Parents PACK Newsletter

Parents PACK Newsletter

Parents PACK is a monthly e-newsletter for anyone who wants information about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases. Each issue provides timely vaccine information, a feature article, vaccine questions and answers, information about immunizations around the world and a trivia question.

Current issue of Parents PACK

Check out the January 2026 issue: 

Feature Article

Should I Worry about Possible U.S. Loss of Measles Elimination Status?

Read the article.

Feature Video

Preventing cancers caused by HPV:

News & Notes

  • Harvey, the friendly dog, helps young children be healthy   
  • “When the Science Changes: The Peanut Allergy Story”
  • “Exploring Epidemiology: Early Epidemiology”  

Explore each topic.

"Just the Vax" Trivia Corner

In Africa, many families do not name their children until the threat of what vaccine-preventable disease has passed?  

Find out.

Past issues of Parents PACK newsletter

Read 2026 issues online

  • January | PDF
    Should I Worry about Possible U.S. Loss of Measles Elimination Status? 

Read 2025 issues online

  • November | PDF
    Of clinical trials, package inserts and safe vaccines: Addressing some things you may have heard
  • October | PDF
    A vaccine dictionary
  • July | PDF
    9,000 Reasons for routine childhood hepatitis B vaccination
  • June | PDF
    What we know and how we feel: Can you recognize the difference? Try it!
  • April | PDF
    Have you wondered? Vaccine schedule edition
  • March | PDF
    4 vaccine considerations for those with chronic medical conditions, including disabilities
  • February | PDF
    Making vaccine decisions during pregnancy: What to know
  • January | PDF
    Getting accurate information in an age of misinformation

For other 2025 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2024 issues online

  • November | PDF
    Going to the source: Finding out more about a message that includes science
  • October | PDF
    What’s in vaccines and why?
  • June | PDF
    Do vaccines cause chronic diseases?
  • April | PDF
    Are mRNA vaccines a type of gene therapy?

For other 2024 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2023 issues online

  • April | PDF
    How many trivia questions about vaccine ingredients can you answer?

For other 2023 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2022 issues online

  • May | PDF
    No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part III
  • April | PDF
    No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part II
  • March | PDF
    No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part I

For other 2022 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

Read 2021 issues online

For other 2021 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.

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