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West Virginia lawmakers voice concern over state vaccine monitoring

By JIM McCONVILLE

The Journal

MARTINSBURG, W.Va.  — West Virginia State Delegate Chanda Adkins, R-Raleigh, and Sen. Patricia Rucker, R-Jefferson, contacted state health officials to voice concerns about the state’s vaccine monitoring system after learning the federal Department of Health and Human Services hasn’t submitted required reports on vaccine safety to Congress the last two years.

In a July 18 letter to the state DHHR, Adkins and Rucker asked DHHR officials to provide the state Legislature evidence it’s performing due diligence on vaccine safety reporting and adverse event monitoring in light of the federal DHHS’s admission that it has not been monitoring vaccines.

The letter was sent to Bill Crouch, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Resources, Rahul Gupta, state health officer and commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health and Gov. Jim Justice.

Read the entire article: http://www.journal-news.net/news/local-news/2018/07/lawmakers-voice-concern-over-state-vaccine-safety/

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