Coverage in kids 4 and younger was 67.8% last season, down 2.2 percentage points.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released new draft guidance that spells out when it's appropriate to disclose retail information for recalled products.
A new study based on 80,000 children shows no association between prenatal Tdap vaccination (tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The study is published in Pediatrics.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) yesterday announced that a baby from San Bernardino County has died from pertussis, marking the state's first death from the disease since 2016.
Health officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin are investigating a Salmonella outbreak linked to frozen breaded chicken products, and Canadian authorities are probing a similar outbreak also linked to the same type of product.
A post hoc study in South African pregnant women who took part in a flu vaccine study in 2011 and 2012 found that flu vaccination may have had a protective effect against Bordetella pertussis. Researchers described their findings today in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that it is involved with efforts to curb a Marburg virus outbreak in eastern Uganda near the border with Kenya, where at least one case has been confirmed and several hundred people may have been exposed at health facilities and at a traditional burial ceremony.
The vaccine protected 78% of newborns from pertussis and 90% from hospitalized cases.
Though coverage still isn't optimal, for the first time rates topped 60%, with the boys' level gaining ground on the girls'.
Babies living in countries affected by conflict made up more than half of the total of unvaccinated group.
An analysis of blood samples from Brazilian patients seen in an emergency department for acute febrile illness found no sign of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) in those with Zika infection who had previously been exposed to dengue virus.
In another sign of further northward spread, China's Inner Mongolia province has reported its first human H7N9 avian flu case, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today in a statement. The development comes just a few weeks after H7N9 was detected for the first time in live-bird markets in Inner Mongolia province. The province mainly borders Mongolia, with a small part abutting Russia.
Brazil, reporting thousands of new chikungunya cases, almost single-handedly produced another big jump in cases in the Americas for the second straight week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported late last week.
PAHO reported 9,522 new confirmed and suspected cases in its Apr 14 update, after logging 7,231 new cases the week before. The case count for 2017 has now reached 29,841, PAHO said.
The vaccine offers strong protection to infants, especially during the first 2 months of life.
A review of Facebook posts on Zika virus found that misleading posts were more popular than ones containing accurate information, according to a recent study by a team from Tulane University.
Pertussis immunization with the acellular vaccine offers high protection during the first 3 years, but immunity tapers off significantly over the next 4 years, Canadian researchers reported today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
Investigators from the University of Pittsburgh yesterday reported 3 cases of ceftazidime-avibactam resistance after 37 patients who had carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections were treated with the combination, according to a case series in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
As part of the effort to preserve medically important antimicrobials, pharmaceutical companies will henceforward be required to report sales of antimicrobial drugs for food animals by species, not just overall totals, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday.
Federal inspection records obtained by Food Safety News (FSN) show that Dole kept a salad processing plant in Ohio operating for about 18 months after finding Listeria contamination there, until an outbreak was traced to the facility in January of this year.
A meta-analysis of 50 studies finds vaccine refusal common in measles, pertussis outbreaks.