Texas is facing its largest measles outbreak in nearly 30 years, with 124 confirmed cases as of February 25, 2025. The outbreak, which started in late January, has been most severe in Gaines County, where 80 cases have been recorded.

West Virginia senators voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies Friday by greenlighting an exemption for families who say mandated inoculations conflict with their religious or philosophical beliefs.

Lab tests suggest a strain of the flu virus circulating this season may not be "well-recognized" by the flu vaccine.

A personalized mRNA vaccine appeared to reduce the chances of pancreatic cancer returning after surgery, according to a study published in the journal Nature.

The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent lawyer and vocal vaccine critic, as the nation's health secretary, controlling $1.7 trillion in spending for vaccines,

As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory: The virus is being caused by the vaccine itself.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.

Of the 900 Californians who have succumbed to influenza this season, 15 were children, according to state public health data.

Kennedy Jr.'s installation atop the nation’s health bureaucracy. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) normally holds multiple meetings a year, reviews scientific data and makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control.

The US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, as an outbreak of a newer variant ravages poultry flocks, contributing to the sky high price of eggs.

The vast majority of districts and institutions have either ended any coronavirus vaccination requirements or never chose to implement such a rule in the first place, as COVID-19 cases dropped and immunization rates rose among the general population.