NVIC Defends Vaccine Exemptions

January 30, 2012

The Colorado Board of Health will hold their final hearing on February

15th on whether or not to adopt a new rule that would mandate healthcare

workers get an annual flu vaccine. There is NO religious or personal

exemption in the current version of the rule, despite the fact that these

exemptions are available to schoolchildren. Time is running out and

comments must be received by Feb. 1st, 2012. Thursday Virginia's House

began legislative measures to repeal the state's HPV mandate. Currently

residents of West Virginia can only obtain a medical exemption for

vaccination. A new bill introduced would expand exemptions to religious

and conscientious reasons. Parents in Kansas and Vermont are also

fighting for vaccine exemption rights, along with those in Florida and

Mississippi.

Information Release, National Vaccine Information Center

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