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New York School District Plans Mass Suspensions to Enforce Newly Required Vaccine Please call today to stop the threatened mass suspensions of middle-school students in Bellport, NY to force the use of the Glaxo Boostrix® and Sanofi Aventis Adacel® diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (Tdap) booster shots. The South Country Central School District has announced that middle school students who have not received a newly required Tdap booster will be suspended on January 8. Suffolk County will have a mobile unit at the school on Monday, January 7th to inject students. A Suffolk County Health Department official confirmed this morning that 104 students could be suspended. As of September, 2007 middle-school students in NY are required to have a Tdap booster, in addition to the four shots already required to enroll in kindergarten. The district’s action is part of a growing trend to use draconian measures to enforce vaccine regulations in lower-income and minority school districts. South Country School District is approximately half minority students and has one of the highest poverty rates of any school district in Suffolk County. Last month parents in largely African-American Prince ’s County, land were threatened with arrest if they could not produce documents to verify that their children had received all required vaccines. Last year parents were arrested by police in Washington,

DC based on the claims of school districts that vaccine records were not up-to-date. In 2006 New York became the first state to require the Tdap. There have been no reported cases of tetanus or diphtheria in New York for at least ten years according to State Department of Health records yet tetanus and diphtheria boosters are required as well. According to the Suffolk County Department of Health 62 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) were reported in 2004 (the most recent year available) but does not keep records on the ages of people who have

contracted pertussis. According to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System more then 1,400 adverse events from Tdap have been reported including 71 that were classified as serious. Actual adverse events are estimated to be 10 to 100 times greater than reported according to Kessler, MD, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration under Presidents H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In the two election cycles (2004, 2006) preceding the decision to

add the Tdap booster to the mandatory schedule Glaxo and Sanofi Aventis contributed $289,517 to candidates in state elections in New York. Please call the following decision makers today and ask them firmly but politely to reconsider mass suspensions as a method to maximize vaccine use. Suffolk County Supervisor Steve Levy, (631) 853-4000 State Senator Caesar Trunzo, (631) 360-3236, Assemblymember Eddington (631) 207-0073 County Legislator Jack Eddington, (631) 854-1400

Dr. A. Agruso, Superintendent of Schools, (631) 730-1510, sagruso@... C. Miglino, Jr. School Board President, (631) 286-4718 bhac54330@... Carl Moodt, School Board Vice President, (631) 286-9009, moodt@... Joe Cipp, School Boardmember, (631) 803-265, jlcipp@... Toni Huffine, School Boardmember, (631) 803-0362, zum12@... Jankowski, School Boardmember, (631) 803-2772, jjmm2002@... M. Kirk, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2074, kmjkirk@... n McKenna, School Boardmember, (631) 286-0643, marian.mckenna@... Barbara Schatzman, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2924, bgs527@... Vaughan, School Boardmember, (631) 286-6335, arkybellport@...

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since this is a long list-who would you recommend as the most important persons to contact for those of us out-of-staters? maurine Gilmore <yogilmore@...> wrote: New York School District Plans Mass Suspensions to Enforce Newly Required Vaccine Please call today to stop the threatened mass suspensions of middle-school students in Bellport, NY to force the use of the Glaxo Boostrix® and Sanofi Aventis Adacel® diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (Tdap) booster shots. The South Country Central School District has announced that middle school students who have not received a newly required Tdap booster will be suspended on January 8. Suffolk County will have a mobile unit at the school on

Monday, January 7th to inject students. A Suffolk County Health Department official confirmed this morning that 104 students could be suspended. As of September, 2007 middle-school students in NY are required to have a Tdap booster, in addition to the four shots already required to enroll in kindergarten. The district’s action is part of a growing trend to use draconian measures to enforce vaccine regulations in lower-income and minority school districts. South Country School District is approximately half minority students and has one of the highest poverty rates

of any school district in Suffolk County. Last month parents in largely African-American Prince ’s County, land were threatened with arrest if they could not produce documents to verify that their children had received all required vaccines. Last year parents were arrested by police in Washington, DC based on the claims of school districts that vaccine records were not up-to-date. In 2006 New York became the first state to require the Tdap. There have been no reported cases of tetanus or diphtheria in New York for at least ten years according to State Department of Health records yet tetanus and diphtheria boosters are required as well.

