Vaccination Exemption Rates Increased Among U.S. Kindergarteners in 40 States
A new report published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) states that during the 2022–2023 school year, vaccination coverage remained at 93 percent for all reported vaccines. However, the vaccine exemption rate increased 0.4 percentage points to three percent. Exemptions increased in 41 states, and […]
Sperm Donors Who Did Not Get COVID Shots in High Demand
In 2021, a news website on crypto (digital money), known as Protos, reported a prediction that sperm from males who did not get the COVID-19 shots would become the next Bitcoin. The prediction occurred during a 2021 time period when there was speculation the mRNA COVID shots would cause infertility and reproductive issues.1 Crypto Currency […]
Poster Child for COVID Shot in Israel Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack
The “poster child” for the Israeli government’s national campaign to vaccinate children in Israel against COVID-19 died on Sept. 28, 2023, a few days after suffering a sudden heart attack while taking a bath. The child, eight-year-old Yonatan Moshe Erlichman, was featured in a 12-minute promotional video produced by the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council in […]
CDC Says Overweight People Need Longer Needles for Vaccinations
If you were among the many who experienced a breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection despite getting a COVID-19 shot (or two or three), federal health officials suggest that—if you are overweight or obese—the length of the needle used to inject you might be to blame, not vaccine failure. New recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control […]
Survey Finds 50 Percent of Americans Will Not Get Influenza Vaccine
A recent survey, which was conducted by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) to better understand the public’s attitudes and beliefs about influenza, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumococcal disease, found that many adults in the United States are not concerned about these respiratory diseases. As a result, many Americans do not plan […]
African Swine Fever Vaccines Co-Developed by USDA Approved for Commercial Use in Pigs in Vietnam
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has approved commercial use of the first two African swine fever vaccines for pigs. The first vaccine is known as NAVET-ASFVAC, co-developed by Navetco Central Veterinary Medicine in Vietnam and United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the second is called AVAC ASF LIVE, […]