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Weber-Morgan officials to visit schools to immunize against whooping cough

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Weber-Morgan Health Department will visit schools through the end of April to offer sixth-graders the whooping cough vaccine.

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Whooping cough outbreak raises questions about vaccinations

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

More than 65 Mount Ogden Junior High School students were sent home for being underimmunized or on immunization exemption -- for personal, religious or medical reasons -- on Oct. 24, when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed.

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Flu vaccine clinics offered in Davis

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 10:53pm

CLEARFIELD -- Davis County Health officials are reminding residents that the easiest, most reliable way to prevent the spread of flu is to be vaccinated against it.

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Some vaccines cause seizures, study finds

Carol M. Ostrom The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 11:58am

A high-powered scientific committee that examined the possible connection between vaccines and health problems found convincing evidence that some vaccines can cause rare adverse events in certain people, including seizures, brain inflammation and fainting.

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New bighorn vaccine shows promise

Eric Barker, The Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 11:45am

PULLMAN, Wash. -- A wildlife disease researcher at Washington State University successfully used an experimental vaccine to inoculate a small number of bighorn sheep against a deadly form of pneumonia.

The achievement is considered a promising development in the effort to protect wild bighorn sheep from a disease carried by domestic sheep, but far from a final solution in the ongoing saga that pits native wildlife against the sheep ranching industry.

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