Seattle Kids Have Lower Polio Vaccination Rate Than Rwanda After an outbreak of measles last fall, Washington state health officials hoped that a small subset of parents would change their minds about getting... Isolde Raftery
Washington State Woman First To Die Of Measles In 25 Years A Clallam County woman died of a measles infection three months ago, health officials said on Thursday, making her the first person to die of measles in... Ruby de Luna
Washington Legislators Won't Give Up On Stricter Vaccine Laws Ross Reynolds speaks with Washington state Rep. June Robinson, D-Everett, about her bill which would have stopped parents from opting out of vaccinating... Ross Reynolds Kate O'Connell
What's Behind Washington's Whooping Cough Spike? Washington state’s whooping cough outbreak continues to grow. So far this year, there have been 397 confirmed cases, compared with 85 last year.... Ruby de Luna
Which Adults Need A Measles Vaccine? It Depends On Your Age Ross Reynolds talks with Washington State Department of Health educator Katie Wolt about who should get vaccinated for measles. Ross Reynolds Andy Hurst
Should We Nudge Or Shove You To Get This Week's News? The same question goes for non-vaccinating parents: What’s the right strategy? Also: yet another questionable fatal police shooting, this time in our... Bill Radke
The Surprising Reasons Behind The Growing Anti-Vaccine Movement Ross Reynolds talks with Dr. Douglas Diekema about why some parents don't vaccinate their children. Diekema is professor of pediatrics at the University... Ross Reynolds Andy Hurst
Cancer Parents Say Anti-Vaxxers Put Their Kids At Risk Owain Weinert, at age 8, hadn’t been eating breakfast and was sleeping 12 to 14 hours a night. For months, mysterious fevers came and went. His mother... Isolde Raftery
Clusters Of Unvaccinated Increase Measles Risk In Washington Jeannie Yandel speaks with Paul Throne of the Washington State Department of Health about why some groups of Washingtonians decline to vaccinate against... Posey Gruener Jeannie Yandel
This Year's Flu Shot Might Not Protect Against Most Common Strain Marcie Sillman talks with Dr. Jeffrey Duchin about why this year's flu vaccine may be not very effective against the most common flu strain. Duchin is... Marcie Sillman Andy Hurst
