It is National Immunization Awareness Week – and it’s a topic already front and centre with many local families.
Another round of suspensions are being handed out for Grey Bruce students with incomplete immunization records.
Jody Kroeplin, from the Vaccine Preventable Disease Program with the Grey Bruce Health Unit, says about 60 secondary students still don’t have all their shots.
The Immunization of School Pupils Act requires documentation of immunization or an exemption form filed with Public Health.
Kroeplin says to mark National Immunization Awareness Week, the public health unit is focusing on day nurseries this year.
She says they will be educating the young children about immunizations and the process involved, helping them understand that the shots protect them and the people around them.
Kroeplin says we need to remember how important immunizations are.
She reminds us vaccine preventable diseases were leading causes of death at the beginning of the 20th century, but they now account for less than 5 per cent of all deaths.