Vaccines for Children program marks 30 years of low-cost vaccines

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As flu and COVID-19 season begins, Austin Public Health is highlighting the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program, offering low to no-cost vaccines for children in need.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention launched the program in 1994 after a nationwide measles outbreak.

"You can see the success in that program, because in 2000, approximately a decade later, measles was deemed eradicated in the United States," said Chris Crookham, acting assistant director...