According to the Suffolk County Department of Health 62 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) were reported in 2004 (the most recent year available) but does not keep records on the ages of people who have contracted pertussis. According to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System more then 1,400 adverse events from Tdap have been reported including 71 that were classified as serious. Actual adverse events are estimated to be 10 to 100 times greater than reported according to Kessler, MD, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration under Presidents H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. In

the two election cycles (2004, 2006) preceding the decision to add the Tdap booster to the mandatory schedule Glaxo and Sanofi Aventis contributed $289,517 to candidates in state elections in New York. Please call the following decision makers today and ask them firmly but politely to reconsider mass suspensions as a method to maximize vaccine use. Suffolk County Supervisor Steve Levy, (631) 853-4000 State Senator Caesar Trunzo, (631) 360-3236, Assemblymember Eddington (631) 207-0073 County Legislator Jack Eddington, (631) 854-1400 Dr. A. Agruso, Superintendent of Schools, (631) 730-1510, sagrusosouthcountry (DOT) org C. Miglino, Jr. School Board President, (631) 286-4718 bhac54330aol Carl Moodt, School Board Vice President, (631) 286-9009, moodtoptonline (DOT) net Joe Cipp, School Boardmember, (631) 803-265, jlcipp@... Toni Huffine, School Boardmember, (631) 803-0362, zum12optonline (DOT) net Jankowski, School Boardmember, (631) 803-2772, jjmm2002optonline (DOT) net M. Kirk, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2074, kmjkirk n McKenna, School Boardmember, (631) 286-0643, marian.mckennaprudentialelliman Barbara

Schatzman, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2924, bgs527@... Vaughan, School Boardmember, (631) 286-6335, arkybellportaol

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Call Today to Stop Mass Suspension In NY School for Mandatory

New Vax

New York School District Plans Mass Suspensions to Enforce Newly Required

Vaccine

 

Please call today to stop the threatened mass suspensions of middle-school

students in Bellport, NY to force the use of the Glaxo Boostrix® and Sanofi

Aventis Adacel® diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (Tdap) booster shots.

 

The South Country Central School District has announced that middle school

students who have not received a newly required Tdap booster will be suspended

on January 8. Suffolk County will have a mobile unit at the school on Monday,

January 7th to inject students. A Suffolk County Health Department official

confirmed this morning that 104 students could be suspended.

 

As of September, 2007 middle-school students in NY are required to have a Tdap

booster, in addition to the four shots already required to enroll in

kindergarten.

 

The district’s action is part of a growing trend to use draconian measures to

enforce vaccine regulations in lower-income and minority school districts. South

Country School District is approximately half minority students and has one of

the highest poverty rates of any school district in Suffolk County. Last month

parents in largely African-American Prince ’s County, land were

threatened with arrest if they could not produce documents to verify that their

children had received all required vaccines. Last year parents were arrested by

police in Washington, DC based on the claims of school districts that vaccine

records were not up-to-date.

 

In 2006 New York became the first state to require the Tdap. There have been no

reported cases of tetanus or diphtheria in New York for at least ten years

according to State Department of Health records yet tetanus and diphtheria

boosters are required as well. According to the Suffolk County Department of

Health 62 cases of pertussis (whooping cough) were reported in 2004 (the most

recent year available) but does not keep records on the ages of people who have

contracted pertussis.

 

According to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System more then 1,400

adverse events from Tdap have been reported including 71 that were classified as

serious. Actual adverse events are estimated to be 10 to 100 times greater than

reported according to Kessler, MD, the former head of the Food and Drug

Administration under Presidents H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

 

In the two election cycles (2004, 2006) preceding the decision to add the Tdap

booster to the mandatory schedule Glaxo and Sanofi Aventis contributed $289,517

to candidates in state elections in New York.

 

Please call the following decision makers today and ask them firmly but politely

to reconsider mass suspensions as a method to maximize vaccine use.

 

Suffolk County Supervisor Steve Levy, (631) 853-4000

State Senator Caesar Trunzo, (631) 360-3236,

Assemblymember Eddington (631) 207-0073

County Legislator Jack Eddington, (631) 854-1400

Dr. A. Agruso, Superintendent of Schools, (631) 730-1510,

sagruso@...

C. Miglino, Jr. School Board President, (631) 286-4718

<mailto:bhac54330@...> bhac54330@...

