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Education is a distant dream for children in Makoko, an urban slum in Lagos State. Heavy rains and rising floodwaters have ...

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has reached a 33-year record high, years after it was officially eliminated in the ...

Parents of 1,200 children in the Australian state of Victoria are being advised to get them tested for infectious diseases ...

A key lawmaker and Florida State University leaders on Wednesday touted a new law that includes offering free genetic ...

The Community Vaccine Forum released a study sounding alarms about Utah's decreasing childhood vaccination rates. They argue ...

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Children with hematologic malignancies continue to exhibit increased IPD risk despite an overall decline in pediatric IPD after the introduction of the PCV13 vaccine.

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