At least 7000 people in Syria are affected with measles by the disrupted vaccination program caused from the ongoing civil war. The immunization program suffered a critical disruption and vaccination coverage for measles has dropped by eighty percent. Young children seem to be worse off by not being able to get the vaccination. The measles […]
A student at the University of California Berkeley who never received a vaccination against measles has contracted the disease. Health officials from the City of Berkeley are warning Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commuters that they may have come into contact with the student and possibly been exposed to the disease. The student rode BART […]
The HPV vaccine has not been widely used or accepted, even by doctors, according to the President’s Cancer Panel. Though the vaccine has been available for eight years, the panel only shows that one-third of girls have received all three injections as recommended. The human papillomavirus causes cancer. As many as 79 million Americans are […]
