Vaccines

One in ten Seattle Public Schools students could be barred for lack of vaccination records

Seattle Public Schools said it is missing immunization records for about one in ten students. The district sent letters to about 5,700 students’ families Oct. 28th notifying them that they will be excluded from school beginning Jan. 8th if they still lack proof of the required immunizations, exemptions, or evidence that they are in the process of getting vaccinated.

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Seattle kids without measles vaccine or paperwork will be excluded from school

When Tracy Bennett, the head of Seattle Waldorf School, got word last spring that the state would make it a lot harder to forgo the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, she got to work.

Another measles outbreak spreads, this time in Seattle area

A seventh person was diagnosed with measles on Tuesday.