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College students are particularly susceptible to measles because they have not been vaccinated against the disease or because they have been immunized with the earliest forms of the vaccine, which are now wearing off, according to officials at the Centers for Disease Control.
The Massachusetts state regulation, signed by Governor Michael S. Dukakis on May 30, specifically requires that students entering institutes of higher education in the state show proof of immunity against measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases such as tetanus and diphtheria, said Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, Director of the...
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Cost to Harvard from the law would be minimal, because the state would probably provide the vaccine free of charge, Wacker said. The University currently offers free immunizations, he added.
Measles on campus is no coincidence, says CDC Epidemiologist John Frank. Most children under college age have been immunized against the disease, and most adults have a natural immunity because they were exposed in their childhood, when measles epidemics were common. But people born between 1957 and 1967, which includes...