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Student Immunity Requirements of Health Professional Schools: Vaccination and Other Means of Fulfillment—United States, 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Brady L. Miller ,
Megan C. Lindley ,
Faruque Ahmed  and
Pascale M. Wortley
Brady L. Miller*
Affiliation:
Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Megan C. Lindley
Affiliation:
Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Faruque Ahmed
Affiliation:
Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Pascale M. Wortley
Affiliation:
Immunization Services Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-52, Atlanta, GA 30333 (ion2@cdc.gov)
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US health professional schools with student immunity requirements for recommended vaccines frequently accept evidence of immunity other than vaccination but vary widely on the types of evidence that are accepted. Exemptions for nonmedical reasons and, to a lesser extent, medical reasons are often obtainable by a student-written document.

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 9 , September 2011 , pp. 908 - 911
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2011

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