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3 weeks ago

This Trump crank is less welcome — and way, way more dangerous — than a full colonoscopy I got a colonoscopy the other day: something everyone who has one seems to complain about. They bitch ab...

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3 weeks ago

This Trump crank is less welcome — and way, way more dangerous — than a full colonoscopy I got a colonoscopy the other day: something everyone who has one seems to complain about. They bitch ab...

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Mnemosyne

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3 weeks ago

#Science #Immunisation

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Nursing in Practice Podcast: An update for GPNs on immunisation changes The latest episode of the Nursing in Practice Podcast explores recent developments in vaccination and respiratory health

1 month ago

Nursing in Practice Podcast: An update for GPNs on immunisation changes

The fourth episode of the Nursing in Practice Podcast is live and available to listen to on Spotify and Apple Music.

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Kerry Cullinan

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1 month ago

US Health Secretary #RFKJr is jeopardising the #immunisation of hundreds of thousands of children in poor countries by refusing to contribute to #Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, unless it removes a preservative he deems dangerous, without any science to back him. ⬇️

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TheChef

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1 month ago

#auspol #Measles #Immunisation

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Michael Woodhead

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1 month ago

#Vaccine vans. China has a robust science-based state-subsidized #immunisation program

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Pakistan to vaccinate over 45 million children in first 2026 anti-polio campaign - Yes Punjab News Pakistan will vaccinate over 45 million children in a nationwide polio eradication campaign from February 2–8, 2026.

1 month ago

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YesPunjab.com

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2 months ago

Pakistan to vaccinate over 45 million children in first 2026 anti-polio campaign yespunjab.com?p=204258

