vaccine

UPDATED 7/8 with University Beat audio report and additional quotes. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, over half of American girls ages...

Central Florida health officials have confirmed another flu-related death, according to the Orlando Sentinel.The 63-year-old diabetic woman who died…

Nearly all of the Gainesville-area residents who died from flu this season didn’t have vaccinations. And flu shots may have prevented those illnesses,…

Health officials suspect bacterial meningitis killed a 4-year-old Pasco County boy, the Tampa Tribune reports. Results from a lab test by the county…

A vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer has cut infections among teenage girls by over half in the first four years of use, scientists report. Only about one-third of girls in that age group have received the recommended shots.

While pneumonia is one of the top causes of death for seniors, only about half of Florida’s Hispanic seniors were vaccinated in 2011, the South Florida…