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When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines without a medical reason, vaccination rates among kindergartners increased substantially. That’s the key finding from our new study published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics.

Epidemiologist Dr. Seth Berkley spoke to Live Science about the importance of vaccine equity and the obstacles undermining it, as well as the political challenges to vaccines being raised in the U.S.

Two South Carolina schools forced to tell 153 kids to stay home for 21 days to allow for virus’s transmission period to expire in order to protect their peers and teachers

In school districts and charter networks with the most vaccine delinquencies, as many as 44% of kindergarteners were not complying with state requirements. The post More Texas kindergarteners coming to school without measles vaccination proof or exemptions appeared first on The Texas Tribune.

Hundreds of the fired CDC workers may be brought back, but it’s unclear when they’ll return to work

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

RFK Jr. faces the end of his political career and marriage as his anti-vax crusade sparks a measles outbreak and angers Trump. Insiders say he's about to be sacked.

More than three-quarters of U.S. counties and jurisdictions are experiencing declines in childhood vaccination rates, a trend that began in 2019, according to a September 2025 NBC News–Stanford University investigation. The report also found a “large swath” of the U.S. no longer has the “basic, ground-level immunity” needed to stop…

Health workers in Sumenep, Indonesia, are delivering measles vaccines to curb an outbreak on Madura Island, which has persisted for nine months. Over 2,600 children have been infected this year, and 20 have died.