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Experts consider expanding meningitis vaccine eligibility after Kent outbreak

Scientific advisory committee to examine impact of offering routine MenB jabs to wider range of people

The Guardian - UK

Kent’s meningitis outbreak was years in the making – here’s why

Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent. The students caught up in it belong to a generation that has never been routinely vaccinated against the strain responsible.

The Conversation

The UK’s childhood vaccination schedule just changed. Here’s why that’s actually reassuring

The UK has updated its childhood immunisation schedule. For parents who had already mapped out their child’s vaccination appointments in their heads, the announcement might have come as an unwelcome surprise.

The Conversation

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World-first gonorrhoea vaccine programme set to be rolled out

It is hoped the programme will help tackle rising rates of the infection, including cases that are resistant to antibiotics.

The Independent UK

The UK is no longer offering COVID vaccines to pregnant women – here’s why that might be a bad idea

Until now, COVID vaccines have been available to pregnant women as part of the twice-yearly booster programme, but this offer is being withdrawn.

The Conversation

COVID: why the UK’s autumn vaccine strategy could fail patients

This summer has seen a large COVID wave – one which is showing potential to be bigger than the 2023 winter wave was.

The Conversation

Fewer people than ever will receive a Covid booster this spring. The UK needs a new strategy

This spring those at the highest risk will miss out on the jab. Meanwhile, the government will be throwing away vaccines, says immunologist Sheena Cruickshank

The Guardian - UK

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U.S. data underscore benefits of chickenpox vaccination

U.K. govt. recommends chickenpox vaccine for children to reduce risk of shingles in adults. Vaccine has been shown to prevent 91 million cases, 2,38,000 hospitalisations, and almost 2,000 deaths in U.S. Unpublished study by University of Bristol found complications from severe varicella were common, costly and placed burden on health…

The Hindu

Chickenpox vaccine recommended for NHS – here’s why a jab is better than getting the disease

The chickenpox vaccine is already offered as part of childhood immunisation programmes in several countries, including Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Now the UK government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended it be included as part of the routine immunisations children receive in the UK.

The Conversation

Wondering whether your child should get the chickenpox vaccine? It could become available on the NHS - here's why

The government has been advised to make the jab available to all children, so parents want to know if the chickenpox vaccine is available on the NHS.

GoodToKnow

Why is the UK proposing chickenpox vaccines and do we really need them?

We explore the background to the plan for them to become part of the UK’s routine childhood immunisation programme

The Guardian - UK

Childhood chickenpox vaccine recommended for use on the NHS

Youngsters should be offered two doses when they are aged 12 months and 18 months, scientists have said.

The Independent UK

Chickenpox jab should be added to routine childhood vaccine programme, advisers say

Vaccine has been given in other countries, including US and Australia, for years

The Independent UK

Why aren’t we all being offered an autumn Covid booster? We can’t let cost prevent us keeping Britain healthy

The UK’s limited vaccine offer ignores the serious threat of long Covid – and the knock-on effects on the economy, says immunologist Sheena Cruickshank

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Can I buy the Covid vaccine and who is eligible for the booster ?

As cases continue to rise vaccination programmes in the UK are now entering its third autumn season

The National (Scotland)

This is who is eligible for a 2023 autumn Covid-19 booster

The number of people to be offered the Covid-19 booster jab in the autumn has been scaled back, health officials have announced.

The Independent UK

NHS flu jabs and Covid boosters to be scrapped for millions

Around 12 million Britons are no longer eligible for free Covid booster doses or flu shots

Evening Standard

Will there be a Covid booster in autumn 2023?

Eligible Brits will be invited to get their Covid-19 and flu booster earlier than initially planned

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The Independent UK

Fewer people eligible for Covid-19 autumn booster

Health officials have tightened the eligibility criteria.

The Hindu

Evolution is the right of all life forms – even synthetic ones

Researchers led by Jay T. Lennon at Indiana University in Bloomington, U.S., attempted to understand how a synthetic life-form would adapt or evolve over time, especially in situations where the raw materials required to do so could be limited.

The Guardian - UK

RSV vaccine for older adults approved by UK medicines regulator

Arexvy could help NHS deal with virus that causes about 8,000 deaths among older people in UK each year

Wales Online

Covid jab offered to some babies and children from the age of six months

The vaccine has been approved for use in children age between six months and four years old

The Independent UK

Babies and children under five to be offered Covid jab for the first time

The JCVI has advised that clinically vulnerable children aged six months to four years should be offered the vaccincation.

The National (Scotland)

Scotland confirm spring Covid booster programme for over-75s for end of March

Scotland will offer out a spring Covid booster to those aged 75 and over at the end of March 2023

Daily Record

Vulnerable Scots to be offered spring Covid-19 vaccine boosters

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf confirmed top-up jags are expected to start before the end of the month.

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