Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in the News
"Forgetting to Remember: Lessons from a Vaccine Lost"
Forgetting to Remember – Lessons from a Vaccine Lost explores how easy it is to lose a vaccine and the consequences that follow. After the U.S. military balked at supporting upgrades to equipment and facilities where the adenovirus vaccine was produced, production was stopped. Almost immediately, recruits started becoming ill with adenovirus. After reevaluating their need to prevent adenovirus through vaccination, it took 10 years to reintroduce a vaccine. During that time, countless military recruits fell ill, and eight died. This cautionary tale offers an opportunity to consider what will happen if routinely recommended childhood vaccines suffer the same fate.
June 2026: 3 Takeaways from Recent Ebola and Hantavirus Headlines
Filling in for Dr. Offit, Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses three takeaways from the recent Ebola and hantavirus headlines. She explains that how these events have been handled can inform our collective understanding of the current public health crisis, describing loss of institutional expertise coupled with lack of humility for learning from experts in relevant fields, clues based on how affected U.S. citizens are being treated, and the lack of borders when it comes to infectious diseases. She points out that global health is local health and that means that we must work with other countries to address the real enemy — the pathogens.
- Ebola: video | podcast | related webpage
- Hantavirus
- Experts convened by WHO advise on candidate treatments and vaccines for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus
- WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States
Vaccine schedule resources
- Science Behind the Vaccine Schedule (webpage)
- Science-based vaccine recommendations (webpage)
- Global Immunization: Controlling the Spread of Disease (webpage)
- Vaccines & Diseases (webpages)
- Recommended Immunization Schedule: What You Should Know (Q&A) – English | Spanish | Japanese (PDF)
- When Individual Doctors Make Their Own Schedules (Q&A) (PDF)
- VEC Vaccine Notes (videos and podcasts)
- CHOP’s Response to Recommended Changes to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule (webpage)
- January 2026: Why the recent CDC changes to the vaccine schedule don’t make sense (video)
Influenza resources
- Influenza - VEC Vaccine Notes: video | podcast | webpage
- Influenza: What You Should Know Q&A: English | Spanish | Japanese (PDF)
- Influenza infographic: English | Spanish (PDF)
- Flu Vaccine: What’s in the Vial? webpage and infographic: English | Spanish (PDF)
- Ingredients in Influenza Vaccines (webpage)
- Influenza playlist (video)
- Parents PACK Personal Stories – Influenza (webpage)
- Vaccines and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (webpage)
Measles resources
In 2025, there were 2,213 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. As of Feb. 27, 2026, there have been 1,194 confirmed cases.
For more information related to measles, see these resources:
- Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR): video | podcast | related webpage
- Measles, Mumps & Rubella (infographic): PDF (English | Spanish) | PNG
- Measles: What You Should Know (Q&A): English | Spanish
- Rash Information, includes measles image and information (webpage)
- Parents PACK Personal Stories – Measles (webpage)
- Measles infections, outbreaks & vaccines playlist (17 videos)
- May 2025: Measles — How did we get here, and how bad is this? (video)
- October 2025 – Does Splitting MMR Into 3 Vaccines Serve Public Health? (video)
Autism & vaccines resources
- ACOG’s announcement (webpage)
- Vaccines and Autism (webpage)
- Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR): The Diseases & Vaccines (See, “Does the MMR vaccine cause autism?”) (webpage)
- Safety of Tylenol (Acetaminophen) for Children and in Pregnancy: Frequently Asked Questions (webpage)
- Autism therapy and intervention (Autism Speaks) (webpage)
- Autism Science Foundation (webpage)
- Center for Autism Research (webpage)
- Vaccines & Autism Q&A: English | Spanish (PDF)
- The Truth about Autism and Vaccines (PDF)
- Pediatricians Discuss Vaccines, Pregnancy, Development & Autism (video)
- Do Vaccines Cause Autism? (video)
- November 2025 — 25 Years of Magic Medicines for Autism: Next Up, Leucovorin (video)
- December 2025: Vaccines don't cause autism. And I can't fly (without a plane). (video)
- February 2025: Tylenol During Pregnancy Does Not Cause Autism (video)
Hepatitis B vaccine resources
- Hepatitis B: The Disease and Vaccines (webpage)
- Hepatitis B (infographic): English | Spanish
- 9,000 Reasons for Routine Childhood Hepatitis B Vaccination (article): webpage | PDF
- Hepatitis B: What you should know (Q&A): English | Spanish | Japanese
- Hilleman: Hepatitis B Segment (film clip)
- How does hepatitis B combat the immune system (animation)
- Using genetic engineering to make vaccines (animation)
- October 2025 – Hepatitis B Vaccine Birth Dose (video)
Last updated: June 4, 2026