Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Photo by Leslie Gartrell/The Daily Standard

A 6-month-old boy receives two shots during a visit to the Mercer County District Health Department on Thursday evening. Infants and children under the age of 5 are at high risk for severe illness and complications from measles, making community immunity against the disease imperative, officials said.

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  CELINA - Mercer County Health District Director of Nursing and Communicable Disease Coordinator Julia Shaffer is spreading the word about immunization rates in Mercer County as the national measles outbreak continues to spread. [More]
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