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Raw Story

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2 months ago

This Trump loyalist's shocking decision put your family in the crosshairs **_ByJake Scott, Clinical Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University. _** The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood vaccination schedule, announced by federal health officials on Jan. 5, 2026, has raised alarm among public health experts and pediatricians. The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious infections. The basic structure has been in place since 1995, when federal health officials and medical organizations first issued a unified national standard, though new vaccines have been added regularly as science advanced. That schedule is now being dismantled. In all, the sweeping change reduces the universally recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11. It moves vaccines against rotavirus, influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and meningococcal disease from routine recommendations to “shared clinical decision-making,” a category that shifts responsibility for initiating vaccination from the health care system to individual families. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has cast doubt on vaccine safety for decades, justified these changes by citing a 33-page assessment comparing the U.S. schedule to Denmark’s. But the two countries differ in important ways. Denmark has 6 million people, universal health care and a national registry that tracks every patient. In contrast, the U.S. has 330 million people, 27 million uninsured and a system where millions move between providers. These changes follow the CDC’s decision in December 2025 to drop a long-held recommendation that all newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, despite no new evidence that questions the vaccine’s long-standing safety record. I’m an infectious disease physician who treats vaccine-preventable diseases and reviews the clinical trial evidence behind immunization recommendations. The vaccine schedule wasn’t designed in a single stroke. It was built gradually over decades, shaped by disease outbreaks, technological breakthroughs and hard-won lessons about reducing childhood illness and death. ## The early years For the first half of the 20th century, most states required that students be vaccinated against smallpox to enter the public school system. But there was no unified national schedule. The combination vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, known as the DTP vaccine, emerged in 1948, and the Salk polio vaccine arrived in 1955, but recommendations for when and how to give them varied by state, by physician and even by neighborhood. The federal government stepped in after tragedy struck. In 1955, a manufacturing failure at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, produced batches of polio vaccine containing live virus, causing paralysis in dozens of children. The incident made clear that vaccination couldn’t remain a patchwork affair. It required federal oversight. In 1964, the U.S. surgeon general established the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, to provide expert guidance and recommendations to the CDC on vaccine use. For the first time, a single body would evaluate the evidence and issue national recommendations. ## New viral vaccines Through the 1960s, vaccines against measles (1963), mumps (1967) and rubella (1969) were licensed and eventually combined into what’s known as the MMR shot in 1971. Each addition followed a similar pattern: a disease that killed or disabled thousands of children annually, a vaccine that proved safe and effective in trials, and a recommendation that transformed a seemingly inevitable childhood illness into something preventable. The rubella vaccine went beyond protecting the children who received it. Rubella, also called German measles, is mild in children but devastating to fetuses, causing deafness, heart defects and intellectual disabilities when pregnant women are infected. A rubella epidemic in 1964 and 1965 drove this point home: 12.5 million infections and 20,000 cases of congenital rubella syndrome left thousands of children deaf or blind. Vaccinating children also helped protect pregnant women by curbing the spread of infection. By 2015, rubella had been eliminated from the Americas. ## Hepatitis B and the safety net In 1991, the CDC added hepatitis B vaccination at birth to the schedule. Before then, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday. Many parents wonder why newborns need this vaccine. The answer lies in biology and the limitations of screening. An adult who contracts hepatitis B has a 95 percent chance of clearing the virus. An infant infected in the first months of life has a 90 percent chance of developing chronic infection, and 1 in 4 will eventually die from liver failure or cancer. Infants can acquire the virus from their mothers during birth, from infected household members or through casual contact in child care settings. The virus survives on surfaces for days and is highly contagious. Early strategies that targeted only high-risk groups failed because screening missed too many infected mothers. Even today, roughly 12 percent to 18 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. are never screened for hepatitis B. Until ACIP dropped the recommendation in early December 2025, a first dose of this vaccine at birth served as a safety net, protecting all infants regardless of whether their mothers’ infection status was accurately known. This safety net worked: Hepatitis B infections in American children fell by 99 percent. ## A unified standard For decades, different medical organizations issued their own, sometimes conflicting, recommendations. In 1995, ACIP, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians jointly released the first unified childhood immunization schedule, the ancestor of today’s familiar grid. For the first time, parents and physicians had a single national standard. The schedule continued to evolve. ACIP recommended vaccinations for chickenpox in 1996; rotavirus in 2006, replacing an earlier version withdrawn after safety monitoring detected a rare side effect; and HPV, also in 2006. Each addition followed the same rigorous process: evidence review, risk-benefit analysis and a public vote by the advisory committee. ## More vaccines, less burden Vaccine skeptics, including Kennedy, often claim erroneously that children’s immune systems are overloaded because the number of vaccines they receive has increased. This argument is routinely marshaled to argue for a reduced childhood vaccination schedule. One fact often surprises parents: Despite the increase in recommended vaccines, the number of immune-stimulating molecules in those vaccines, called antigens, has dropped dramatically since the 1980s, which means they are less demanding on a child’s immune system. The whole-cell pertussis vaccine used in the 1980s alone contained roughly 3,000 antigens. Today’s entire schedule contains fewer than 160 antigens, thanks to advances in vaccine technology that allow precise targeting of only the components needed for protection. ## What lies ahead For decades, ACIP recommended changes to the childhood schedule only when new evidence or clear shifts in disease risk demanded it. The Jan. 5 announcement represents a fundamental break from that norm: Multiple vaccines moved out of routine recommendations simultaneously, justified not by new safety data but by comparison to a country with a fundamentally different health care system. Kennedy accomplished this by filling positions involved in vaccine safety with political appointees. His hand-picked ACIP is stacked with members with a history of anti-vaccine views. The authors of the assessment justifying the change, senior officials at the Food and Drug Administration and at HHS, are both long-time critics of the existing vaccine schedule. The acting CDC director who signed the decision memo is an investor with no clinical or scientific background. The practical effect will be felt in clinics across the country. Routine recommendations trigger automatic prompts in medical records and enable nurses to vaccinate under standing orders. “Shared clinical decision-making” requires a physician to be involved in every vaccination decision, creating bottlenecks that will inevitably reduce uptake, particularly for the more than 100 million Americans who lack regular access to primary care. Major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have said that they will continue recommending the full complement of childhood vaccines. Several states, including California, New York and Illinois, will follow established guidelines rather than the new federal recommendations, creating a patchwork where children’s protection depends on where they live. * _Portions of this article originally appeared in a previous article published onDec. 18, 2025._

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Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, Li…

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2 months ago

US removes universal guidance for four childhood vaccines The United States has removed its longstanding universal recommendation for four childhood vaccines, marking a major shift in national immunisation policy. The change affects vaccines for rotavirus, influenza, meningococcal disease and hepatitis A, with parents now advised to decide in consultation with healthcare providers under a shared decision-making model. Read More: Pakistan vaccinating over 44.6 […]

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Covid-19 vaccination to be offered to high-risk groups in spring 2026 The government has confirmed that in spring 2026, Covid-19 vaccination will be offered in England to those at highest risk

2 months ago

Covid-19 vaccination to be offered to high-risk groups in spring 2026

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Covid-19 vaccination to be offered to high-risk groups in spring 2026 The government has confirmed that in spring 2026, Covid-19 vaccination will be offered in England to those at highest risk

