Requirements & Laws
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State Requirements
- State Immunization Laws Database
This tool contains results from a 50-state legislative review of laws requiring assessment of vaccination status and vaccine administration for healthcare workers and patients/residents. - www.immunize.org/laws/ (exit)
Lists vaccine-preventable diseases, and then shows state mandates on immunization requirements - View all...
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Exemptions & Consent Forms
Given the increasing number of states allowing philosophical exemptions to vaccines, at some point we are going to be forced to decide whether it is our inalienable right to catch and transmit potentially fatal infections
- Life-cycle of an Immunization Program
- Fatal Exemption: Relationship Between Vaccine Exemptions and Rates of Disease
Dr. Paul Offit's Commentary as published in Wall Street Journal (Jan. 2007) - Are VISs "informed consent" forms?
Note: Check with your local or state health department for your state medical consent law to determine if there are any specific informed consent requirements relating to immunization.
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Content last reviewed on April 17, 2007
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases