No comments.
Unvaccinated Students Pose Risk, L.A. Times Investigation Shows
posted: March 29th, 2009 04:42 pm |
0No Comments
Harbor View Elementary and Harbor Day School are at low-risk for outbreaks of childhood diseases like mumps and measles, but several other local schools are at-risk because parents have opted not to vaccinate their children, according to an investigative report published in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.
According to records obtained and analyzed by the Times, two of 62 Harbor View kindergarten students in 2008 were exempt from vaccinations, a 3.2 percent exemption rate that puts the school at a low-risk rating for an outbreak.
Harbor Day School had zero out of 44 kindergarten students exempt from vaccinations that same year — another low risk, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lincoln Elementary, however, was at-risk for outbreak with a 7.4 exemption rate (six of 81 kindergartners without vaccines in 2008).
Other local at-risk schools include Andersen (5.7 exemption risk with three of 53 kindergartners) and Eastbluff (17.8 exemption risk with 8 of 45 kindergartners).
Anneliese’s School in Laguna Beach, Waldorf School Of Orange County in Costa Mesa and St. Margaret’s Episcopal in San Juan Capistrano also were listed as among the at-risk schools in Orange County.
Read the complete article here.
