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California urges mpox vaccination after more-severe strain detected in San Francisco
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-18/mpox-vaccination-urged-after-more-severe-strain-detected-in-san-francisco

Mpox vaccination urged after more-severe strain detected in San Francisco
California health officials are urging high-risk residents to get vaccinated against mpox after a potentially more-severe strain of the virus was detected for the first time in San Francisco.

Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds (Lauren Chan/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/covid-vaccination-cardiovascular-protection-jama-study/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p125#a260615p125

As Bozkurt, Kamat, and Hotez reported in Circulation,
the myocarditis risk from COVID-19 vaccination is both rare and less severe than the myocarditis one risks from COVID-19 itself:
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, myocarditis/pericarditis rates are
≈12.6 cases per million doses of second-dose mRNA vaccine among individuals 12 to 39 years of age.
…

Despite rare cases of myocarditis,
the benefit-risk assessment for COVID-19 vaccinati…

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June,
the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started affecting their grocery run.
“We go to the Costco that was kind of a hotbed,” said John Otwell after his state health department's warnings of public exposures at the store

Babies are ‘sitting ducks’ as US measles outbreak spreads to more states
Dropping vaccination rates have eroded protection across the nation