Any upsurge in measles is of real concern, but in settings aggravated by poor living conditions and malnutrition, it can be disastrous. It can affect adults, but young children are at particular risk.
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Canada is seeing a surge in measles cases. Find out what measles is, why it’s returning to Canada, and how people can protect themselves and others.
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the risk that rising outbreaks pose to everyone.
On the fourth anniversary of New Zealand’s first COVID case it’s clear this is not a normal pandemic. Despite fatigue and indifference, New Zealand must heed the evidence and improve its response.
Though the outbreaks overseas are bigger, a number of cases have also been detected in Australia so far this year.
Herd immunity to measles is waning due to vaccine hesitancy over MMR. Adult MMR is one way to help get it back up again.
Seven children at a nursery in Stoke-on-Trent have caught measles. But other parts of the UK are at risk too.
Projections from the UKHSA suggest London could see a measles outbreak totalling 40,000 to 160,000 cases at current vaccination levels.
This whirlwind tour of social history describes how infectious diseases have shaped humanity at every stage. It suggests reducing inequality will give us our best chance of surviving future plagues.
Measles is an extremely contagious disease but, thanks to immunisation, is now rare in Australia.
Many children have missed a measles vaccine dose since the start of the COVID pandemic.
The pandemic has disrupted national immunisation programmes. As a result, the African continent is seeing more outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases.
Authorities have been warned about five virus families that could cause future pandemics. Here are snapshots of the diseases each can cause and why we should be worried.
The risk of serious disease outbreaks among NZ children is now very real. Some childhood immunisation rates have dropped from about 80% in early 2020 to 67% by June 2022, and as low as 45% for Māori.
The latest report from the WHO and Unicef found cases have increased nearly 80% worldwide.
Public health experts know that schools are likely sites for the spread of disease, and laws tying school attendance to vaccination go back to the 1800s.
A growing body of research shows that nutrition, sleep, exercise and a host of other lifestyle choices can help optimize the immune system. But they are no substitute for life-saving vaccines.
A critical care doctor brings a frontlines perspective to the frustration of dealing firsthand with vaccine hesitancy and discusses the limitations of science and medicine.
America’s founders accepted the reality of human selfishness. But, they also said people were capable of thinking for the good of the whole, which is necessary for a free society.
The effects of Ontario’s compulsory school immunization show there are advantages and disadvantages of requiring vaccination.
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Global Health, Danish Institute for Advanced Study, University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Paediatrician, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance; Clinical Lecturer, Children's Hospital Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Senior research fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University
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Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Disability Studies, Georgetown University
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Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Infectious Diseases Physician, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University and, The University of Queensland
