Childhood vaccination rates for the 2024-25 school year fell for the fifth year in a row, according to data from the Centers ...

New data: The CDC found that during the 2024-25 school year, 4.1% of kindergartners had a vaccine exemption, surpassing the ...

The CDC data also show that vaccine exemptions, for the fourth year in a row, have hit a new record high. The percentage of ...

The percentage of kids who didn't get their recommended childhood vaccines rose again last school year, continuing the ...

The new report paints a sobering picture of immunizations as infectious diseases like measles surge across the United States.

But amid the pandemic, vaccination rates fell, dropping to 93.9 percent MMR coverage in the 2020–2021 year, and have kept creeping downward. At the height of the pandemic, some slippage in ...

Vaccination rates for several diseases including measles, diphtheria and polio decreased among U.S. kindergartners in the ...

The vaccination numbers were posted as the U.S. experiences its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, ...

Georgia's MMR vaccination rates for kindergarteners have fallen from 93.6% in 2019-20 to 88.4% in 2023-24, pushing children further from the 95% rate needed for herd immunity.

Ailments like measles, which were once treated as a standard part of childhood but which could have severe and lasting side ...