CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A second and last-minute attempt to once again move childhood vaccine exemption legislation in the West Virginia Senate ended Thursday night when an amendment was ...

A memorandum to county superintendents issued Friday by the West Virginia Department of Education requiring schools to abide ...

That committee amendment struck out a religious and philosophical exemption to West Virginia’s compulsory school-age vaccine program that came over from the state Senate in February and was in ...

West Virginia recently witnessed a heated debate in the House of Delegates over a bill that sought to allow video lottery retailers to advertise. House Bill 3154 was ultimately rejected ...

The West Virginia ... implications of loosening vaccine requirements, leading to an outbreak, are substantial. “The cost of a measles outbreak is estimated at $33,000 per case (Pike, et al. 2020),” ...