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The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a simplified approach for future vaccination efforts, allowing most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus.

The only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial has failed, researchers announced Wednesday, dealing a significant blow to the effort to control the global HIV epidemic and adding to a decadeslong roster of failed attempts.

Even before he was carried off the field, posts amassing millions of views began circulating online claiming without evidence that complications from COVID-19 vaccines caused his health emergency.

New York saw its first dip in new flu cases for the first time in weeks, a bit of good news amid the “tridemic” threat of influenza, RSV and COVID-19. Pediatric deaths, tragically, are up. State health officials are confirming at least five pediatric deaths linked to the flu so far this season in New York’s most recent weekly...

A triple threat of overlapping illnesses — COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza — is overwhelming healthcare systems and leaving Americans sick this holiday season. Medical experts say the so-called “tridemic” is partially fueled by the early flu season, while COVID variants continue circulating. Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is a common cold-like illness that peaks in late December,…

A triple threat of coinciding illnesses COVID, RSV, and flu is sweeping the nation during the holidays. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino chats with top New York and New Jersey-based doctors on the spreading “tridemic.”

More people wearing masks as the flu, Covid-19 and RSV pose major health threats. Lynda Baquero reports.

A team of researchers from the University of Houston said that they have created a potential fentanyl vaccine, according to a new study. See what they found and how it works.

About 8% of wastewater samples tested in a 13-county area around New York City in recent months came back positive for polio, the CDC said Friday, indicating sustained community transmission of the virus in the region. The testing follows the discovery of a case of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated Rockland County man this summer. Thus far, he is the…

The New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan encouraged people to continue getting vaccinated to keep numbers down, Erica Byfield reports.

New York state health officials sounded a new alarm Thursday, warning that flu is already widespread across the Big Apple and saying it likely will only intensify, thanks to the compounding factor of the COVID pandemic. That “widespread” determination comes when more than half of the state’s 62 counties report lab-confirmed cases — and New York is well above that…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new recommendations for flu shots for people 65 and older.

A new vaccination effort starts Monday, and New Yorkers might be surprised to hear its not aimed at humans. Raccoons in New York City are the latest focus of vaccines, this time in an effort to protect the creatures from rabies, the city announced. The Health Department said small, brown-colored baits would be scattered in wooded areas of Manhattan, Queens…

Polio has now been found in New York City wastewater samples, suggesting the virus is spreading, Melissa Colorado reports.

New York City is set to open another 23,000 monkeypox vaccine appointments later Thursday, and while all-too-familiar technical glitches that impaired the rollout early on appear resolved, the outbreak continues to expand. (Here’s where to check for appointments when they open at 6 p.m. ET.) As of the latest report, the five boroughs have reported 1,630 monkeypox cases, a widely…

Matt Ford was not able to get a vaccine for monkeypox, and managed symptoms of the infection with pain medicines. Now that he is recovered after a three-week bout with the virus, Ford opened up about his experience in an interview with LX News’ Ashley Holt.

Thirteen vaccination sites have opened up in Connecticut today. Gus Rosendale reports.

New York City declared a local state of emergency in response to the ballooning monkeypox outbreak on Monday, with Mayor Eric Adams signing the latest in a series of executive orders as efforts intensify to stem the tide. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. As of Monday, New York City has reported 1,472 monkeypox cases, a widely believed well-underreported number…

New York City is declaring a public health emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak, a step that officials say will unlock additional tools to help slow the spread in the city that’s become the epicenter of another health crisis. Mayor Eric Adams and Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan officially issued the declaration Saturday, one day after Gov. Kathy Hochul...

Public health officials warn that moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine could leave millions of people in Africa unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease.