Posted on 12/14/2007 3:55:42 PM PST by Libloather
NJ requires flu shots for preschoolers
By LINDA A. JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
TRENTON, N.J. --New Jersey on Friday became the first state to require flu shots for preschoolers, saying their developing immune systems and likelihood of spreading germs make them as vulnerable to complications as the elderly.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Fred M. Jacobs approved the requirement and three other vaccines for school children starting Sept. 1, 2008, over the objections of some parent groups.
The new requirements "will have a direct impact on reducing illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in one of New Jersey's most vulnerable populations - our children," Jacobs said in a statement.
A health advisory board Monday backed the new requirements on a 5-2 vote with one abstention after parents said they worried about the safety of giving young children dozens of vaccine doses. Some also say they don't want government making their medical decisions.
Starting in September, all children attending preschool or licensed day care centers will have to get an annual flu shot, Jacobs said. That makes New Jersey the first state to require flu shots for preschoolers or older students, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
New Jersey also will require preschoolers to get a pneumococcal vaccine and sixth-graders to get vaccines against meningitis, which New Jersey already requires for college dormitory residents, and a booster shot against whooping cough, which in recent years has seen a resurgence blamed on waning potency of shots given to infants and preschoolers.
The four additional vaccines are recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups.
Some parents support proposed legislation that would give families a right to skip required immunizations by lodging a "philosophical objection," as some other states allow. The bill has been sitting in a committee without action for several years.
New Jersey does grant an automatic exemption on religious grounds and allows exemptions for medical reasons.
The new vaccines will be available for free for low-income families, and private insurers generally will cover the cost.
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NJ health department site: http://www.state.nj.us/health
New Jersey Alliance for Informed Choice in Vaccination: http://www.NJAICV.org
Oh, baloney. The state makes a mandate requiring the shots and there is a law requiring education. If you are not rich you have NO choices at all, this is not freedom.
Wow! That is fun. You had six kids plus. I do like big families because of the drama...yes good and bad. lol. My mom always told me that boys were easier (my parents have five boys and one girl) My sister was number thre. My sister and her did not get along until she had children which was 25 a little younger than your daughter but there is always hope. lol. Anyway take care and have fun this Christmas.
From the citizens, of course. However, we live in a republic not the “world of metmom.” Until you can change the laws to comport to your world paradigm, you are required to live within those laws, move, or pay the price fighting CPS and the IRS. The citizens have surrendered a portion of their sovereignty to obtain the protections and advantages of a community. In our own community, those powers are specifically delineated in the Constitution of the United States of America, the 26 Amendments to it, and in the various state constitutions. Therefore we have an elected government to which we entrust certain of our rights...in this case, the majority rules, like it or not.
Keep smoking that swill as the degenerative diseases increase. Mercury and the Monkey virus are life-threatening toxins.
Don’t bother arguing with the statists on here, tey can not and will not get it.
The flu vaccine is not even close to the same league of importance as vaccines such as diphtheria, polio, measles, tetanus, or pertussis. There is absolutely no comparison, and no compelling public health interest in compelling people to have flu shots.
Or he may have died from the adverse effect of shooting a foreign protein into his bloodstream.
ROTFLMAO!
Flu vaccinations do not cover all flu viruses. I believe that the last three years vaccinations in this country did not protect against the virus that popped up here in the states.
I have 7 kids, 5 girls (3 of the girls are teens) and we opted out...none of my girls are sexually active. Also there is a new HPV vaccine coming out which is why there was the advertising blitz with the first one...they knew there was a small window of opportunity before the competition could come out with its vaccine. My doctor suspects that the second will be better than the first.
God I remember those days every morning my mom with the teaspon of Walgreens Cod Liver Oil however
we just pretending like it was Mary Poppins and a spoon full of sugar. Amazing we hardly got sick with a cold
or the flu. To this day I still love the stuff
So much for freedom.
So they're going to require a vaccine that could be a s useless as the last three? And we're supposed to joyfully line up in compliance, giving up our freedom to say no to something to something that could be as useless as the ones that preceded it?
The woman that created this vaccine has said that this vaccine was never intended for girls as young as 11. There is no data on kids this age.
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