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Vaccines

Anastasia, 3, is held by her mother, as she receives treatment at a schoolhouse that has been converted into a field hospital, in Mostyska, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022.
Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is hampering efforts to stop a polio outbreak
A 5-year-old boy gets his first dose of China's Sinovac vaccine, at a vaccination center in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. 
COVID-19
Why Chile moved ahead with COVID vaccines for the very young
A vial of the Moderna vaccine for the coronavirus.
What does Moderna owe the world?
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
A nurse prepares a syringe for a patient infected with the coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the Syrian American Medical Society Hospital
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The challenges of vaccinating people in conflict zones
Eusebio Torres waits to be vaccinated as a nurse prepares the dose of the Cuban Abdala COVID-19 vaccine at the Gustavo Aldereguia hospital in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Sunday, May 30, 2021.
COVID-19
Cuba’s promise of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine  
Author Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala poses for the camera in a dark blue outfit
Leaders
WTO head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on vaccines: ‘We have to solve the health crisis if we want economic recovery’
A nurse administers a shot to an elderly man wearing a white T-shirt and black pants at his home.
COVID-19
Dual citizens in Mexico seek vaccine options in the US as rollout lags
A health care worker prepares a dose of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, at the Del Norte Hospital in El Alto, Bolivia, on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021.
COVID-19
Sputnik V vaccine is nearly 92% effective — a ‘political win for Putin’
A health worker gives an injection to a mock patient during a coronavirus vaccine drill in Bali, Indonesia.
COVID-19
China’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ fills void in developing world left by US ‘vaccine nationalism’
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House, Nov. 19, 2020.
COVID-19
‘We could crush this outbreak’ with mass vaccinations, says Dr. Anthony Fauci
A model of the coronavirus in red is displayed next to boxes of COVID-19 vaccines
Health & Medicine
China OKs first homegrown vaccine as COVID-19 surges globally
A pregnant woman wearing a red shirt holds her belly with a plastic gloved hand.
COVID-19
Should pregnant women get the COVID-19 vaccine? An immunologist answers 3 questions.
KEMRI’s principal investigator, George Warimwe, for the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial is shown at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust lab in Kilifi, Kenya, on Nov. 13, 2020.
Kenya launches Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine trial amid second wave of coronavirus
Four vertical syringes of SARS CoV-2 Vaccine for COVID-19
Pandemic set to widen global inequality
Two researchers are shown through large windows wearing full medical garments in a white laboratory.
COVID-19
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine study paused after illness
Clinical Research Nurse Aneta Gupta labels blood samples from volunteer Yash during the Imperial College vaccine trial, at a clinic in London, Aug. 5, 2020.
COVID-19
A global initiative could ensure equitable access to a COVID-19 vaccine. Can it work?
A woman is shown wearing a tank top and sitting while receiving an injection from a medical professional.
Top of The World
Moderna, NIH coronavirus vaccine study underway; Vietnam back on high alert over coronavirus; UK blindsides travelers from Spain
A photo illustration of vaccine bottles and a syringe
World faces risk of ‘vaccine nationalism’ in COVID-19 fight, says CEPI chair
Edward Jenner, vaccinating his young child, held by Mrs. Jenner; a maid rolls up her sleeve, a man stands outside holding a cow. Coloured engraving by C. Manigaud after E Hamman.
From cow pox to mumps: people have always had a problem with vaccination
A nurse wears a white face mask as she holds a syringe in her hand
Health & Medicine
Samoa’s measles epidemic is part of a global, unprecedented resurgence of cases
A child is given an oral vaccine.
Health & Medicine
A newly designed vaccine may help stamp out remaining polio cases worldwide
A woman sits at a table and writes on a notepad.
Health & Medicine
From measles to the flu, more Turkish parents are saying no to vaccines
don't wait, vaccinate signs
Health & Medicine
Measles: Should vaccinations be compulsory?
The percentage of parents who refuse to give any vaccines to their children remain at one to two percent of the general public. There is a much larger group of people who have doubts and concerns over certain vaccinations, experts say.
Health
Despite dozens of recent flu deaths among US children, vaccination skeptics remain — and their numbers have grown
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A baby born with microcephaly reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil on January 28, 2016.
Health
We’re not sure if Zika is causing all those microcephaly cases. But there’s no evidence it’s pesticides.
A man smokes a cigar while standing next to a window in Havana, January 20, 2005.
Health
Americans could soon benefit from a lung cancer vaccine developed in Cuba
Teenager receives an immunization
Health
A Wisconsin neighborhood’s deep divisions over vaccination expose the fault lines of a nation
Health
Why 21st-century anti-vaxxers have nothing on their 18th-century counterparts
A girl cries before receiving polio vaccine drops at a government children's hospital in Peshawar on March 3, 2015. Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio.
Health
Facing a determined opposition, Pakistani officials tell parents to vaccinate their kids or go to jail
Innoculation always prompts anxiety. Here's how France dealt with it three centuries ago.
Culture
How France used fashion to spread the message to vaccinate
A measles outbreak is taking hold in the US
Medicine
A discredited British study helped create today’s anti-vaccine movement
A girl receives anti-measles vaccination drops in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Mass national vaccination campaigns against measles and polio are common in much of the developing world.
Health
A Nigerian writer mocks US disease concern, saying that Africa should screen Americans for measles
Ten-month old Lauren Durbin receives an injection for measles, mumps and rubella. Typically children do not receive the MMR vaccine until they are 12 months old.
Health
What Sweden can teach America about measles vaccinations
Nurse Donna Riccardi administers a shot of Influenze virus vaccine to patient Deanna Joa at the New York Downtown Hospital in New York on January 10, 2013.
Health
The CDC says there’s a flu epidemic raging in America
Pittsburgh Penguins player Sidney Crosby has been diagnosed with the mumps.
Sports
A mumps outbreak benches some of the NHL’s top players
Osman Chandab in Melbourne, Australia contracted whooping cough before getting vaccinated.
Health
No matter where in the world you are, opting out of childhood vaccines can be a catastrophic choice
An electron microscope image of the string-like Ebola virus. Scientists at the NIH are working quickly on a drug and vaccine they hope will halt the spread of Ebola.
Medicine
Scientists are racing to perform human trials on a possible cure and vaccine for Ebola
Health & Medicine
CDC says flu outbreak widespread, too early to determine severity
Health & Medicine
CDC urges boys also now get HPV vaccine, starting at age 11 (with video)
Health & Medicine
Obama administration considering whether to test anthrax vaccine on children
New vaccine provides nearly 50 percent protection from malaria; work still needed
Health & Medicine
H1N1: what you need to know
Health & Medicine
It’s official: (swine) flu shots for everyone
Health & Medicine
One flu vaccine to rule them all
Measles Epidemic in Britain Follows Years of Vaccine Refusals
White House Weighs Testing Anthrax Vaccine on Children
A New Vaccine in the Long Battle Against Malaria
Bioethics Professors Challenge Bachmann’s HPV Claims
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Global Politics
Government update on H1N1 expected