As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory: The virus is being caused by the vaccine itself.

West Virginia senators voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies Friday by greenlighting an exemption for families who say mandated inoculations conflict with their religious or philosophical beliefs.

Lab tests suggest a strain of the flu virus circulating this season may not be "well-recognized" by the flu vaccine.

"It's really exciting, because when we talk about curing cancer, it's not really a single monolithic disease," he added. "There are probably hundreds of different targets for ever

A mass polio vaccination campaign in children is set to continue in Gaza later this week after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

A veterinary pharmaceutical company said they have received a conditional license for a bird flu vaccine to be used on chickens, potentially marking the first step toward mitigating a disease that has affected more than 150 million birds in the United States since 2022.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that would strip schools of federal aid if they mandate COVID vaccines, a pool report said -- a largely symbolic move considering that no states currently require them.

A video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his Senate confirmation hearing repeating a misleading narrative that Black people should be put on a different vaccination schedule on the basis of their race has been widely shared on social media.

The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent lawyer and vocal vaccine critic, as the nation's health secretary, controlling $1.7 trillion in spending for vaccines,

Of the 900 Californians who have succumbed to influenza this season, 15 were children, according to state public health data.

Health care providers say that hesitation and outright resistance to vaccines have become disturbingly common even in Massachusetts, a state that was at the forefront of developing and distributing COVID shots.