Seventh graders in New York State would be required to be vaccinated for meningitis, a deadly disease spread by saliva droplets, and could be excluded from school if they were not, under a bill passed this week by the State Legislature.
Beginning in September 2016, the bill would require students entering seventh grade to have received the meningitis vaccine, with a booster shot in the 12th grade. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends meningitis vaccination around that time, so many doctors have provided it.
Assemblywoman Aileen M. Gunther, a Democrat from Sullivan County who was the bill’s prime sponsor, said it had been passed after testimony from medical experts and from several people who had lost children to meningitis, or who had been afflicted with meningitis and suffered amputations as a result.
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