Vaccines

Measures to curb disease outbreaks haven’t always been popular in North Dakota. It's nothing new that even state officials might oppose certain efforts.

Ask anyone old enough to remember the polio years, and they will probably recall waiting in line to take a vaccine on a sugar cube. Dr. Jonas Salk gets a lot of credit for developing a vaccine to defeat polio, but this oral vaccine came out years afterward, developed by his rival, Dr. Albert Sabin.

Yesterday we heard how the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk’s team arrived in North Dakota. On this date in 1955, North Dakota held its first…

An attempt to introduce a delayed bill by bringing it to the House floor failed.It required a two-thirds vote of the House.Rep. Sebastian Ertelt…

Officials at the North Dakota Department of Health are encouraged that vaccination rates for kindergartners have increased.Lexie Barber is Immunization…

With school starting, the North Dakota Health Department is reminding parents to make sure their children’s vaccines are up to date."When you;re in a…

Cases of the measles are popping up across the country following a holiday season exposure at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.Amy Schwartz is…

Flu season is approaching.And this year, there is a new vaccine. It'ss called “quadrovalent” – meaning it covers four different flu strains."The flu…

The North Dakota Department of Health encourages parents to start getting their children vaccinated now before the back-to-school rush happens.Amy…