Tag: Vaccine Opposition

The frequency of vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks is increasing in the United States. A principal factor in disease transmission has ...

In 1978, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) targeted the elimination of measles from the U.S. by 1982. ...

On April 9th, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency amid the ongoing measles outbreak in ...

According to a new survey conducted online by The Harris Poll, commissioned by CareDox and Families Fighting Flu, most Americans ...

A social movement of public health vaccine opposition has been growing in the United States in recent years; subsequently, measles ...

Before the measles vaccine became available in 1963, there were approximately 3 to 4 million cases, and an average of ...

Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the U.S. economy $8.95 billion in 2015, and unvaccinated individuals are responsible for 80 percent, ...

Lax state vaccination laws contribute to lower immunization rates and increased outbreaks of preventable diseases--like whooping cough and measles--according to ...

The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health asked parents in May how their views ...

In the past 12 months the European Union has reported 3,809 cases of measles, according the European Centre for Disease ...

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), an organization of physicians, scientists, and other medical professionals dedicated to treating and preventing ...

A 2014 case of infant measles in the Philippines. Credit: Rebecca Martin/CDC Toronto Public Health (TPH) ...

Doctors and public health authorities need to renew their attention to measles, researchers from Emory Vaccine Center urge in an ...

Measles have reached a 20-year high in the United States. Eighty-five percent of the unvaccinated U.S. residents who contracted measles ...