ColumbiaMagazine.com
Printed from:

Welcome to Columbia Magazine  
 



































 
CIS students required to have Hepatitis A vaccine

By Calen McKinney, Public Information Officer
Campbellsville Independent Schools

Campbellsville Independent Schools' students will be required to have the Hepatitis A vaccination before starting school next month.

New regulations include one age-specific immunization requirement for the 2018-2019 school year.



All students are required to have a current certificate of immunization status to attend a public school such as Campbellsville Independent Schools.

Specifically, students in kindergarten through their senior year of high school will be required to have two doses of the Hepatitis A vaccine.

Also, students age 16 and older must receive two doses of meningococcal ACWY vaccine to attend school. If the first dose was received at age 16 or older, the second does is not required.

Children with Hepatitis A, which is a liver disease, often don't have symptoms. They can pass the disease along to others, however, including their unvaccinated parents or caregivers. Those individuals can get very sick.

The Hepatitis A shot protects a child from the disease and can keep the student from missing school.

For more information about the vaccine, contact the Taylor County Health Department, located at 1880 N. Bypass in Campbellsville, at (270) 465-4191.


This story was posted on 2018-07-11 03:00:27
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know.



 

































 
 
Quick Links to Popular Features


Looking for a story or picture?
Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com.

 

Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728.
Phone: 270.403.0017


Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.