- Originally published on March 13, 2020 2:15 pm Teams around the world — including at least two labs in the Mountain West — are racing to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus. A group at Colorado State University is working on ways to inactivate the virus, which is one option for developing a vaccine.
- Originally published on February 11, 2020 4:47 pm At a public hearing last year in Boise, Idaho, recent transplant Alicia Peterson urged lawmakers not to tighten vaccine requirements. “I, this last year, ripped my whole family from the only home I’ve ever known, which was California, for these very reasons,” Peterson said.
- Originally published on February 3, 2020 6:02 pm Updated at 6:00 p.m. A bipartisan group of legislators say they plan to introduce a bill aimed at increasing childhood vaccination rates in the state. They say the bill would require parents seeking a vaccine exemption for non-medical reasons to use a specific form.
- Originally published on December 19, 2019 3:21 pm Colorado’s poised to put the question of wolf reintroduction on the November ballot. One unanswered question is how the predators might affect the spread of chronic wasting disease, if at all. CWD is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that currently infects deer, elk, moose and reindeer.
- Originally published on December 11, 2019 3:32 pm Researchers from a number of states, including Idaho, Colorado and Nevada, have found that grazing does not help get rid of cheatgrass, a highly flammable weed. It’s thought that heavy grazing at certain times of the year could reduce cheatgrass and help native species bounce back, but