News
Roberts: Keep our kids safe from disease
More than 60 years ago at the University of Michigan, Dr. Jonas Salk unveiled the first effective vaccine to combat polio. Three years prior to the announcement, polio had afflicted 58,000 individuals. Infections plummeted with the availability and administration of...
University of Iowa leads experimental chikungunya vaccine study
OWA CITY, Iowa (KWQC) - The University of Iowa is one of three sites in the United States that will be enrolling participants for a clinical trial of an experimental vaccine for a debilitating inflammatory virus called chikungunya. Researchers will enroll healthy...
The Importance Of Getting Vaccination Before Traveling Abroad
Traveling abroad for a holiday can be fun, but if you come back sick, or even worse, spread it around back at home, it won't be a happy story. Not getting the right vaccinations when you are going outside the country can be a source of trouble. According to a recent...
Minnesota Is Experiencing Its Largest Outbreak of Measles in Nearly 30 Years
Health officials are grappling with the largest outbreak of measles in Minnesota in almost 30 years, which is mainly sickening young children of Somali immigrants who fell under the sway of anti-vaccination activists. The state has reported 44 confirmed cases of...
House panel weighs school vaccine waiver requirement
Lansing — Dozens of people crammed into a committee hearing room Thursday to weigh in on legislation to stop the state’s health department from requiring a signed waiver from parents of schoolchildren who are not vaccinated against major communicable diseases....
Michigan’s Childhood Immunization Rate Among Nation’s Worst
Vaccination is one of the best ways parents can protect infants, children, and teens from 16 potentially harmful diseases. Vaccine-preventable diseases can be very serious, may require hospitalization, or even be deadly — especially in infants and young children....
Increasing vaccinations – Medical officials applaud new statewide campaign
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...
Interactive map: Vaccination rates across Michigan
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...
Database: Search vaccination rate of YOUR school
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...
Johnson County is bracing for more mumps cases as college students return home
In Marshall County, Kan., just south of the Nebraska border, public health officials are eagerly awaiting the last day of school on Thursday. Over the past three months, the county has taken the lead in Kansas mumps cases, with 29 confirmed illnesses that have mostly...