Within one to two weeks, the cough becomes more intense — harsh, violent fits that leave you gasping for air. Sometimes, a ...

Legislative changes in states like Maine and Colorado aim to protect vaccine access and adapt to federal policy shifts ...

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Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

It’s easy to forget how deadly whooping cough, measles, rubella, and polio once were—but for families who lost loved ones, ...