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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
(WDNG) - The state Department of Public Health says some students in sixth through tenth grades will be required to have an up-to-date certificate of immunization against pertussis, or whooping cough. According to a Tuesday release, students 11 years-old and older entering sixth through ninth grade in the upcoming school are required to have a tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (or Tdap) vaccine.
The Tdap school requirement will reportedly go up by one higher grade each school year. By the 2016-2017 school year, sixth through twelfth-grade students will be required to have the vaccine. Tdap is used to prevent whooping cough, a bacterial disease which affected more than 200 people in Alabama in 2012. According to Assistant State Health Officer for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Mary McIntyre, 33 percent of those affected last year were school-aged children.
During the first six months of 2013, there have been 73 reported cases of pertussis.
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