Mar 16 Watch Whooping Cough Returns to California After Decades of Decline Joanne Faryon of KPBS in San Diego reports on the resurgence of whooping cough in California after decades of the disease's decline. Continue watching
Jan 18 H1N1 Gives Clues to Universal Flu Vaccine By Talea Miller Researchers found that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza produced antibodies that provide protection from several flu strains. Continue reading
Dec 27 Shortage of Cholera Vaccine an Obstacle in Haiti Response By Talea Miller Health experts are calling for the creation of a cholera vaccine stockpile so the vaccine can be deployed in future cholera outbreaks, like the one still spreading in Haiti. Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch Supreme Court Weighs Whether Vaccine Makers Can Be Sued Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal talks about Supreme Court arguments on whether drug companies that make vaccines can be sued. Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Aid Groups in Haiti Launch Massive Vaccination Effort With conditions on the ground ripe for a disease outbreak, aid groups in Haiti have launched a campaign to vaccinate more than 100,000 people against measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Emma Murphy of ITN reports. Continue watching
Feb 04 Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link By Talea Miller This week, the British medical journal the Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that helped set off the debate over the safety of vaccines and whether they may be connected to later diagnoses of autism in children. Continue reading
Jan 07 H1N1 Vaccine Reaching Poorer Nations as Flu Fears Continue to Wane By Talea Miller Developing nations will begin receiving donated H1N1 vaccine Thursday, just as the U.S. shortage is waning and some European nations find themselves with more vaccine than they can handle. Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch With H1N1 Vaccine Now Abundant, Flu Fears Ease With the H1N1 vaccine no longer in short supply, the crowds that once lined clinics nationwide are now gone. But has the rush to get vaccinated slowed too soon? Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Dec 03 H1N1 Hitting Children Hard in Mexico City By Talea Miller In Mexico City, where schools and businesses were shuttered during the first H1N1 outbreak last spring, the initial fear surrounding the virus has lifted, but health officials warn that young children are being unexpectedly hard hit this flu season. Continue reading
Nov 09 U.S. Passes on Unlicensed H1N1 Vaccine Boosters, Despite Shortage U.S. health officials are dealing with shortages and production delays of H1N1 vaccine, but stand by the choice not to opt for vaccine boosters, called adjuvants, that could stretch supply of H1N1 vaccine, but are not licensed in the United… Continue reading