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Columbus Public Health and Columbus City Schools are joining forces to protect kids throughout the city from vaccine-preventable diseases. Thursday morning they kicked off their new campaign called 'Kick Sick' at Arts Impact Middle School. Their goal is to educate students about the importance of vaccines and to provide parents with opportunities to get their children vaccinated. [+] more

Recent preliminary data suggests that there has been a 39 percent decline in school-age vaccine waivers in the state, which experts attribute to a non-medical vaccination waiver rule change from January 2015. Two years ago, Michigan had the sixth-highest vaccination waiver rate within the U.S. Over 5 percent of kindergarten students did not receive vaccinations and still had their waivers. [+] more

Last week, a new study published in Pediatrics suggested that the pertussis immunity from the recommended adolescent Tdap booster was quick to wane.  [+] more

The global problem of antibiotic misuse that allows bacteria to become resistant can be solved in part by more use-not of antibiotics, but of vaccines and other compounds, which could reduce the occurrence of diseases that antibiotics are otherwise used to treat. [+] more