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Back to School Causes New Push for Whooping Cough Vaccine
Health officials are urging parents to get their children caught up on vaccines before students head back to school this year as the whooping cough epidemic approaches its peak in California. State...
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Bay Area Private Schools Rank High In Vaccination Opt-Out Rates
MILL VALLEY (KCBS)— Bay Area public health leaders are reacting to news that parents of private school children in California are more likely to opt out of vaccinations than parents of kids in public...
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Skunk Killed By Dog Tests Positive For Rabies, First Case In Monterey County
MARINA (CBS SF) — Police are warning Marina residents of a dead skunk found in a city neighborhood that tested positive for rabies last week, police said Wednesday. Animal Control officers responded to...
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Gates Foundation Donating $50 Million To Stanford For ‘New Generation Of...
STANFORD (CBS SF) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to give Stanford University $50 million over the next 10 years to help develop vaccines. Stanford announced Thursday that the grant will...
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TIMELINE: How The U.S. Went From Eliminating Measles In 2000 To The Worst...
(CBS SF) — The recent measles outbreak that has reached 14 states and infected more than 100 people has many wondering how a disease that was considered eradicated in the U.S. 15 years ago is a renewed...
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Stanford Researchers Seeking A New Generation Of Vaccines Amid Measles Outbreak
Our weekly half-hour news interview. On air: Saturdays 5:30 a.m.; Sundays 8:30 a.m., 8:30 p.m. on KCBS All News 740AM and 106.9FM. SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — As the current measles outbreak keeps the topic...
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Security Stepped Up At State Capitol After Vaccine Bill Author Receives Death...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_1404201522044120608AA.mp4 SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — Security has been stepped up at the state capitol Tuesday night after the author of a bill that would make...
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California Mandatory School Vaccination Bill Stalls Amid Angry Debate
SACRAMENTO (AP) — A California vaccination bill that has generated intense debates pitting personal rights against public health stalled in the state Senate Wednesday, with lawmakers saying it could...
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Avowed Anti-Vaxxer Mom Has Change Of Heart As All 7 Kids Develop Whooping Cough
(CBS SF) — A Canadian woman refused to vaccinate her children and resisted the urging of relatives to reconsider her anti-vax stance has now charged her tune now that all seven of her unvaccinated...
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Disney-Linked Measles Outbreak Soon To Be Over In California
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland and reignited debate about vaccinations is nearing an end. The outbreak will be declared over in California on Friday if no new cases...
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Elmo, U.S. Surgeon General Urge Children To Get Their Vaccinations
(CBS SF) — The U.S. Surgeon General has teamed up with Elmo from Sesame Street to appeal to children directly about getting vaccinated. In a YouTube video posted on the Dept. of Health & Human...
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Lawmaker Against California Vaccine Bill SB277 Makes Comparison To Internment...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — A Central Valley assemblyman blasted a controversial vaccine bill, saying unvaccinated children who would be forced to be home-schooled might feel like they’re in “internment...
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California Assembly Passes Strict School Vaccination Bill; Awaits Gov. Brown...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s Assembly has approved a hotly contested bill requiring that nearly all public schoolchildren be vaccinated, ending personal belief and religious exemptions. It’s one of...
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1st U.S. Measles Death In 12 Years Reported In Washington State
(CBS SF) — For the first time in 12 years, a person in the U.S. has died from the measles, health officials said. A woman in Washington State was determined to have died from measles this spring...
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California Vaccine Law Opponents Cleared To Gather Signatures For Measure To...
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — California’s secretary of state says the proponents of a ballot measure to repeal the state’s new mandatory vaccination law can begin collecting signatures for their effort....
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California Children Face New Vaccine Requirements For New School Year
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Under a new California law, all children must be vaccinated for the incoming 2016-17 school year, regardless of their parents’ personal or religious beliefs. Children’s Claremont...
View ArticleAnti-Vax Parents Using Medical Exemptions To Avoid Vaccines
SEBASTOPOL (KPIX 5) — Parents opposed to vaccines are getting around a tough, new law. California got rid of the personal belief excuse for school vaccinations, but parents may have found another way....
View ArticleAmid Measles Outbreaks, California May Toughen Immunization Rules
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF / AP) — California would give state public health officials instead of local doctors the power to decide which children can skip vaccinations before attending school under...
View ArticleU.S. Measles Cases Hit Highest Mark In 25 Years
NEW YORK (AP) — Measles in the U.S. has climbed to its highest level in 25 years, closing in on 700 cases this year in a resurgence largely attributed to misinformation that is turning parents against...
View ArticleStudent Who Sued Over Chickenpox Vaccine Comes Down With Chickenpox
WALTON, Ky. (CBS Local) — The high school senior who went to court after he was barred from playing basketball because he wasn’t vaccinated against chickenpox has come down with the illness, his lawyer...
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