Vaccination News

Mpox can spread a variety of ways — including through close face-to-face and skin-to-skin contact — but sexual activity remains the most common route of exposure, new study findings suggest.

A study of 10-year follow-up data showed no cases of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia and few cases of HPV infection among almost 1,300 boys and girls who received the 9-valent HPV vaccine, according to results published in Pediatrics.

For the first time, many Americans will enter the fall with multiple options to protect themselves against respiratory syncytial virus, even young children.

HPV vaccine coverage in U.S. teenagers did not increase in 2022 for the first time in a decade, according to data published in MMWR.

CDC experts argued recently that the time is right to revisit the need for a vaccine against West Nile virus, which remains the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the United States.

CDC advisors will meet next month to vote on recommendations for the updated COVID-19 vaccines that are expected to be available in the United States this fall, according to a notice published Friday in the Federal Register.

A study of more than 30,000 hospitalized children with SARS-CoV-2 infection found that ICU admissions for COVID-19 decreased over the course of the pandemic but ventilatory and oxygen support for the youngest children did not.

Novavax on Tuesday said its updated COVID-19 vaccine candidate induced neutralizing antibodies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 subvariants in small animal and non-human primate studies.

The FDA has approved the first vaccine for pregnant people to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus.

Health care workers who picked their nose were three times as likely to acquire SARS-CoV-2 as those who did not, according to recent study results.