April 2025

Reader wonders if older vaccines still provide protection

DEAR DR. ROACH: With the resurgence of measles because of declining vaccination rates, should we be wary of the same happening with smallpox (which was also thought to have been eradicated)? And as an aside, is my ancient smallpox vaccination of 1952 still protecting me? What about my equally ancient (circa 1962) polio vaccine? -- C.C.ANSWER: At the time of this writing, the 2024-2025 measles outbreak is the largest in a few years and the first to include measles deaths in 10 years.

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Meyerhoff Annual Lecture brings guest scholars to FHSU to discuss two historic territorial expansion efforts

The Departments of History and Political Science and the Forsyth Library at Fort Hays State University hosted the 2025 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture in Malloy 115 of Palmer Hall on Thursday, April 3. The focus of this year’s lecture was on the driving ideologies and human impact of the territorial expansion efforts of Nazi Germany during World War Two and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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