MORGANTOWN -- According to Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Brian Huggins, West Virginia is one of very few states - regardless of political leanings - that hasn’t seen a significant reduction in kindergarten vaccination rates over the last four years. He fears that’s about to ...
Gov. Jim Justice vetoed a bill loosening vaccination requirements in some schools, drawing praise from health care organizations. “Since this legislation was passed, I have heard constant, strong opposition to this legislation from our State’s medical community,” Justice wrote in his ...
The Senate Health Committee advanced a bill that loosens some of West Virginia’s school vaccination requirements, with the chairman saying he wouldn’t have run it if he’d had a choice about it. House Bill 5105 removes vaccination requirements for students in virtual public schools, ...
by Sarah Woodrum As a public health professional, a Rotarian and a mom, I oppose House Bill 5105. Rotary International has been on the front line in the fight against polio since the 1970s and was a key contributor to the immunization efforts in response to the COVID-19 global ...
After debate of almost two hours, delegates voted for several exemptions to vaccine requirements in West Virginia schools. House Bill 5105 first removed vaccine requirements for students attending virtual public schools, then was expanded to allow private schools to adopt their own ...
by Lisa Jarvis A cluster of measles cases in the Northeast is putting a spotlight on how easily the highly contagious disease can spread — and how dangerous any further slip in childhood vaccination rates could be. It takes only a handful of measles cases to make headlines. ...