West Virginia Lawmakers OK Bill Drawing Back One of the Strictest Child Vaccination Laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as among the most strict in the country.
The bill was approved despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor, who called the bill “an embarrassment” and said he believed lawmakers were harming the state.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LEAH WILLINGHAM / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk wire Source Type: news
Vaccine info line's future uncertain despite rise in measles-related calls, SickKids says
A vaccine information phone line for parents at SickKids hospital has seen an increase in calls in recent weeks, but the project's co-lead says it's currently on hold after federal funding was not renewed. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
Africa: Measles Is One of the Deadliest and Most Contagious Infectious Diseases - and One of the Most Easily Preventable
[The Conversation Africa] "You don't count your children until the measles has passed." Dr. Samuel Katz, one of the pioneers of the first measles vaccine in the late 1950s to early 1960s, regularly heard this tragic statement from parents in countries where the measles vaccine was not yet available, because they were so accustomed to losing their children to measles. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 5, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Source Type: news
10 measles cases identified in Quebec, 7 in Montreal, public health officials say
Quebec's public health director Dr. Luc Boileau is asking Quebecers to make sure they and their children's vaccinations against measles are up-to-date, as cases of the virus are on the rise in the province, especially in Montreal. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
Midwife's Fake Vaccines Deserve More Punishment: Ethicist Midwife's Fake Vaccines Deserve More Punishment: Ethicist
Art Caplan discusses a midwife ' s fraudulent vaccination practices, resulting in measles outbreak fears, and the need for severe punishment.Medscape Business of Medicine (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - March 4, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news
B.C. reports first measles case since 2019
A case of measles has been reported in British Columbia — the first since 2019 — as the number of infections rise in some parts of the world, and health officials are urging residents to make sure they're up to date on vaccines. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
US suffers year's worth of measles cases already in first two months of 2024 - as vaccine uptake dips below dangerous threshold
Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) show 41 cases were diagnosed in January and February, equivalent to 20 cases per month. Last year, there were 58 cases in the US. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vaccines Protect You & Your Kids From Measles: FDA
MONDAY, March 4, 2024 -- As new outbreaks of measles -- a once nearly eliminated illness in the United States -- continue to emerge, experts remind Americans that there ' s an easy way to stop infection: Get vaccinated. " Measles spreads so easily... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Everything you need to know about protecting yourself against measles
As measles cases rise around the world — and appear in countries like Canada with ready access to life-saving vaccines — public health experts are urging parents to vaccinate their children and adults to get their shots, too. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/The Dose Source Type: news
Measles cases in Quebec underscore importance of vaccination, doctor says
Dr. Earl Rubin, director of pediatric infectious diseases at the Montreal Children's Hospital, says he is 'very concerned' that four of the seven measles cases in Quebec were not acquired overseas and are not linked epidemiologically. Rubin says infants, people who are immunocompromised, and adults who are not vaccinated are most susceptible to the disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science
The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop itShortly before Joseph Ladapo was sworn in as Florida ’s surgeon general in 2022, the New Yorker ran a short column welcoming the vaccine-skeptic doctor to his new role, and highlighting his advocacy for theuse of leeches in public health.It was satire of course, a teasing of the Harvard-educated physician for his unorthodox medical views, which include a steadfast belief that life-saving Covid shots are thework of the devil, and that opening a window is the preferred treatment for the inha...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 3, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Richard Luscombe in Miami Tags: Florida Infectious diseases Science US news Ron DeSantis Republicans Source Type: news
Public health reports cases of measles in Laval and Montreal, urges people to get vaccinated
An infected person in Laval was unvaccinated, did not travel and was not in contact with a known case of measles, public health officials say in a Thursday news release, adding that community transmission is therefore possible. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
Measles campaign shows children pleading for jabs
Health officials want to remind busy parents in England of the serious risks if vaccinations are missed. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Huge push to get kids vaccinated against illnesses like measles, polio and diphtheria as uptake rates plunge to decade low in wake of Covid
Fronted by children, the advert aims to appeal directly to parents and boost the numbers getting their children vaccinated with experts concerned about the risk illness falling jab uptake. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Measles Cases Are Rising Right Now
Last year, cases of measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease that’s highly contagious—jumped by 79% around the world. Most of them were in children. That trend is continuing this year, threatening to reverse an impressive 73% drop in measles deaths worldwide from 2000 to 2018.
Cases in the U.S. are climbing, too. In just the first two months of 2024, 35 cases have already been reported in 15 states including California, Minnesota, Florida, New York, and Louisiana; in 2023, 58 cases were reported over the entire year.
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Source: TIME: Health - February 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
