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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Disease fears as Argentina child vaccination rates hit historic lows

While coverage has been slipping since 2015, public health specialists say the speed and scale of the drop in 2024 is without precedent a collapse deepened by Javier Milei's sweeping austerity programme, which has slashed the national health budget and strained the outreach networks that once underpinned Argentina's vaccination successes. The decline is serious. Coverage continues to fall. It has never been this low,
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fromNature
6 days ago

Measles makes a comeback: four charts show where and how

Canada lost measles-free status after a dramatic 2025 surge; the United States risks losing measles-elimination status if transmission continues into January 2026.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Vaccination plea after baby's 'terrifying' measles

Nowhere in the north-east of England and Cumbria has the childhood measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination rate of 95% needed to achieve the "herd immunity" at which point disease does not spread, latest figures show.
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fromScary Mommy
4 months ago

Vaccine Efforts Have Slowed Or Reversed Over The Past 15 Years: Study

The Expanded Programme on Immunization has successfully increased global vaccination rates, but recent trends show worrying signs of stagnation and decline in coverage.
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