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Currently, Washington allows parents to claim school-vaccination exemptions for children at public or private schools or licensed day care centers based on medical, religious and personal or philosophical beliefs, and House Bill 2009 would have remove the personal or philosophical …more

The arguments of parents opposing the uniform vaccination schedule are more reasonable than those of the Czech state, weekly Respekt writes Monday in relation to a bill imposing even stricter punishment for those who do not accept the vaccination schedule.

Rotavac vaccine was developed under the public-private partnership (PPP) model that involved Union Ministry of Science and Technology, US’s National Institute of Health (NIH), NGOs in India supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Bharat Biotech India Limited …more

Egypt is setting records, unfortunately the record is the most human cases of influenza A(H5N1) virus infection reported in one month since 2003. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in a March 3rd Summary and Assessment that Egypt has seen …more

The just-ended nationwide Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination roll out could end up in the regular national immunization schedule. Ministry of Health spokesperson Doreen Motshegwa said judging by the success of the just-ended HPV vaccinations, the ministry might be forced …more

An outbreak of measles won’t change some Canadian parents’ minds about vaccinations, highlighting the ongoing mistrust among so-called anti-vaxxers about the safety and efficacy of modern vaccines. A survey of more than 1,013 Canadians who chose not to inoculate their …more

United Nations health officials have again rejected accusations by Kenya’s bishops that Kenya’s Ministry of Health used tetanus vaccines tainted with a sterility-inducing hormone in a large-scale immunization program in 2014. The charges were made in a four-page statement released …more

Swine flu has claimed another 50 lives in the country taking the death toll to 1,289 while close to 24,000 people had contracted the contagious disease… the number of people affected by the disease showed an upward trend in Gujarat …more

 (07/03/2015)The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that between 1 January 2014 and 1 March 2015, WHO received notification of over 23,000 cases of measles in the WHO European Region. The most affected country is Kyrgyzstan with over 7,000 cases reported …more

The study will involve a combination of Twitter searches and conventional survey approaches to evaluate the reasons for vaccine refusal, and analyze variations in refusal patterns between different demographics and communities.