vaccinations

Vaccines have been held up as one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. Not only do they greatly reduce the suffering and death caused by illness, they reduce the cost of care significantly by preventing the need in the first place ...

In its first installment of the Spring 2020 semester, Dixie State University’s weekly lecture series Dixie Forum: A Window on the World will host a presentation on vaccine diplomacy. Dr. Peter J. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development, will present “Vaccine Diplomacy in an Age of War, Political Collapse, Climate Change, and Antiscience.” The forum...

More parents in Utah are choosing not to get their kids vaccinated, despite the high risk of outbreaks of illnesses such as mumps and measles. The rise in non-vaccinated children has the Utah Department of Health concerned. Immunization Program Manager Rich Lakin says non-medical exemptions in Utah district schools went from 4...

A Utah boy has come down with the mumps despite being vaccinated to prevent it.  Eleven-year-old Finn Price says he wasn't sure what was wrong when he became ill last week. Finn's parents were surprised when doctors told them he had the mumps, even though he'd been vaccinated. ...

The Utah Department of Health is calling the current flu season one of the worst the state has had in many years. The department announced yesterday that another Utah child has died from flu, the third so far this season. There were no deaths related to the flu last season...