Skip to content

The Disease Daily

  • About
    • Terms of Use
  • Authors
  • Categories
    • Commentary
    • DD on Take Part
    • Featured Series
    • Outbreak News
    • Research & Policy
    • The Script

Tag: immunization

  • Home
  • immunization
Featured Series

Just the Vax, Please: Another vaccine myth busted — this time on safety testing.

August 18, 2014January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. To celebrate, we are going to tackle a myth about vaccination every Monday throughout the month. View previous posts

Read More
Featured Series

Just the Vax, Please: Busting the “Too Many, Too Soon” Myth

August 11, 2014January 25, 2023 Jane Huston

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. To celebrate, we are going to tackle a myth about vaccination every Monday throughout the month. See previous posts

Read More
Featured Series

Just the Vax, Please: Have you heard these “toxic” vaccine myths?

August 4, 2014January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. To celebrate, we are going to tackle a myth about vaccination every Monday throughout the month. Do you know

Read More
Outbreak News

Measles Reemerges in Vietnam

February 28, 2014January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

After three years of relative quiet, measles has reemerged with vengeance in Vietnam. Since January 2014, an outbreak that has spread through twenty-four cities and

Read More
Featured Series

Introducing: “Just the Vax, Please.”

November 4, 2013January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

Hi, I’m Jane. And I’m Robyn. We’re public health nerds with one very important thing in common: we’re passionate about vaccines. In the public health

Read More
Outbreak News

Polio Suspected in Syria

October 28, 2013January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

UPDATE 10/29/13: The World Health Organization has reported their laboratory in Tunis isolated the wild polio virus in samples taken from 10 of 22 Syrian

Read More
Research & Policy

National Immunization Awareness Month: Immunizations Are Not Just For Kids

August 22, 2013January 25, 2023 Jane Huston

The need for immunizations doesn’t end with childhood. Each year, thousands of adults in the United States suffer serious health problems, are hospitalized, or even

Read More
DD on Take Part

Why 223 Cases of Polio Still Matter

April 3, 2013January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

For many Americans, especially young adults, poliovirus not only has no relevance to their lives, they may not even be sure what it is or

Read More
Research & Policy

Thimerosal To Return To Vaccines?

December 21, 2012January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

In a press release from Dec. 17, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the World Health Organization’s recommendation that thimersol, an organomercurial compound used as

Read More
Research & Policy

Lenient Standards Lead to More Medical Exemptions From Vaccines in Kindergartners

September 7, 2012January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

In states where medical exemptions for school vaccinations are easier to get, exemption rates are higher, according to a new study published late last month

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 Next

Recent Posts

  • This Season’s Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) Outbreak
  • Update on Ebola Outbreak in Uganda
  • Cholera Outbreak in Haiti – First in 3 Years
  • Poliovirus Spreading in the United States: New York Declares State of Emergency
  • Outbreak of Ebola Sudan Strain Declared in Uganda

Categories

  • Commentary
  • DD on Take Part
  • Featured Series
  • Outbreak News
  • Research & Policy
All Rights Reserved 2022.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Fairy by Candid Themes.