Carl Moodt, School Board Vice President, (631) 286-9009,

<mailto:moodt@...> moodt@...

Joe Cipp, School Boardmember, (631) 803-265, <mailto:jlcipp@...>

jlcipp@...

Toni Huffine, School Boardmember, (631) 803-0362, <mailto:zum12@...>

zum12@...

Jankowski, School Boardmember, (631) 803-2772,

<mailto:jjmm2002@...> jjmm2002@...

M. Kirk, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2074, <mailto:kmjkirk@...>

kmjkirk@...

n McKenna, School Boardmember, (631) 286-0643,

<mailto:marian.mckenna@...>

marian.mckenna@...

Barbara Schatzman, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2924, <mailto:bgs527@...>

bgs527@...

Vaughan, School Boardmember, (631) 286-6335,

<mailto:arkybellport@...> arkybellport@...

 

 

 

 

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Good Question. The guys at the top of the list. County Supervisor

(like a Mayor) Steve Levy, State Senator Caesar Trunzo, State

Assemblymember Eddington, County Legislator Jack Eddington

adn The Superintendent Dr. Agruso.

> New York School District Plans Mass Suspensions to

Enforce Newly Required Vaccine

>

> Please call today to stop the threatened mass suspensions of

middle-school students in Bellport, NY to force the use of the Glaxo

Boostrix® and Sanofi Aventis Adacel® diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus

(Tdap) booster shots.

>

> The South Country Central School District has announced that

middle school students who have not received a newly required Tdap

booster will be suspended on January 8. Suffolk County will have a

mobile unit at the school on Monday, January 7th to inject students.

A Suffolk County Health Department official confirmed this morning

that 104 students could be suspended.

>

> As of September, 2007 middle-school students in NY are required

to have a Tdap booster, in addition to the four shots already

required to enroll in kindergarten.

>

> The district's action is part of a growing trend to use

draconian measures to enforce vaccine regulations in lower-income

and minority school districts. South Country School District is

approximately half minority students and has one of the highest

poverty rates of any school district in Suffolk County. Last month

parents in largely African-American Prince 's County, land

were threatened with arrest if they could not produce documents to

verify that their children had received all required vaccines. Last

year parents were arrested by police in Washington, DC based on the

claims of school districts that vaccine records were not up-to-date.

>

> In 2006 New York became the first state to require the Tdap.

There have been no reported cases of tetanus or diphtheria in New

York for at least ten years according to State Department of Health

records yet tetanus and diphtheria boosters are required as well.

According to the Suffolk County Department of Health 62 cases of

pertussis (whooping cough) were reported in 2004 (the most recent

year available) but does not keep records on the ages of people who

have contracted pertussis.

>

> According to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

more then 1,400 adverse events from Tdap have been reported

including 71 that were classified as serious. Actual adverse events

are estimated to be 10 to 100 times greater than reported according

to Kessler, MD, the former head of the Food and Drug

Administration under Presidents H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

>

> In the two election cycles (2004, 2006) preceding the decision

to add the Tdap booster to the mandatory schedule Glaxo and Sanofi

Aventis contributed $289,517 to candidates in state elections in New

York.

>

> Please call the following decision makers today and ask them

firmly but politely to reconsider mass suspensions as a method to

maximize vaccine use.

>

> Suffolk County Supervisor Steve Levy, (631) 853-4000

> State Senator Caesar Trunzo, (631) 360-3236,

> Assemblymember Eddington (631) 207-0073

> County Legislator Jack Eddington, (631) 854-1400

> Dr. A. Agruso, Superintendent of Schools, (631) 730-1510,

sagruso@...

> C. Miglino, Jr. School Board President, (631) 286-4718

bhac54330@...

> Carl Moodt, School Board Vice President, (631) 286-9009,

moodt@...

> Joe Cipp, School Boardmember, (631) 803-265, jlcipp@...

> Toni Huffine, School Boardmember, (631) 803-0362, zum12@...

> Jankowski, School Boardmember, (631) 803-2772, jjmm2002@...

> M. Kirk, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2074, kmjkirk@...

> n McKenna, School Boardmember, (631) 286-0643,

marian.mckenna@...

> Barbara Schatzman, School Boardmember, (631) 286-2924,

bgs527@...

> Vaughan, School Boardmember, (631) 286-6335,

arkybellport@...

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