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Since 2017, the percentage of Missouri's kindergarten-age children who have received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has dropped from 95% to around 90%, according to state health officials.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a health advisory due to an increase in measles cases across the United States – including in Missouri. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith sat down with Dr. Amruta Padhye, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at University of Missouri Health Care, to learn more about the disease and what symptoms folks should be on the lookout for.
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The CDC case counts are reported weekly by doctors - 83 COVID cases in were reported in Boone County at the end of January, down 115 cases from the last week of December.
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Flu vaccines will be free to people aged six months to 18 years. COVID-19 vaccines will also be available.
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Flu shots are available at the 18th annual Adair County Health Department drive-thru clinic on Wednesday.
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University of Missouri Health Care will soon offer Saturday drive-thru vaccination events for both the updated flu and the newly formulated COVID-19 vaccines – beginning this week.
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The new, updated COVID-19 vaccine was approved yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and is expected to be available in coming days.
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Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services is hosting three mpox vaccination clinics in the upcoming days.