Federal health officials are encouraging farm workers who tend livestock and poultry to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza to help prevent a bird flu mutation that might spark a pandemic in people. The U.S. Centers…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as…

NEW YORK (AP) — The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said. More parents are questioning routine childhood vaccinations that they used…

WICHITA, Kansas — A national shortage of a new immunization that protects babies from severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus is worrying Kansas doctors as they try to avoid a repeat of last year’s “tripledemic”…

WASHINGTON — After more than three years and 1.1 million deaths, the United States on Thursday will end the public health emergency for COVID-19 — and Congress is attempting to better prepare for a possible…

DALLAS — Staying on schedule with the COVID-19 vaccine can feel like chasing a moving target. Rules and recommendations for the shot series changed over the last two years as studies revealed the efficacy of…

DEAR DR. ROACH: Both my husband and I just had the flu. We initially suspected that it was COVID, but the tests were negative. My symptoms, especially cough and runny nose, hung on for over…

Rebecca Johnson, director of the Southeast Kansas Multi-Agency Health Departments, is concerned about a decline in childhood vaccination rates.  That’s been the case for years, even before COVID-19 appeared, she said. It seems to have…

The shift from summer to fall is a good time to start thinking about how to protect yourself against illnesses that tend to thrive during cooler months.  Vaccinations are particularly important this year as a…

TOPEKA — As COVID-19 case numbers approach levels not seen since February, Kansas doctors are encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated. A month removed from the vaccine receiving emergency use authorization for children younger…