RFK Jr. Cites Flawed Paper Claiming Link Between Vaccines and Autism in HHS Confirmation Hearing
In his second day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of ...
Kindergartners in Pike, Wayne counties have some of Pa.'s lowest measles vaccination rates
Physicians say a measles inoculation rate of roughly 95% achieves herd immunity. Pike and Wayne fall short by some of Pa.'s ...
Measles vaccination rates drop among Pa. kindergartners, raising herd immunity concerns
Across Pennsylvania, 94% of kindergartners had received 2 or more doses of the measles vaccine for the 2023-2024 school year, a 4-year drop of 1.5%.
Pa. childhood vaccination rates dip, including for fast-spreading measles
The rate of children who last year were opted out of the childhood vaccinations required to attend school in Pennsylvania ...
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Measles case reported in Alaska from Seattle flight
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - An Alaskan resident was admitted to a Homer hospital with a measles infection after flying home from Seattle and subsequently driving from Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula, ...
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Measles outbreak growing around Kanesatake
More than half of Quebec’s confirmed measles cases are in the Laurentians, as the latest outbreak of the highly contagious illness continues to spread. So far, of 11 cases that have been ...
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Harrisburg’s Wildheart Ministries, fueled by faith, draws scrutiny over its motives
Days before Christmas, the Wildheart Ministries’ mansion on 13th Street in Harrisburg was filled with hundreds of presents. Shiny new tricycles and bikes were lined up against a wall of the ...
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Grand Erie health unit hosts booster clinic after measles exposure
How a person in Haldimand-Norfolk contracted the measles remains a mystery, but the local health unit is taking steps to keep the highly contagious airborne disease from spreading. On Friday ...
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Quebec measles outbreak grows to 11 cases; officials warn of thousands of exposures
The Quebec government says thousands of people might have been exposed to measles at a shopping mall north of Montreal earlier this month, as an outbreak of the highly contagious disease ...
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Falling Child Vaccinations
A chart shows the share of kindergartners in the United States who are vaccinated against measles, polio and whooping cough. In the 2023-24 school year, less than 93 percent of kindergartners were ...
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Childhood Vaccination Rates Were Falling Even Before the Rise of R.F.K. Jr.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nationwide, the rate of kindergartners with complete records for the measles vaccine declined from around 95 percent before the pandemic to under ...
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New Brunswick declares measles outbreak is over
A measles outbreak in New Brunswick that resulted in a cluster of cases in Ontario and helped push Canada's case count to the highest it's been in a decade, is over, the Department of Health ...