According to Amy Phelps from the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, the vaccine is intended to help prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis which can be deadly within hours.

The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.

The search to find a vaccine to prevent polio took many years and countless experiments before the disease was eventually eradicated in the United States.

The New York State Department of Health announced that the Wadsworth Center has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to serve a ...

Winter sicknesses are surging in the Sunshine State. Doctors across Central Florida say people are struggling to shake off the flu this year for some reason.

The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine offers the highest efficacy in the history of malaria vaccine development as reported by Mehreen Datoo and colleagues.1 The potential for saving the lives of African ...

We thank the authors for their interest in our paper, and their queries. In response to Yue Li and Guangsen Liu, given the current situation of malaria deaths and cases increasing in recent years,1 it ...

Faced with the highly infectious H5N1 strain, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner says.

Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.

Health authorities need to be concerned about bird flu, but the risk to the public is low. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges ...

MIT and Caltech scientists designed a new vaccine targeting stable virus regions to protect against various coronavirus strains.