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The percentage of kindergarten students entering Washington schools without required immunizations dropped this school year to 4.5%, down from 6.0% for the 2010-2011 school year. Officials credit new rules making it more difficult to obtain exemptions
Davis will oversee PATH’s annual budget of $305 million, a staff of nearly 1,200, and a portfolio of projects based in PATH offices in 22 countries. He succeeds Dr. Christopher J. Elias, who left PATH to become president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
These pediatricians say they are worried about other patients in the waiting room, some of them too young to be immunized or with health problems that compromise their immune systems.
Getting an exemption is still possible but under a new law will require a visit to a health provider.
State’s child vaccination rates are one of the lowest in the nation with one in twenty kindergarteners being opted out of vaccines by parents — the highest vaccine exemption rate in the country.
Vaccinations aren’t just for kids any more: there’s battery of adult vaccinations should be part of your health care routine.
Children who have not been fully immunized have fallen ill in recent whooping cough and chickenpox outbreaks in the state.
Washington state health officials are urging parents to use the next few weeks to make sure their children had all the immunizations they need to attend school.
Only site locally where persons were potentially exposed is the Seattle Aquarium on April 3, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
People who are unvaccinated, pregnant women, infants less than 6 months-old and persons with weakened immune systems at higher risk
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