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California looks to tighten exemptions for measles vaccinations02:05 SACRAMENTO, Calif. --California lawmakers are proposing legislation that would require parents tovaccinate all school childrenunless a child's health is in danger, joining only two other states with such stringent restrictions. ...
Thebill, which was drafted in response to recent outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough, eliminates the "personal beliefs" exemption that currently allows parents in California not to vaccinate their children before enrolling in public or private school. “I have very profou...
At least two dozen cases of measles have been reported in a West Texas county with one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the state. All of the confirmed cases there involve unvaccinated residents. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician at Johns Hopkins, joined CBS News to...
also allows for vaccine exemptions. Note that this resource is for educational purposes only and may not reflect the most recent changes in any state requirements. Always check with your state’s Department of Health, Department of Education, or local school for current vaccination requirements. ...
urging all states to eliminate nonmedical vaccine exemptions, writing that such exemptions are “inappropriate for individual, public health, and ethical reasons.” As it stands,all but three states— Mississippi, California, and West Virginia —still allow philosophical and/or religious exemptions. ...
The state of California permits medical exemptions and, until 2016, PBEs to immunization requirements for school entry. A PBE exemption request may be accepted if parents or guardians hold genuine beliefs that conflict with the practice of immunization, regardless of membership in an established relig...
Nonmedical vaccine exemptions and pertussis in California, 2010. Pediatrics. 2013;132(4):624-630.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 15. Omer SB, Salmon DA, Orenstein WA, deHart MP, Halsey N. Vaccine refusal, mandatory immunization, and the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases. N Engl J Med. ...
In 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown signed astrict vaccine lawthat eliminated personal-belief or religious exemptions for older vaccines, allowing only medical exemptions. The law was crafted in the aftermath of declining childhood vaccination rates and a Disneyland measles outbreak that spread to seven o...