Really just a curiousity...

Here in Ontario, Canada it's



They have also added a second dose of chicken pox and whooping cough for adults. (both optional). They have also combined MMR and Varicella if you chose to get the varicella.

It was slightly different than this for my daughter... they changed the schedule just before her first birthday. She had the second MMR at 18 months instead of at 4-6 yrs, and the DPT at 15 months. We didn't do varicella, I'm hoping that she will get it while she is still young, but if she doesn't get it by highschool we will vaccinate her.

Is immunization required for attendance at school or day care in Ontario ?

For children attending school in Ontario, a written immunization record or proof of immunization is required, by law, for diphtheria, tetanus, polio, measles, mumps and rubella unless there is a valid written exemption. Parents/guardians are required to provide this information to their local public health unit, and to update the information as necessary.

Children attending licensed childcare centres should be immunized according to their age and as recommended in the Publicly Funded Immunization Schedules for Ontario - 2009 or as current. You may contact your local public health unit for more information.

You may decide because of medical, religious or philosophical reasons not to immunize your child. In this case, you will need to provide a valid written exemption to your local public health unit. If the disease appears in your child's school or childcare centre, your child may have to stay out of school/childcare until the disease is no longer present

So whats it like where you live?

Vaccinations in the UK are more or less the same, we also have the injection for teenage girls at the age of 13yrs to prevent against cervical cancer ***

^That's the HPV vaccine.

Queenie xx

I think it's about the same, here, Texas. I'd have to check to be sure. My kids are all much older, college age. As such, my latest vaccination issue has been the meningitis for college students. Fortunately, everybody already had or managed to get their's. No problems.

Oh yeah, daughter is working for daycare centers teaching dance and had to be screened for TB. All clear! Last year, a TB scare occured in a town near us. Someone had a active case and a dozen or more people tested positive for exposure. Scary!

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The recommended schedule here is pretty much the same as LLD's, but newborns are now given HepB within 24 hours of birth then at 2 and 6 months. Varicella is recommended at 12 or 13 years for those non-immune (haven't had chicken pox yet!) and Pneumococcal is only recommended after 12 months for those with "specific medical conditions". Due to a recent spike in the number of whooping cough cases, the pertussis vaccination is recommended at 6 weeks rather than 2 months. www.health.sa.gov.au . . .

Our Ed Department doesn't require any immunisations but

The immunisation status must be recorded for all students under 18 years of age currently enrolled in a Tasmanian government school. Students do not have to be immunised in order to attend school, but their immunisation status must be noted. If a child is not vaccinated, he or she may be excluded from school if there is an outbreak of a vaccine preventable disease at the school.

www.education.tas.gov.au . . .

Here are the current New York State Requirements. I just glanced through it, but didn't see anything about exemptions. www.health.ny.gov . . .

Just for a little contrast, I pulled up the forms required by my grad school:

"In addition, students under age
26 years at time of registration are required by D.C. Law 3-20 to provide documentation of vaccination or immunity (lab test, if appropriate) from
Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. Students under 18 years must be vaccinated against polio."

www3.georgetown.edu . . .

Since boosters were mentioned in the other thread, thought I would reiterate that here. It is shown on the chart but not everyone knows that keeping their Tdap up to date is important. Here is a helpful link women.webmd.com . . . I actually had to look this stuff up when I got my most recent vaccination in September, because they gave me a Td shot and I was like OMG what happened to the ap? Why didn't I get that part? Haha.

I don't know if there are recommened and/or required ones. But there are a few parents who don't do any immunization at all!

They even trough chicken pox parties (for example) for their children. They believe that their children are healthier this way.

I'll be one of the crazy parents that would take their kid to a chicken pox party... not saying i will though

Just because there are parents that would take their kids to a chicken pox party does not mean they are automatically the types that would not vaccinate.

I was PISSED when they slipped in the chicken pox vax on my son with his other vaccinations at his last vax appointment. I'd done my research and found out that the shot only gives you a certain amount of years of immunity and then you have to keep re-upping for the rest of your life every so amount of years. I wanted him to get it naturally. If he didn't catch it by the time he was 9 I was going to get him vaccinated against it then. But, oh well, that's not going to happen now.

The thing that sucks is that there are so many kids that are vaccinated against chicken pox that there are fewer kids to get it from. I'm stalking fb to see if anyones kids get chicken pox. LOL.