Mariba, a 32-year-old resident of —a suburb of Juba—has joined the rest of her community in the official celebration of African Vaccination Week 2025 at a nearby Kator Primary Health Care Centre in ...

India's Universal Immunisation Programme targets 27 million infants and 30 million pregnant women each year. Here's how it's ...

DTaP and Tdap are combination vaccines that protect against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough. DTaP is given to infants and young children, whereas Tdap is administered to anyone above the ...

The vaccine is to combine GSK’s injectable polio vaccine (IPV) and Biological E’s pentavalent vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (whole cell pertussis), hepatitis B, and ...

A previously healthy five-year-old boy presented to the paediatric emergency department with marked swelling, redness and warmth in the left arm (Figure 1), that occurred within 48 hours of receiving ...

Michigan's top doctor warns parents about heartbreaking consequences of vaccine-preventable illnesses like measles and ...

Study design In the setting of well-baby clinics we recruited a community-based sample of full-term born infants who were already formula fed by the choice of the parents (n=48, aged 4–10 weeks) and ...

Three of these vaccines (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis ... and the polio vaccine shot (IPV) replaced the oral polio vaccine. Then, in 2000, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) was ...

Immune responses to most of the vaccine antigens assessed in these studies, including diphtheria, tetanus, Hib, polio and HBV, were consistently found not to be impacted by MenACWY-CRM ...

Whooping cough is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. This highly contagious infection is characterized by severe coughing fits that often result in a 'whoop' sound when the individual gasps ...