US EditionGlobal vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases
- A new global analysis published Tuesday in The Lancet reports that childhood vaccination rates have stalled and reversed in some regions since 2010.
- This slowdown follows longstanding inequalities between wealthier and poorer countries worsened by COVID-19 disruptions and cuts to international aid budgets.
- The study finds that in 2023, 15.7 million children were unvaccinated, mainly in eight countries, while measles cases in the Americas spiked elevenfold this year compared to 2024.
- Dr. Jonathan Mosser highlighted that persistent inequalities, COVID-19, and vaccine misinformation have caused faltering immunization, increasing risks of measles, polio, and diphtheria outbreaks.
- Experts call for stronger primary healthcare, combating misinformation, and renewed investment to close immunization gaps and prevent deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Global Vaccination Efforts Stall, Leaving Millions of Children Vulnerable
(MedPage Today) -- Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, and other diseases that can be easily prevented. Protection from measles in particular dropped in 100...
This mostly affects poorer countries, but the EU is not completely safe either.
For decades, vaccinations in children have progressed. However, the vaccination rate has been stagnating for some years.
The millenary struggle of the human being against diseases, especially in children, is suffering alarming setbacks all over the world. This is what indicates a study with data from about 200 countries (that is, practically the whole planet) of the medical journal The Lancet. Published this Tuesday, the document alerts the paralysis and even the reduction of infant immunization coverage, especially in developing areas, but also in some twenty dev…
Possible rise in vaccine preventable diseases in the county
EAU CLAIRE — The City of Eau Claire Communicable Disease Tracking Dashboard has shown an increasingly drastic rise in vaccine-preventable disease numbers in Eau Claire County, but multiple factors in data collection and people’s behavior may be leading this data…
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