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The Shingles Vaccine May Help Delay Dementia
GSK Plc’s shingles vaccine was linked to a longer delay in dementia onset than a competing shot, a finding that…
MMR, flu, COVID: Child vaccination rates faltering post-pandemic
Routine vaccination rates for kindergarteners haven’t rebounded since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to KFF. At the same time, exemptions from school vaccination requirements…
With the U.S. bird flu outbreak uncontained, scientists see growing risks
For nearly four months, the spread of bird flu in the nation’s dairy cattle has stoked fears that, if left…
Scientists Find COVID-19 Vaccine Lowers Risk of Long COVID by 72%
The COVID summer wave is in full swing. With cases rising and new variants continuing to pop up, it’s normal to wonder about your…
Whooping Cough Is on the Rise, Returning to Pre-Pandemic Trends
Reported cases of whooping cough are rising The number of people reported with whooping cough, a bacterial respiratory illness, has been…
Hispanic Chamber launches ‘One School, One Vaccine’
It’s almost time for the kids to head back to class! The Colorado Springs Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has a plan to…
Headed Back to School in 2024: An Update on Children’s Routine Vaccination…
Routine vaccination rates for kindergarten children ticked down during the COVID-19 pandemic and have yet to rebound while exemptions from school vaccination…
College Students Most Affected by Meningitis B Know Strikingly Little About It
Meningococcal meningitis can strike healthy individuals unexpectedly and result in the death of one in 10 infected people, sometimes causing…
What the 9 human cases of bird flu in the U.S. so…
Four poultry workers in Colorado who recently contracted bird flu bring the total of human cases in the U.S. to at least…
Vaccines Significantly Reduce the Risk of Long Covid, Study Finds
A large new study provides some of the strongest evidence yet that vaccines reduce the risk of developing long Covid. Scientists looked…
Six Colorado workers contracted bird flu, the most human cases in a…
Bird flu has infected six farmworkers in Colorado this month — the most in any state — as health officials…
1 in 10 people infected during pregnancy develop long covid, study finds
Nearly 1 in 10 people infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy developed long covid, according to a study published Thursday in the…
Why Aren’t More Boys Getting HPV Vaccines?
When his nine-year-old son went to a routine doctor’s appointment a few years ago, Nosayaba Osazuwa-Peters, Ph.D., expected that he would…
Long COVID is showing up in Colorado death data, even as COVID-19…
COVID-19 is no longer in the top 10 reasons why Coloradans die, according to the state’s annual death data, but…
Bird flu seems to be slowly mutating to better infect humans. Experts…
In late March, a worker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas developed a case of pink eye. He eventually tested…