Pneumococcal disease is a serious infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, also known as Pneumococcus.

According to Nevada data, 5% of Washoe County kindergarten students do not have the MMR vaccine, the inoculation required of all school-aged children that protects against measles, mumps and rubella.

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The best way to defend against measles is to get the measles vaccine. The vaccine is usually given alongside the rubella and mumps vaccine, effectively naming it the MMR vaccine. It is recommended ...

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Vaccine manufacturers would have to waive indemnity from lawsuits for injuries stemming from vaccines under a bill advancing in the Iowa Senate. Sen. Doug Campbell, R-Mason City, at a subcommittee ...

Devastated because an otherwise healthy child succumbed to an illness that one of our safest and most effective vaccines can prevent. And infuriated because the path from the elimination of ...

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill Monday banning the administration of mRNA vaccines. The bill, Senate File 360, would outlaw any person in the state of Iowa from administering an mRNA and would impose ...

Raynard Covarrubio fills a syringe with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at a Lubbock Public Health Department clinic on Saturday in Lubbock, Texas. (Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images) By Donald G.

The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is considered highly effective. Some people may still get measles after being fully vaccinated—doctors explain how and why this might happen ...