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Passage of vaccination-related bills spurs bloody protest in Sacramento.
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Passage of vaccination-related bills spurs bloody protest in Sacramento.

  • Pam Marino
  • Sep 18, 2019

The scene was unlike anything state senators had seen in memory as they worked to end the 2019 legislative session on the evening of Friday, S…

Free Tdap vaccination clinics offered for students entering the 7th grade.
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Free Tdap vaccination clinics offered for students entering the 7th grade.

  • Pam Marino
  • Apr 30, 2019

With cases of measles on the rise in California—38 so far in 2019—vaccination rates and vaccinations in general are in the spotlight. The good…

County health workers’ daily grind involves dangerous blood, tainted food and animal brains.
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County health workers’ daily grind involves dangerous blood, tainted food and animal brains.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Apr 9, 2015

A skunk brain, barely the size of a golf ball, sits in a clear container in a refrigerator behind a sliding glass door. A county animal contro…

Central Coast assemblyman co-authors bill to force vaccinations, with only medical exemptions.
News

Central Coast assemblyman co-authors bill to force vaccinations, with only medical exemptions.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Mar 5, 2015

In the space of 18 months, Augustina Ursino says, four local pediatricians turned her family away – all because she chooses not to have her ch…

Forum | Opinion

Vaccine deniers span all sides of the political fringe, to the peril of everyone else.

  • Michelle Goldberg
  • Feb 12, 2015

It’s grotesque, but not surprising, that in the midst of the current measles outbreak, some leading Republicans are humoring vaccine denialist…

Sixteen local schools and child care centers are vulnerable to measles spread, officials warn.
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Sixteen local schools and child care centers are vulnerable to measles spread, officials warn.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Jan 29, 2015

Ebola has nothing on measles in terms of contagiousness. Epidemiologists have pinned the “reproduction number,” or average number of people a …

State flags local schools and child-care centers most vulnerable to a measles outbreak.
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State flags local schools and child-care centers most vulnerable to a measles outbreak.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Jan 27, 2015

Since the California measles outbreak began at Disneyland in mid-December, 73 cases of the highly infectious—and easily prevented—virus have b…

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