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Monday, June 8, 2009

Some Kids Not Immunized In School Year

A new report shows Georgia schools enrolled children who were missing required vaccinations or having no records at all in the 2008-09 school year. Data obtained by the Atlanta Journal Constitution shows across the state, more than 8-thousand kindergartners and 6th graders missed key vaccine doses when audits were done last fall-already a few weeks into the school year. Those vaccines are required under Georgia’s school immunization law. The records show more than 60 schools were not properly immunized.

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