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On February 6-7, The Task Force for Global Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened the 2nd Annual CDC and Partnership for Influenza Vaccine Introduction (PIVI) [...]

Each April, the country of Nicaragua organizes a month-long campaign to promote and give necessary vaccines to men, women and children throughout the country. Rather than taking place in a [...]

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a lower-middle income country making steady progress improving maternal and child health outcomes. We sought to ascertain if there have [...]

The Department of Agriculture in the North West has warned communities in the province to be alert following another bird flu outbreak. The latest outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian [...]

A number of deaths have been confirmed at a Tasmanian nursing home during an influenza outbreak, the ABC can reveal.

This comes after more than 39,000 cases of influenza were reported in … NSW Health shows there have been 39,082 cases of the flu during August.

New figures show that the flu vaccine nasal spray reduced the risk of vaccinated children getting flu by more than 65% in the last flu season in England …

Last winter’s vaccine reduced the risk of flu by 66% in children, according to Public Health England, up 8% on last year. Read More

Thanks to vaccinations, diseases such as polio and diphtheria are becoming rare in the United States. There are physicians who rarely – if ever – treat a case of measles. That’s [...]

Just like winter, flu season is coming. And as it does, employers grapple with the best way to protect their employees (as well as customers, patients, clients and students) from contracting the [...]