VACCINES

A child in the United States getting the measles, mumps and rubella shot in February. Among high-income countries, the US had the most children missing the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017 - more than 2.5 million children. The

Over 20m kids a year missed out on measles vaccine from 2010 to 2017

Apr 26, 2019, 5:00 am

Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks

Apr 25, 2019, 5:27 pm
While some patients and caregivers are not convinced about the benefits of the pneumococcal vaccine, or fear side effects like pain at the injection site and fever, there are other deterrents such as the complexity of vaccination timings for adults a

Pneumonia No. 2 cause of deaths in Singapore, but few vaccinated against it

Apr 24, 2019, 5:00 am

Judge rejects parents' challenge of New York City's mandatory measles vaccination order

Apr 19, 2019, 6:25 am

Chinese mother detained after protest against faulty vaccines

Apr 17, 2019, 3:08 pm

Waiting in line for a jab

Apr 16, 2019, 5:00 am

Monkey, rat and pig DNA: How misinformation is driving the measles outbreak among ultra-orthodox Jews

Apr 10, 2019, 7:59 am

New York orders mandatory measles vaccinations, blasts misinformation fuelling outbreak

Apr 10, 2019, 12:14 am
A supermarket popular among the Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, Rockland County, New York. A measles outbreak in the county has sickened scores of people and intensified smouldering tensions between the rapidly expanding and insular ultra-Orthod

Measles outbreak spreads fear

Mar 31, 2019, 5:00 am

An outbreak spreads fear: Of measles, of ultra-Orthodox Jews, of anti-semitism

Mar 30, 2019, 1:49 pm