Vaccines

The disease was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, but outbreaks have increased in recent years as vaccine skepticism rises.

A proposed rule would allow people to receive the shot at pharmacies. The Board of Pharmacy is accepting public comments through Oct. 8.

Florida's Surgeon General has called to end all vaccine mandates. Vaccine hesitancy is growing, and pediatricians say they are feeling the strain of tackling the mistrust.

A state plan would remove mandates on schoolchildren receiving shots for chickenpox, hepatitis B, Hib and pneumococcal disease. Comments can be made through Sept. 14.

Two "measles-associated" deaths were reported by Pennsylvania health authorities this week in Lancaster County, the first such deaths so far this year in the U.S.

The health department is proposing a rule to remove hepatitis B, chickenpox, Hib, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine mandates for school attendance.

The vice president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics knows what happens when the vaccination rate dips below herd immunity.

Pediatricians are pushing back on an executive order calling for changes to the childhood vaccination schedule.

Despite a call to end vaccine mandates in Florida, nothing has happened on a policy level. Now, pediatricians are seeing vaccine hesitancy growing.

James Uthmeier says his office will look into the former chief medical adviser to the president, who pleaded the Fifth Amendment during testimony in Washington about the COVID-19 pandemic.