Vaccination Archives - The Westside Story

Measles is making a comeback, thanks to the anti-vaccination movement

Jan 15, 2019

A new outbreak of measles in the New York City area, among the largest in decades, shows how whole communities are put at risk when parents refuse to vaccinate their kids. Vaccines are only truly successful as ...

Anti-vaccination sentiment stems from a broad distrust in science and other institutions

West Side Story

Jun 24, 2017

Health, Opinion, Science

The still rising trend of anti-vaccination activism threatens not only the families who choose not to vaccinate their children, but also society as a whole. But it shouldn't take a deadly resurgence of measles ...

Yellow fever outbreak in Brazil raises concerns of epidemic

West Side Story

Jan 18, 2017

Health, Science, World

An outbreak of yellow fever in Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state near Sao Paulo, has infected 110 people and killed 30, according to a report released Friday. While a vaccine exists for the disease, this outbreak...

Ohio State University makes Vaccination compulsory for new coming students

Cody Gash

Mar 7, 2015

Health

Mumps outbreak a year ago at Ohio State University's Columbus campus spread so fast that it reached close to 500 people. This occurrence raised a concern over raising immunization rates within the state for pro...

Parents in Jackson and Teton opting against vaccination for their children

Cody Gash

Mar 4, 2015

Health

Wyoming - The U.S. citizens have been religiously following the ritual of vaccination since a long time. But now the new-generation parents are increasingly changing their attitude towards this long-held ideolo...

New tough vaccination law among the positive outcome of Disneyland measles outbreak

Cody Gash

Mar 3, 2015

Health

The flexibility to choose whether to get immunizations or not will not be available any longer. The highly publicized Disneyland Measles outbreak, which affected over 150 people in seventeen states, might be ol...

Study finds doctors agree with parents to spread out children’s vaccines over time

Charles Omedo

Mar 3, 2015

Health

COLORADO – While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) – which publishes Pediatrics recommen...

Most Pediatricians agree parents request to ‘space out’ child vaccination schedule

Cody Gash

Mar 2, 2015

Health

Family doctors and pediatricians across the US face a commonplace doubt or question from parents – ‘Can a child’s vaccination schedule be spaced out?’ invariably, a survey claimed that most of the doctors have ...

Measles outbreak troubles health experts about the anti-vaccination trend in Americans

Cody Gash

Feb 9, 2015

Health

There is an escalating trend in the country whereby people are opting out of immunization against infectious diseases. The avoidance of vaccination has now become one of the serious concerns for health experts....

Measles outbreak spur debate over vaccination

Cody Gash

Feb 8, 2015

Health

Measles outbreaks reported from various parts of the U.S. once again spur debate over vaccination, its need and prevailing myths. At least five babies in the Chicago area have been reported to be infected with ...

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