A live virus vaccine contains a live, weakened (attenuated) virus that helps your body develop an immune response without you developing symptoms of the disease it is intended to prevent. Examples ...

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This chapter provides National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommendations for the prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease using recently authorized pneumococcal conjugate vaccines ...

Consider three topics of much public discussion: measles vaccines, raw milk and water fluoridation. All three represent fault lines between what is said by public health agencies and what is said ...

Pregnant mothers and newborn babies in every state will have access to free vaccines for RSV before next winter. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler said 12,000 babies are admitted to hospital ...

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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the country’s most notorious vaccine skeptics, to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a sprawling ...

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The pneumonia shot is a vaccine that helps protect you against pneumococcal disease, or diseases caused by bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae. The vaccine can help protect you from ...

Kennedy Jr., who may play a key role overseeing public health issues in a second Trump administration, said Wednesday that he wouldn't “take away anybody's vaccines.” Asked said in an ...

Inactivated vaccines, also called killed vaccines, are made from a protein or other small pieces taken from a virus or bacteria. They use this component to stimulate the immune system to protect the ...

A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) lists 17 bacteria, viruses and parasites that regularly cause disease as top priorities for new vaccine development. The study is the first global ...