According to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef), 14.5 million children received no routine ...

A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

A new study points out success stories — and potential obstacles — to bringing vaccines to the world's children.

ECONOMIC inequality, disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic and misinformation have slowed down global efforts to vaccinate ...

Researchers said on Tuesday that vaccination rates among children are dropping across the world, increasing the risk of ...

Routine vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, but efforts have been slowing ...

South Dakota’s immunization law requires children entering school or early childhood programs to be immunized against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus ...

The trend is, however, deeply troubling, especially against the backdrop of the resurgence of diseases once virtually extinct. A massive measles outbreak in Texas, for example, has sickened nearly 700 ...

Immunization varies by state. New York, for example, had an estimated childhood vaccination rate of 97.7% for the 2023-24 school year, according to the CDC. Idaho had a rate of just 79.6%.

Whooping cough cases surge as vaccine rates fall The U.S. has tallied 8,077 cases of whooping cough in 2025, compared with 3,847 cases in the same period last year, federal data shows.

A 5% increase in vaccination coverage can reduce symptomatic influenza cases across all age groups, especially in preschool children and adults ages 65 and older.

Another new report from Truveta found that in 2024 just 80.4% of children had received two doses of the MMR vaccine by the time they turned 6, far lower than CDC estimates, which put coverage at ...