US EditionVaccines Facing Misinformation Spike: WHO Experts
WHO highlights risks to polio eradication from Middle East conflict and warns misinformation and funding gaps threaten vaccine trust and immunisation programs globally.
- On March 18, World Health Organization immunisation experts said rising misinformation and uncertain research funding challenge vaccine programmes, while WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation warned the Middle East war will likely hamper polio efforts.
- WHO vaccines chief Kate O'Brien said protecting trust will be central in 2026 as research and development funding follows outbreaks, risking backsliding or countries dropping vaccines.
- SAGE recommended twice-yearly COVID jabs for highest-risk groups due to waning protection beyond six months and noted mRNA vaccine manufacturers dominate, urging pan-coronavirus vaccines development.
- SAGE voiced concern over ongoing wild poliovirus transmission in Pakistan and Afghanistan and vaccine-derived type-2 poliovirus in several African countries linked to oral polio vaccines.
- Amid funding gaps, SAGE urged investment in pan-coronavirus vaccines and longer-lasting injections, while Dr O'Brien questioned, 'There are billions and billions of dollars being spent, day in and day out to destroy lives through wars.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Wednesday about serious threats faced by global immunization programs. The entity's Expert Group on Strategic Advice on Immunization (SAGE) noted that disinformation and lack of money to investigate endanger public health. Experts held their six-monthly meeting the previous week to discuss the situation of drugs against covid-19 and typhoid fever. According to the group's statement, distorted infor…
"Trust in vaccines is threatened by misinformation [...] The risk is that of a step backwards," says Kate O的Brien, Director of the WHO Department of Immunization and Vaccines.
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Vaccines facing misinformation spike: WHO experts
GENEVA: Vaccine programmes are being challenged by rising misinformation and an uncertain pipeline for research funding, the World Health Organization's immunisation experts said on Wednesday (Mar 18).And the war in the Middle East will likely hamper the fight against polio, the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group
Vaccination programs are threatened by growing misinformation and uncertainties about research funding, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday. The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Vaccination (SAGE) held its six-month meeting last week, focused on [...] The post Disinformation threatens confidence in vaccines, warns WHO was first published in Information Focus.
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