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Daily Report: Health and Welfare, K–12

Incoming 7th-graders must be vaccinated for whooping cough

August 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
With a new school year on the horizon, state health and school officials are reminding families that all incoming seventh-graders must be vaccinated for whooping cough before returning to class. The requirement ensures that all middle and high schoolers in the state will be immunized against... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Whooping cough booster required for all 7th graders

October 6, 2010, 12:05 AM
Next school year, all students in junior high and high school will be required to get a whooping cough booster, a measure motivated by an ongoing epidemic of the illness like none seen since 1955. And in the 2012 school year and thereafter, students entering seventh grade will be required... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

How California state law helps whooping cough spread

July 26, 2010, 12:05 AM
Two quirks in California law run counter to the efforts of public health officials who are hoping to put a lid on the rapidly spreading whooping cough epidemic in the state. California is one of 11 states that do not require children to get a booster when they enter middle school, which is... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Are 10,000 kindergartners driving whooping cough epidemic?

July 20, 2010, 12:05 AM
Seven of the 12 California counties with the highest whooping cough rates also have above average rates of kindergarten students showing up to school with "personal-belief" vaccine waivers, a California Watch review of state data shows. The state’s emerging whooping cough... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

'Personal belief' vaccine waivers drive whooping cough cases in Marin County

June 25, 2010, 12:05 AM
Preliminary data from state public health officials show that the state’s richest and one of its poorest counties are leaders in the number of whooping cough cases, as cases of the illness are mounting to epidemic proportions. (See the data in a spreadsheet below.) The reasons for the... + read more
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