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Staff ReportsAugust 16, 2018

Health officials are urging parents to make sure their children are vaccinated against measles after three cases of the disease were reported in a Florida county, among more than 100 cases throughout the U.S. this year. Federal officials declared the contagious virus had been eliminated in the U.S. in 2000; however, infections periodically occur nationwide, […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 28, 2018

There is widespread flu activity from this season’s flu outbreak all across the continental U.S. – something that has not happened in the U.S. Center for Disease Control & Prevention’s 13 years of tracking the spread of influenza. This year’s flu is also particularly contagious and can be spread more easily just by breathing rather […]

Associated PressApril 25, 2016

The number of children showing up to school with their required shots is dropping according to the Florida Department of Health. New data sent to the state’s 67 school districts on Friday showed that nearly 93 percent of kindergarten students and 90.6 percent of seventh-graders had their required immunizations this year. The department stated that’s […]

Marc YachtFebruary 9, 2015

A new politically correct buzzword joins such classics as, New Sincerity (that is passé), Disruptive Innovation (big trouble), the need to Walk Back that comment (oops!), and Disingenuous Statement (lie)! Welcome Anti-Vaxxers. This growing legion of the misinformed refuses their children lifesaving vaccinations. Vaccines stand accused by one prominent conservative doctor-politician of potentially causing mental […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 2, 2015

The other night I received a recorded message from my children’s principal. He called to inform parents that a student at my sons’ high school has TB and – that’s all I heard. Like any sleep-deprived mom about ten minutes late for happy hour, I immediately shrieked, dropped the phone and went online for answers. […]

Tag: Vaccination

Florida urges vaccinations after 3 measles cases reported

R. Scott Shalley: Allowing pharmacists to administer vital flu shots saves lives

Rising number of Florida children skipping out on shots

Marc Yacht: 'Anti-Vaxxers' politically correct, medically incorrect

Catherine Durkin Robinson: Anti-immunization insanity endangers kids