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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that children ages 5 to 11 receive the newly authorized COVID-19 booster shot from Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ:BNTX). Following the recommendation, many of the nation's doctors, pharmacies, and other vaccination sites are expected to begin offering the extra doses to the 28 million U.S. children…

Two cases of monkeypox have been detected in Australia, following reported cases in several European countries. Both are in men just returned from Europe.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine expert panel Thursday recommended kids 5-11 get a third shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as a booster five months after their last dose, which once adopted by the agency clears the way for pharmacies and health care providers to begin offering the…

U.S. health advisers are urging a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11

This could become the largest outbreak of monkeypox in countries outside of Africa — but there's no need to panic, an infectious disease expert says.

The count of pediatric cases under investigation has grown since the agency's last update, but most of the increase represents previous cases that are just now being reported.

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

Monkeypox was first discovered in the late 1950s after cropping up among monkeys kept for research. Like smallpox and chickenpox, it is characterized by flu-like symptoms and pus-filled blisters and sores that appear on the skin.  According to the CDC, monkeypox also disappeared for decades with smallpox's eradication in 1980.

MIAMI — No unusual cases of severe hepatitis among children have been confirmed in Florida despite a global rise in cases and an ongoing investigation into what’s causing the outbreak, which has affected more than 500 kids worldwide, including more than 150 in the United States.