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Five-year £1.25bn pledge to Gavi is 40% cut in real terms, which experts say will cost lives in developing countries

Exclusive: Scientists also say any reduction in Foreign Office funding for vaccine alliance Gavi would harm UK’s soft power

How did the country get from a 2017 WHO declaration that the disease had been eliminated in Britain to the current crisis?

The rise in Measles Mumps and Rubella cases are linked to lower vaccination rates across England

Rapid rise of global ‘Juno’ variant infections is yet another reminder ‘pandemic is far from over’, warns virologist

Here are the illnesses to be wary of — despite warmer spring weather — and how to avoid them

Spread of virus adds 'extra burden' on NHS amid strikes and rising flu cases

An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the chickenpox vaccine — decades after the shots were made widely available in other countries, including the U.S., Canada and Australia

Youngsters should be offered two doses when they are aged 12 months and 18 months, scientists have said.