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Vodcast: Here's What We Know – World Polio Day

October 23, 2025

In this episode of Kids Health Cast, Dr. Hannah Wunsch gives a deep dive into the public health issue of polio, including its history and resurgence worldwide.

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Here's What We Know: Hepatitis B Is a Vaccine-Preventable Disease

October 21, 2025

The HBV vaccine is highly effective, with a protective antibody response achieved more than 90 percent of the time in adults and 95 percent in infants, plus the protection is long-term.

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Here's What We Know: Vaccines for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

October 7, 2025

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently recommends a single dose of Moderna’s RSV vaccine for adults 75 years and older, and for adults 50 to 74 years old who have underlying conditions that can increase their risk for severe disease. These include chronic lung or cardiac diseases, severe obesity or a severely compromised immune system, among others.

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Here’s What We Know: The Impact of mRNA Vaccines

September 25, 2025

mRNA is a platform that can be used to create vaccines against a wide variety of diseases. One of the great advantages of the platform is that a vaccine can be quickly manufactured and scaled up, no matter which virus is being targeted.

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Here‘s What We Know: How Vaccines Help Prevent Disease

September 23, 2025

From eradicating deadly diseases to preventing seasonal outbreaks, vaccines continue to protect individuals and strengthen communities.

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Here’s What We Know: Addressing Questions and Concerns Around Thimerosal

September 4, 2025

In what follows, Dr. Karen Acker, an assistant attending pediatrician with expertise in infectious diseases and assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at AVÑо¿Ëù, recounts the history of its use, its removal from certain childhood vaccines in 2001 and how that removal has had the unintended effect of intensifying public concerns around its safety.

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The Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in NYC

August 25, 2025

This August, Legionnaires’ disease has claimed several lives and sickened more than a hundred people across Central Harlem.

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Here’s What We Know: Vaccines for Pregnant and Expectant Adults

August 19, 2025

Find out what we know so far about vaccines during pregnancy. Learn what vaccines you need and why they’re important when you’re expecting a new addition.

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Here’s What We Know: Vaccine Recommendations by Age Group

August 6, 2025

Learn what we know about vaccine recommendations by age group. From birth to mid-life and beyond, here are the vaccines you need.

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Here’s What We Know: Required Vaccinations for Back to School

July 30, 2025

Get your kids ready for school. Find out what vaccines are required for the upcoming school year to ensure a healthy and safe return to class.