YREKA, Calif. — Several Siskiyou County community members are protesting a mandatory flu vaccine for all healthcare workers. Event organizers called Tuesday morning’s protest outside the Siskiyou County Courthouse “Immunity from Tyranny” advocating for healthcare workers to choose whether or ...
MEDFORD, Ore. — Medford’s ‘Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon’ on Crater Lake Avenue is one of roughly 90 U.S. clinical trial sites for phase 3 testing of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to The Oregonian. The vaccine was produced by ...
August is Immunization Awareness Month and health officials are urging parents to make sure their children are caught up on vaccines. Oregon Health Authority officials and a local doctor said Oregon children are begin on their immunizations, for multiple reasons. ...
SEATTLE, Wash. (NBC) – Testing for an experimental coronavirus vaccine is officially underway in the U.S. The phase 1 clinical trial began Monday at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The trial involves a total of 45 ...
ASHLAND, Ore. – Protesters took to the streets in Ashland and Medford Friday, upset over a bill in the Oregon Legislature that could change Oregon’s vaccine requirements. House Bill 3063 would ban all vaccine exemptions in the state outside of ...
ROCKLIN COUNTY, N.Y. (NBC News) – A state of emergency has been declared in Rockland County, New York as health officials work to contain a growing measles outbreak. “Anyone who is under 18 years of age, and is unvaccinated against ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – All student vaccination records need to be up to date or exemption paperwork needs to be turned in by Wednesday February 20, 2019. This year, about 1,400 letters went out to families letting them know their ...
Ashland, Ore. – Local health officials are currently monitoring a “pertussis outbreak” in the Ashland School District. Now, Jackson County Public Health is “requesting that exposed children who have not been vaccinated, or who are under-vaccinated against pertussis, not return ...
Olympia, Wash. (CNN) — On Thursday, Washington State reported 404 confirmed and probable cases of mumps since October. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus spread from person to person through saliva and mucus. Two counties are reporting ...
Medford, Ore. — Jackson County public health officials met this morning to provide direction to schools and health care providers after a local high school student came down with the mumps. NBC5 News first told you about the illness on ...