Vaccination

How can Sweden better protect public health during the next pandemic? A new study from Lund University shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, new arrivals to Sweden were excluded from information, despite good intentions on the part of the authorities. This may have influenced their willingness to get vaccinated.

Flu shots save lives across the United States every year. These vaccines are good at protecting the population from severe influenza infections, but not every person gets the same level of protection.

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday canceled a $590 million contract with Moderna to develop an avian flu vaccine, the US biotech company said.

Want a COVID-19 vaccination this fall? For many Americans, it’s not clear how easy it will be to get one—or if they’ve lost the choice.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends extra measles protection for people traveling to areas with active outbreaks in the United States, CBS News reported.

The issue of intestinal bacteria is a complex one. On the one hand, people are dependent on the microorganisms because they are the ones that digest the food. On the other hand, there are also numerous pathogens present among the bacteria.

More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates—even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas.

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.