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Vaccinations part of school preparations
Published Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The Alabama Department of Public Health reminds parents that Alabama law requires children to be up to date on their vaccinations prior to attending school.
Vaccinations currently required for school entry are polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. Hib (Haemophilus Influenzae Type b) vaccine is required for daycare as well. Parents need to present documentation on the Certificate of Immunization or “blue slip” to the school showing the month, day and year that their child received their vaccinations.
A new requirement for students entering the seventh grade for the 2008-2009 school term is that they show documentation either of the date they had chickenpox disease or the date they received the varicella vaccine that protects against chickenpox.
Adolescents and college students should be vaccinated, also. Parents should make sure their adolescents and young adult children heading off to college are up-to-date on MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), varicella, and hepatitis A and B vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommends that preteens and adolescents get the following immunizations:
• Tdap, which provides protection against pertussis (whooping cough) along with tetanus and diphtheria.
• Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4), which protects against invasive meningococcal disease.
• Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for preteen and adolescent girls to prevent cervical cancer in adulthood.
Contact your medical provider or your local county health department for more information.
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Posted by donnymhayes (anonymous) on August 6, 2008 at 10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Parents should have a choice about what gets injected into their children...the state has no right to force this on us.
Concerned parents should read this FDA report:
http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/s......
The vaccines your children are forced to take are produced under questionable quality control conditions. Note the multiple mentions of 'contaminants' in the vaccines. This is one report. Google and you'll find more. Remember the FDA approved VIOXX and KETEK. We all remember the heart attack deaths related to VIOXX. Ketek is still approved, even though the FDA admits that fraud occurred (an Alabama doctor was prosecuted for her role in faking drug trials) and even after many confirmed cases of liver damage, some leading to death.
Vaccines can be a very good thing, but only if we can trust that the vaccines are produced in a 100% sterile environment, are tested thoroughly and don't include harmful preservative agents.
You owe it to yourself to ask questions about drugs being forced on your children by the government.
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