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A US government medical panel recommends the human papillomavirus vaccine for boys, as vaccination rates for young women stagnate.

Flu vaccination rates remained high during the 2010-2011 flu season, according to data in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Bill Gates will have the attention of most of the world's health ministers on Tuesday, when he plans to share one main message: Get your vaccination rates up....

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) A systematic effort to improve flu vaccination rates for health-care workers has increased flu vaccinations rates from 59 percent to 77 percent at the University Health System (UHS) in San Antonio.

A report detailing their interventions to increase vaccination was published in the June issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Vaccinations aren't just for kids.

Adults need them, too, and while vaccination rates are increasing, there's definitely room for improvement, according to public health experts.

VANCOUVER (MedPage Today) -- It's possible to immunize nearly all health care workers in a hospital against the flu -- but it often takes a big stick.

(MedPage Today) -- Rates in 19-to-35-month-olds for many routine vaccines in 2009 approached or exceeded the 90% benchmark set in the Healthy People 2010 initiative, a CDC report said.

(Deutsches Aerzteblatt International) Less than one third of healthcare workers have themselves vaccinated against classic influenza.

In the new issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International, Sabine Wicker of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, and her co-authors reveal why vaccination rates have stayed so low and how they can be improved.

Vaccination rates for teenagers are better in the latest survey, but still fall far short of coverage goals, according to the CDC.