Vaccines News & Updates

June 10, 2025 — The FDA has approved clesrovimab -- sold as Enflonsia -- a new shot to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in babies during their first RSV season, which typically lasts from fall through spring.

May 30, 2025 — The FDA has approved MenQuadfi as the first-ever meningococcal vaccine for babies as young as 6 weeks old. It protects against invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by meningococcal bacteria (Neisseria meningitidis) strains A, C, W, and Y.

May 29, 2025 — Experts say international travel could make the measles situation in the U.S. worse. If you’re planning a trip, there are a few simple ways to help keep you and your family safe.

March 12, 2025 — As the measles outbreak in the U.S. spreads, experts fear that other preventable diseases, including polio, rubella, and mumps, could return. Here’s what you can do to stay safe.

March 6, 2025 — Getting vaccinated during pregnancy protects your newborn from severe infection during the first critical months of life. Here’s how.

March 3, 2025 — Amid a Texas measles outbreak that has reached just under 150 documented cases, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on all parents to discuss measles vaccination with their children’s health care providers.

February 18, 2025 — The FDA has approved Penmenvy, a new 5-in-1 shot to protect against meningococcal infections or invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in people ages 10 to 25 years.

December 12, 2024 — The big drop in child flu vaccination rates last year appears to not be a blip. Just 37% of kids have gotten flu shots this year, according to new CDC data.

October 3, 2024 — More children started kindergarten last year without having first received recommended vaccines for highly contagious and dangerous diseases, moving the nation even further away from vaccination rates experts say are needed for herd immunity.

February 23, 2024 — The recent growth in measles cases in the United States and the world is linked to declining vaccination rates for children, medical experts say.

November 22, 2023 — Children whose parents received a reminder notification that their child was due for vaccination against human papillomavirus were 56% more likely to get the potentially life-saving medicine, a new study shows.

November 10, 2023 — The CDC said 3% of children starting kindergarten in the 2022-2023 school year received an exemption from one of the four key vaccines—the highest exemption rate ever reported in the United States.

October 26, 2023 — A new meningococcal vaccine that better protects against the rare but potentially deadly disease will soon be available.

September 26, 2023 — Doctors and the CDC recommend everyone over 6 months get the new COVID-19 vaccine as fears of complications ease.

August 4, 2023 — The CDC is recommending that all babies younger than 8 months get a shot this fall or winter to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

July 6, 2023 — The CDC is cutting money for state childhood vaccination programs, according to an agency email. The cut comes from a federal immunization grant, given in the last year, that supports childhood vaccines.

March 6, 2023 — A discredited 1998 study that falsely proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism is still having a negative effect on child vaccination rates in the United States and the United Kingdom more than two decades later, medical experts say.

January 12, 2023 — For the second straight year, the percentage of schoolchildren immunized against measles fell below a critical rate necessary to prevent the virus from spreading in the community, federal health officials say.