Asheville Citizen-Times reports:
Health officials are concerned that Buncombe County parents are using a religious exemption to avoid getting their children vaccinated at a rate more than seven times the North Carolina average.
Figures compiled by the N.C. Immunization Branch show that last school year 4.6 percent of the county’s kindergartners had the exemption, compared with 0.64 percent statewide.
Buncombe’s rate is the highest in the state and has grown steadily from just 1 percent in the 2000-01 school year. ...Read the full article
Health officials are concerned that Buncombe County parents are using a religious exemption to avoid getting their children vaccinated at a rate more than seven times the North Carolina average.
Figures compiled by the N.C. Immunization Branch show that last school year 4.6 percent of the county’s kindergartners had the exemption, compared with 0.64 percent statewide.
Buncombe’s rate is the highest in the state and has grown steadily from just 1 percent in the 2000-01 school year. ...Read the full article
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