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Mother loses daughter to whooping cough. Now she fights to improve Michigan’s poor vaccination rate.Baby Francesca was just 12 weeks old when she came down with a cough. Nine days later, she died of pertussis, better known as whooping cough.Now, her…
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Michigan wants college students to go back to school with more than just textbooks.State health officials are urging college students to make sure they…
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Many physicians and public health scientists view vaccination as the greatest development in modern medicine.And yet, doctors like Phoebe Day Danziger and…
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Chicken pox cases are up nearly 60% from this time last year, state health officials say.The majority of those 239 cases were people who hadn’t been…
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A suspected case of mumps has been reported at Calvin College near Grand Rapids.As of Tuesday morning, the school was still waiting on lab results to…
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Blame "antigenic drift" for the failure of last year's flu vaccine to offer a robust protection against the illness.The Centers for Disease Control says a…
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Christina Karpinski is getting a little worried.She's the immunizations coordinator for Washtenaw County, and she knows there are hundreds of families out…
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Back-to-school events are taking place around Michigan this week.Thousands turned out at an event in Lansing today. Along with school supplies and back…
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This is the first new school year that parents have to attend vaccination education sessions at their county health department, if they want a vaccination…
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The clock is ticking for parents who waited to get their children vaccinated, or who haven't yet acquired a waiver from vaccines.A new state policy…