Rising global conflicts have impeded vaccination drives for diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, leaving more children without critical immunisations, according to the United ...

As for measles, global coverage improved significantly between 2004 and 2016 but has since slowed. In 2024, the global measles vaccination rate reached 76 percent, up from 71 percent in 2019, yet ...

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain unvaccinated and vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illnesses – meaning ...

The 74 reports childhood vaccination rates have dropped in 1,600 US counties since the pandemic, risking herd immunity amid ...

Another 5.7 million children only have partial protection against preventable diseases, having not received all the recommended doses of certain vaccines.

More than 14 million children around the world have not received a single dose of any vaccine, according to new data from the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

Childhood vaccination rates have plummeted around the world over the last two decades leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases, according to a major study. Although the ...

While childhood vaccination rates stagnated for the rest of the world, they increased in Brazil in 2023.

The nation's new top health official could further erode already falling U.S. vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases, a development that comes as a growing measles outbreak has ...

Falling vaccination rates among children have doctors worried Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school-aged children, with at least 15 ...

After decades of progress, childhood vaccination rates have started stalling or falling around the world in recent years, and Canada is not immune to the trend, suggests a new study from The Lancet.

The biggest fall in vaccination coverage globally was in Sudan, which has been decimated by 15 months of civil war. It saw coverage rates fall to 57% in 2023 from 75% in 2022.