Health Minister Simon Harris has witten to politicians, ordering them to publicly support childhood vaccinations to combat anti-vax “scaremongering” and “populist nonsense”.

The contract is for supply, over about five years, of about one million doses of the 6in1 vaccine, which relates to Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis, Hepatits B, Inactivated Polio Vaccine and Hameophilus Infuenza Type B.

A decision on the cost- effectiveness of offering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to boys is not expected until September next year, it has emerged.

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Concern about the school administration of the Gardasil vaccination to the nations’ teenage girls, must surely warrant at least a pause in its continuance, if not an outright rescinding of the vaccination decision by the statutory health agencies involved?

Up to 1,000 people could die in Ireland from flu over the coming months, healthchiefs have warned.

Up to 1,000 people could die in Ireland from flu over the coming months, health chiefs have warned.

OVER-65s and pregnant women are just some of the at-risk groups advised to get the annual seasonal flu vaccination.

PUBLIC health officials have taken the drastic step of writing to schools offering to vaccinate students against mumps in an attempt to crack down on an increasing number of outbreaks of the disease.

NEWBORN babies in Cork are not being automatically vaccinated against TB — even though BCG vaccination jabs are on the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) recommended childhood vaccine schedule.