May is Hepatitis Awareness Month, and a local health department is educating the public on what they say is a silent disease.

HEALTH chiefs have unveiled “significant” changes to the childhood vaccination schedule following a sharp rise in cases of a ...

Unfortunately, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan account for the highest doses of missed doses or ZD.

In a very long-term follow-up cohort from childhood to adulthood in Taiwan, the scientists recruited 413 chronic HBV-infected patients who were followed from childhood to adulthood for a total of ...

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has simplified the process for obtaining a Child Registration Certificate (CRC), commonly known as the B-Form, making it easier and more ...

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Public health experts urge people planning to visit areas with larger infectious disease outbreaks to check their vaccination status, which may require locating their childhood immunization records.

The highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease inflames the liver and has seen rising outbreaks among men who have sex with men A new study from Rutgers School of Public Health researchers ...

Toronto Public Health has started to issue suspensions to some of the thousands of Toronto high school students whose records aren’t up to date on required vaccinations. In a statement ...

The B.C. River Forecast Centre says the province's snowpack was around 79 per cent of normal levels on April 1, with fears of drought continuing into the spring season. B.C. has recorded a below ...

HBV=hepatitis B virus. HBVDR=HBV drug resistance ... can also lead to changes in the overlapping surface antigen (HBsAg), potentially affecting vaccine efficacy. These overlapping sites have been ...