By Joan Connelly and Emily Cohn Image courtesy of Blake Patterson on Flickr, CC Tetanus is a non-communicable disease caused by exposure to the toxin-producing
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One confirmed case and three suspected cases of polio have been reported in Venezuela, the first cases to emerge since polio was eradicated from
Less than one week after cases of Ebola were confirmed to have reached an urban area the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health authorities,
12 June 2017—Massachusetts’ Public Health officials are now issuing a notice on the cluster of mumps cases within the state. Since the end of
In 2012, an estimated 122 of the 223 global cases of polio occurred in Nigeria, more than half of the cases worldwide (1,3). Worldwide efforts
You might have noticed, but we changed our name. We could tell you that we wanted to find something that suited our voice or better
August is National Immunization Awareness Month. To celebrate, we are going to tackle a myth about vaccination every Monday throughout the month. View previous posts
Polio is a highly infectious disease that mainly affects children under age five and leads to irreversible paralysis in about one of every 200 cases.
It happens often. I’m at a dinner party or book club meeting, and a new acquaintance asks me what I do. “I work in vaccine
Two out of five. When public health officials make their rounds to encourage everyone six months of age and older to get the flu vaccine