by ivaccinate | May 23, 2017 | Michigan News, Studies & Research
LANSING — Michigan, with vaccination rates that put it near the bottom of a list of all states, has launched a new campaign — I Vaccinate — that it hopes will boost rates up to 90 percent. Currently, 67.6 percent of Michigan children aged 19 to 35 months have received...
by ivaccinate | May 23, 2017 | Michigan News, Studies & Research
Across much of the state, more kindergarten students were enrolled with all required vaccinations after the state made it more difficult beginning in 2015 to get a waiver from immunizations. Overall, the waiver rate fell by nearly a third from 2014 to 2016. Click on a...
by ivaccinate | May 23, 2017 | Michigan News, Studies & Research
Type in the name of your school to see how many kindergartners in 2016 got a waiver from state requirement they receive vaccinations for measles, pertussis, polio, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, chicken pox, diphtheria and tetanus. To get more details, including how it...
by ivaccinate | Apr 3, 2017 | Studies & Research
Most children who have died of flu in recent years were not vaccinated against the virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reported Monday. They found that at least three-quarters of kids who died from influenza between 2010 and 2014 had not been...
by ivaccinate | Apr 3, 2017 | Studies & Research
A new study shows that the flu vaccine helps prevent flu-related deaths in children. And a second study, also published Monday in Pediatrics, adds to evidence that pregnant women who receive the pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine pass on the protection to their...
by ivaccinate | Mar 22, 2017 | Studies & Research
A new vaccine against a diarrheal disease that kills about 600 children a day worked well in a large trial in Africa and appears to be a practical way to protect millions of children, scientists said on Wednesday. The new vaccine against rotavirus, the most common...