2 months ago

Covid-19 vaccination to be offered to high-risk groups in spring 2026

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Raw Story

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3 months ago

These alarming changes show how Trump is wrecking public health As a family physician, I work every day to earn the trust of my patients. I see lines being blurred between politics and medicine and, despite the high trust the public has in their own physician, it is becoming harder to separate medical and scientific information from misinformation. I hear this concern from my patients, particularly when trusted resources, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), make drastic policy shifts: Is this science based decision-making or politics? #### Who do you trust? With every new patient I see, I share my approach to care by saying, “I work for you. In many ways, you are my boss. My job is the make assessments and recommendations, yours is to make decisions, and I’m here to help you with that. How does that sound to you?” People universally embrace this approach. It promotes individual autonomy and shifts the power to the patient — where it belongs. National surveys reveal that trust in government agencies such as the CDC is at an all time low, on par with approval ratings for Congress. However, trust in one’s own personal physician remains very high, with nearly eight in 10 people rating their personal doctors as “very good” or “excellent,” according to a recent People’s Voices Survey. Despite this relatively high trust the public has in their own doctors, the insertion of politics into the exam room has made it harder for people to make the right decisions for themselves by infecting the relationship between people and their doctors with misinformation, causing people to second guess recommendations they are receiving. #### Pull back the curtain The public has good reason to be suspicious of the CDC right now. The changes approved last week by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, are arbitrary, not science-based, and go against decades of safety and efficacy data. Their vote to remove hepatitis B vaccination from the recommended infant and child schedule will lead to a resurgence of hepatitis B. Prior to recommending newborn vaccination in 1991, 18,000 children were diagnosed annually with hep B, a chronic illness that leads to liver failure and liver cancer. Half of these children were infected through mother-to-child transmission, and giving the shot at birth prevents the virus from taking hold. The other half occurred through contact with saliva or blood exposure to someone else who is infected. The virus can stay active for up to a week on surfaces and is known to have been transmitted during sports and in child care settings, through coming in contact with the virus by touching a contaminated surface, or exposure to scrapes or bites. (Up to half of the children in child care are bitten by another child each year.) Since vaccination was universally recommended, infection rates have dropped by nearly 99 percent, and today we see much less liver failure and cancer resulting from hepatitis B infection. No one wants to see those numbers increase again. #### What are physicians saying? Making ACIP a political committee rather than one based on science means that recommendations are subject to bias and can no longer be trusted. This breach of trust by our government results in lack of confidence in vaccine recommendations across the board, including those by the public’s trusted health care professionals who they continue to see as excellent. Because politics and politicians are interfering with the patient-doctor relationships and undermining trust in public health measures like vaccines, we will likely see infections rise as we have seen with measles this past year. While the federal government is spreading misinformation through ACIP and the CDC, the state of New Hampshire is showing that it still trusts doctors over politics with regard to childhood vaccines, directing New Hampshire doctors to adhere to vaccine recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians. As I stated earlier, I work every day to earn the trust of my patients and to share the best medical information and highest-quality patient care available. I keep politics out of the exam room, and we need the politicians to stay out of our exam rooms and our relationships with our patients. When going to see your doctor, remember that we work for you and our recommendations are based on years of training, a dedication to science, and, most importantly, a commitment to partnering with you to make the best decisions for your health. * _P. Travis Harker, MD, MPH is a family physician in Portsmouth and a past president of the New Hampshire Medical Society._

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Wiobs

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3 months ago

Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, Reaffirms WHO Amid Renewed Global Debate - WHO reaffirms that vaccines do not cause autism, citing global research and warning against misinformation that threatens

Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, Reaffirms WHO Amid Renewed Global Debate wiobs.com/vaccines-do-... #VaccineSafety #AutismAwareness #WHO #PublicHealth #Immunisation

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New mpox strain identified in England, UKHSA confirms The UKHSA has identified a new recombinant mpox strain in England in an individual who had recently travelled to Asia.

3 months ago

New mpox strain identified in England, UKHSA confirms

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Philippa Matthews

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3 months ago

US vaccine panel votes to end universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns Trump, who called the decision

Dangerous retrograde step as #US #CDC pulls back on recommendations for #HBV #vaccine at #birth & dilutes advice for a proper three dose #immunisation schedule.
This is a safe, cheap, robust & well-evidenced vaccine.
There is no evidence of harm. 🧪
@who.int @gavi.org
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3 months ago

Trump's decisions have now put our children at deadly risk By David Higgins , Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The committee advising the Center...

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3 months ago

Trump's decisions have now put our children at deadly risk By David Higgins , Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The committee advising the Center...

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