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CDC Study Shows Flu Vaccination Prevents Severe Flu Illness in U.S. Children

A new CDC study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) shows that flu vaccination protected children against serious flu illness even when they were infected with a flu virus that was antigenically different from the vaccine virus.

Safe and Effective Vaccine That Prevents Many Kinds of Cancer Continues to Be Underused

The number of girls and boys aged 13 to 17 years receiving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine remains unacceptably low despite a slight increase in vaccination coverage since 2012.