Whooping cough vaccine to be required of California seventh-through-12th-graders
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 02:30
in Health & Medicine
Amid the state's worst pertussis epidemic since 1950, a new state law mandates that students get a booster shot before starting school in fall 2011.Next fall, seventh-through12th-grade students in California will be required under a new state law to get a whooping cough booster shot before starting school, health officials said this week.