#Herd immunity

Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News Measles is so contagious that the virus can unerringly find the unvaccinated. That knack, combined with the number of people in the United States who haven’t been vaccinated against the disease, has given measles an opening that it hasn’t had in the

Author: Kathiann Kowalski / Source: Science News for Students Kids’ cuts and scrapes are rarely a big deal. But one six-year-old boy in Oregon nearly died after getting a cut on his forehead while playing outside. Six days after the accident, his jaw began clenching. Muscle spasms wrenched his

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama A new study shows that the vaccine against HPV has caused incidences of human papilloma virus to decline, even among women who don’t get the vaccine. The vaccine protects against several strains of the virus, which are linked to various cancers. The study

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think A children’s doctor injects a vaccine against measles, rubella, mumps and chicken pox to an infant on February 26, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Australia might soon ban unvaccinated children from attending preschools and daycare.