Over 96 percent of the exemptions were for personal reasons, with an additional 3.1 percent a religious objection and 0.7 percent due to medical issues.
Though a case of measles has not yet been reported in the state, the concern is that it will only be a matter of time before the disease arrives.
Additionally, 4.2 percent of students from kindergarten to 12th grade had not received a second dose of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine, which is recommended by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention to generate a higher immunity rate. All five categories examined in the report are below the recommended 96 percent mark set by the National National Institutes of Health to develop herd immunity — the point at which it becomes difficult for an infectious disease to easily spread from person to person.
"All of us must choose to immunize," he added,"Not only to protect our own children but also, even more importantly, to immunize to protect infants and children of others, our friends and neighbors who are too young to be immunized or have lost their immunity due to other diseases."
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