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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two college students. No one has every checked vaccine records. They attend college in PA. Why would it matter? Have you checked your child's high school rates?[/quote]

They really should.  Meningitis used to kill a lot of college students—it’s so great that there is a vaccine for it now.  Even with measles — if you have congregate living with hundreds of kids in dorms, even if they are all vaccinated a couple might  get sick.  If you have a bunch unvaccinated, it will spread like wildfire.  They should at least mandate it for people living in dorms.  [/quote]

Why? Care about your own grown adult child. Get vaccinated and keep your nose out of other peoples business. [/quote]

You do know that vaccines require herd immunity to really work, right? The measles vaccine is 95% effective. That means there is 1 out of 20 kids who are vaccinated who will still get measles if exposed to it. So yes, while I will make sure my kids are fully vaccinated before college, I would prefer not to send them to a dorm full of unvaccinated kids. We all know how much colds and stomach viruses spread like wildfire in college dorms. Would prefer that measles and meningitis not do that.[/quote]

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