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The UK is no longer offering COVID vaccines to pregnant women – here’s why that might be a bad idea

Until now, COVID vaccines have been available to pregnant women as part of the twice-yearly booster programme, but this offer is being withdrawn.

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WHO Approves First Mpox Vaccine For Children In Africa

WHO authorizes first mpox vaccine for children to combat outbreaks in Africa, aiming to protect vulnerable populations. Efforts include immunizing thousand...

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The UN authorizes the 1st mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo

The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children

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CDC director looks to future of public health with worry - Roll Call

With two months left in her tenure, CDC Director Mandy Cohen is trying to make the case for her agency and for public health in America.

Roll Call

RFK Jr. once said Covid-19 pandemic ‘feels very planned to me’

Kennedy once suggested COVID was part of a ‘biosecurity agenda that will enslave the entire human race and plunge us into a dystopian nightmare’

The Independent UK

Caroline Kennedy Says Her Family 'United' Against Cousin RFK Jr.'s 'Dangerous' Views on Health

Caroline Kennedy sharply criticized her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines, calling them "dangerous" and contrary to the Kennedy family's.

Latin Times

Ex-CDC acting director calls RFK Jr’s false vaccine theories ‘cruel’

Richard Besser criticizes Trump’s health secretary pick, and says falsely linking vaccines to autism is a ‘cruel thing to do’

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The latest COVID booster will soon be available. Should I get one? Am I eligible?

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has recently approved a new COVID booster. The shot was developed by Pfizer and targets the JN.1 sub-variant of Omicron.

The Conversation

The appointment of Robert F Kennedy has horrified public health experts. Here are his three most dangerous ideas

He says his goal is to “Make America healthy again”. But behind the laudable slogan there’s a morass of conspiracy theories, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

The Guardian - UK

Red squirrels ‘to vanish from England’ unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded

Conservation group warns species threatened by exploding populations of grey squirrels who carry lethal virus

The Guardian - UK

Cases of highly infectious and preventable measles surged across the globe by 20 percent last year

The rise of infections was tied to inadequate vaccination rates in children

The Independent UK

How controversial is Trump’s pick of RFK Jr as US health secretary?

More about Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s health secretary pick who is sceptical of vaccines, the FDA and fluoride.

Al Jazeera

RFK Jr could have disastrous global impact on public health, experts fear

Concerns anti-vaccine pick for US health secretary could pursue ‘anti-science positions’ on life-saving interventions

The Guardian - UK

Even if RFK Jr. fires everyone at the FDA, it won’t matter because he doesn’t know anyone with the ‘technical expertise’ to alter the rules, former chief counsel says

Donald Trump has tapped vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

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RFK Jr. provokes "horror" among doctors

Kennedy has already been linked to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa after he pushed anti-vax falsehoods

Evening Standard

RFK Jr: London scientists 'alarmed' by Trump's pick for Health Secretary

The former independent candidate has vowed to tackle the obesity crisis but has spread debunked conspiracy theories

International Business Times

Vaccine Maker Stocks Fall After RFK Jr. Nominated To Lead Health Agency

Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skeptic and has falsely claimed they cause autism.

Latin Times

Science-Denying' RFK Jr. Shouldn't Be Let Into HHS Building, Let Alone Run It, Health Watchdog Warns

Top Public Citizen officials heavily criticized Trump's decision to nominate the vaccine skeptic to lead the Department of Human and Health Services

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The Guardian - UK

Pharma shares hit as Trump picks RFK Jr to lead health department

Choice of vaccine critic knocks some of world’s biggest drugmakers including Moderna, AstraZeneca and GSK

Medical Daily

Measles Resurges As Vaccination Declines, Most Deaths Among Unvaccinated Young Children: WHO, CDC

Around 10.3 million cases were reported in 2023, marking an alarming 20% increase from the previous year.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: concern over RFK Jr as Trump’s health pick; Myer cancels Christmas window launch; and Australians to log their farts

Speculation that RFK Jr, a known vaccine denier, may be given influence over children’s health in the US

Salon

Congress reacts to RFK Jr. nomination

The vaccine skeptic's nomination is uncertain, though some Senate Republicans lined up to praise him and Trump

The Guardian - US

RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination

Nominee for health secretary decried as ‘vaccine denier and tin foil hat conspiracy theorist … this is going to cost lives’

The Guardian - US

Who is RFK Jr and what are his likely top priorities?

Trump’s nominee to oversee key US health agencies is a vaccine denier and experts predict the return of diseases ‘we have controlled for decades’

The Independent UK

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a long record of promoting anti-vaccine views

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F

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