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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control stressed the rise in measles and pertussis cases across the EU

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The UK has seen a recent rise in whooping cough cases.

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A chickenpox (also known as varicella) vaccine sits next to syringes and ready for a student at a free immunization clinic at a Seattle public school on Dec. 30, 2019, Seattle

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Most people catch chickenpox in childhood and tend to have a mild illness, but it can also occur in adults who have not previously been infected and tends to be more severe.

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New cost-effective malaria vaccine gets green light from WHO

This is the second malaria vaccine to be recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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A medical worker prepares to administer a vaccine to 16 month old Yaroslav who is being held my his mother Oksana in Ukraine, 2009.

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Pre-war, Ukraine's immunisation rates were already low due to persistent vaccine scepticism. Combined with the disruption caused by the ongoing invasion, a new measles outbreak is possible this year.

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Wild koala populations are being devastated by chlamydia.

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WHO launches bid to boost childhood vaccination disrupted by COVID

The initiative will boost vaccination in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines where millions missed their jabs in 2021.

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Ansley Dinkler, 4, reacts as a COVID-19 vaccination is administered into her arm at Children's Hospital New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 21, 2022.

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Children's lives threatened by anti-vax myths, says UNICEF

Disruption caused by the pandemic, and subsequent anti-vaccine misinformation, have set global childhood vaccination campaigns back decades, putting millions of children's lives at risk, says UNICEF.

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Local authorities have opened an investigation after families accused a nurse of of faking the administration of vaccines

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'Anti-vaccine' nurse taken to court in Spain for faking childrens' jab

The nurse allegedly told parents their toddlers would be better off walking barefoot on grass than getting a tetanus jab.

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Bees are central to the food pollination system in the US.

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Scientists think vaccinating wildlife could prevent the spillover of viruses from animals into humans.

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Is vaccinating wildlife the solution to preventing the next pandemic?

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A nurse administers a combined vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus vaccine to a 2-year-old while his mother Inna holds him in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2013.

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No one person, country or region can eradicate polio alone – we need to join forces, say the World Health Organization's former and current European regional directors.

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