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Health department to provide free vaccinations on Wednesday
Published September 7, 2008, 3:26 am, Salem Statesman Journal
SALEM — A free vaccination clinic will be held Wednesday at the Oregon State Fairgrounds for children and adults, officials said.
Integrating Adult Vaccines into Your Routine Care
Published September 7, 2008, 3:01 am, Palatka Daily News
(ARA) - Every year, nearly 50,000 Americans, mostly adults, die from diseases that vaccination can prevent and millions more need to be hospitalized, get too sick to care for loved ones, like children or elderly parents, and are forced to miss work.
135,000 school kids lack protection from disease, surveys say
Published September 7, 2008, 2:38 am, Ventura County Star
Hundreds of thousands of children are going to school this fall without protection from deadly diseases. More parents are deciding not to vaccinate their children against mumps, measles, rubella, polio and other dangerous diseases. The parents are refusing to vaccinate because of concerns that the vaccinations themselves are harmful, or because of the growing cost and complexity of getting the ...
Lack of independent studies leave parents questioning the risks
Published September 7, 2008, 2:38 am, Ventura County Star
Barbara Loe Fisher has been fighting about the safety of childhood vaccines for three decades. But the president of the National Vaccine Information Center says she's not opposed to vaccination so much as she's opposed to a "one-size-fits-all vaccine policy imposed by government health agencies."
District, state remind parents of the importance of vaccinations
Published September 7, 2008, 2:17 am, Casper Star-Tribune
Vaccination rates for children in Wyoming have increased, but students in Natrona County School District still return to school with incomplete immunization records.
Local agencies form collaborative effort to assist children endangered by drugs
Published September 6, 2008, 5:01 pm, Newton Daily News
Special to the Daily News Several county offices, along with Skiff Medical Center, have established a Drug Endangered Children Program in Jasper County.
Vaccinations of Toddlers Set a Record
Published September 6, 2008, 1:40 am, The Hendersonville Times-News
Toddlers received the recommended vaccinations against childhood diseases at record levels in 2007, federal health officials said.
New report puts Washington near bottom nationwide for vaccination rates
Published September 6, 2008, 12:12 am, Seattle Times
Many parents in Washington and Idaho fail to have their children vaccinated against deadly diseases, according to a report issued this week.
CDC: More Kansas kids get shots
Published September 5, 2008, 11:17 pm, The Wichita Eagle
The rate at which Kansas toddlers are being immunized is increasing, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But in Kansas and nationwide, the number remains below the goal set by health officials. The CDC report, in Friday's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, said 77.4 percent of children between 19 and 35 months old have all the recommended shots: ...
Health officials remind students, parents of need for vaccines
Published September 5, 2008, 10:15 pm, Nevada Daily Mail
Now that area youth are back in their school routines, local health officials are reminding parents to make sure their kids are properly vaccinated to help protect them from serious diseases.
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