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Hum Vaccin Immunother
December 2024
Preventive Medicine, Second Cluster, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The controversy surrounding the safety of coronavirus disease-19 vaccinations is part of a larger historical backdrop of ongoing discussions regarding vaccine safety that have spanned several decades. The historical disputes around measles, mumps, rubella, and influenza highlight the recurring pattern in which public doubt is fueled by false information and personal stories. A 2024 multinational study in the journal presented preexisting safety indicators for myocarditis, pericarditis, Guillain - Barré syndrome, and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis.
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December 2025
Outcomes Research, Merck & Co. Inc ., Rahway, NJ, USA.
Background: Pharmacies can increase access to vaccines. This study aimed to describe trends in the proportion of adolescent and adult vaccinations administered in pharmacies in the United States from 2018 to 2024.
Research Design And Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of medical and pharmacy claims from commercial health insurance enrollees.
Przegl Epidemiol
December 2024
Zakład Epidemiologii Chorób Zakaźnych i Nadzoru, Narodowy Instytut Zdrowia Publicznego PZH - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy.
Background: Mumps, also known as Sudden parotitis, is a viral disease whose main source of infection is the sick/infected person. It posed a serious public health threat in Poland before the introduction of mandatory vaccination. In 2003, Poland introduced the Immunization Program, which included a two-dose vaccination against mumps as part of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine for all children.
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January 2025
Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Background: India has made exceptional advances in child immunisation, but subnational inequities in vaccination coverage impede attainment of key programmatic goals. Our study provides an up-to-date national portrait of local variations in child vaccination using a comprehensive set of indicators relevant to routine immunisation.
Methods: Indicators representing unvaccinated (zero-dose) children, incomplete basic immunisation, and vulnerability to measles and polio, were constructed from India's 2019-2021 National Family Health Survey.
Commun Dis Intell (2018)
November 2024
Hunter New England Population Health, Hunter New England Local Health District, NSW, Australia; School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
This editorial focuses on the instructive value of carefully investigated measles outbreaks with reference to the outbreak report, also published today in CDI (doi: /10.33321/cdi.2024.
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