Category: Polio
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
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.
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.
Seattle Times’ business reporter Kristi Heim reports on Bill Gates’ controversial initiative to push for polio eradication. Many health experts doubt the parasite can be rubbed out.
KPLU’s global health blogger Tom Paulson chimes in on the debate with a review of how the media has been covering the debate.
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