Vaccination News

Last week, WHO announced that it will begin using the term “mpox” for monkeypox disease to avoid stigmatizing language.

Hospitalizations for influenza are the highest they have been at this time of year since 2010, the CDC reported Friday.

The CDC said Wednesday that it will expand wastewater testing for poliovirus in certain U.S. jurisdictions, including Michigan and Philadelphia.

Maternal influenza vaccination was around 65% effective at preventing influenza-associated hospitalizations among infants when the viruses matched what was in the vaccine, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Experts said a “tripledemic” of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and COVID-19 is overwhelming hospitals, but Americans can reduce their risk for hospitalization or death through vaccination and mitigation measures.

WHO on Monday announced it will start using the term ”mpox” to refer to monkeypox disease, citing “racist and stigmatizing language” used during this year’s global outbreak as a reason.

Almost 40 million children missed their first or second dose of measles vaccine in 2021 — a new record — as measles vaccine coverage reached its lowest level since 2008, according to a report in MMWR.

About 15% of parents have not discussed any vaccines with their child’s primary care provider during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent national survey found.

Since the beginning of November, the central Ohio region has experienced an outbreak of measles that now totals 24 cases — all of them in unvaccinated children, according to the city of Columbus.

New data published in an MMWR report showed that patients with COVID-19 given a prescription for Paxlovid had a lower rate of hospitalization.