opinion | If you do a Google search on the topic of how vaccines are made, the first hit you…
Fully Vaccinated School in Houston Closes Due to Pertussis Outbreak
A Catholic high school in Houston, Texas closed early for the Christmas holidays due to seven confirmed cases of pertussis…
Samoa Measles Emergency Extended
On Dec. 20, 2019, the government of Samoa announced that 94 percent of the island nation’s population of about 200,000…