Posted on 11/14/2007 8:32:37 AM PST by my3centseuro
The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George's County students who failed to get needed vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children do not meet the state's immunization requirements, county officials said yesterday.
The threat of legal action is a last resort after months in which Prince George's has struggled to get its 131,000 students immunized for chicken pox and hepatitis B, as mandated by the state.
More than 2,300 students have not been immunized and have been barred from attending schools, almost two months after a Sept. 20 deadline for meeting the requirement.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it's got to get done," Prince George's State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D) said at a news conference in Upper Marlboro.
"I'm willing to move forward with legal action." School officials have made calls, sent letters and conducted home visits to make arrangements for free appointments for the needed shots.
But often the students' addresses and phone numbers have been outdated, making contacting them difficult. Other students have received the vaccines but failed to get the necessary booster shots.
The school system turned to the justice system as a final option and received the backing of Circuit Judge William D. Missouri, the county's administrative judge, and Circuit Judge C. Philip Nichols Jr., who handles juvenile matters.
"This is an educational crisis," said R. Owen Johnson Jr., chairman of the school board. "This is a public health and a children's rights issue."
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You are foul.
“By your logic, I can simply disprove your contention that vaccines are dangerous in any way by pointing out MY kids had none, and got ALL their vaccinations.”
I mean MY kids had no complications.....
It’s those vaccines I had as a kid, messing up my concentration......
“You are foul.”
You are a fool. Get your kids their shots.
The problem is that the “crippling disease or worse” that you site, is often a result of vaccine side effects. And when it occurs, which isn’t often I do admit, it is typically very severe and life changing (or life ending).
I don’t blame the vaccines I had as a child for my poor grammer, its just poor editing skills.
Hell no. Also, my girls will not be getting the teen STD shot.
“There are others I think its wise to get and some that I think is just over kill.”
Agreed - especially on Chicken Pox....
“The only point I am opposed to in the vaccine issue if the making it mandatory part.”
Well, if it were entirely voluntary, I think we can agree that many many kids would go unvaccinated.
There is some role for government here, I reluctantly admit.
There aren’t huge profits in vaccines in the US, so I reject that as a motive....
“I dont blame the vaccines I had as a child for my poor grammer, its just poor editing skills”
I’m just teasing about that.......I got your point...but maybe vaccines cause spelling errors???.
Your point about side-effects is one worth discussing. Complications for, for instance, the polio vaccine are vanishingly small, but the complications for getting the disease are common enough to create a huge societal burden.
To worry about something bad that risks one in a million, so you subject yourelf to something just as bad that risks one in a thousand is just plain ignorance.
Wrong again, FRiend. Getting the disease does not actually confer long-term immunity. Shingles is adult-onset chicken pox. Lots of people get it who had chicken pox as kids.
And Hep B is not only something IV drug users and fags get. Anyone who is exposed to infected blood or fecal matter can get it, like at your local fast food joint, grocery store, or school.
Ingestion won't do it, and ordinary hand-shaking or even saliva won't, either. For HepB, it has to be directly from one person's blood to anotherhence the specialized nature of the infected population.
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