Health Minister Adrian Dix says over 37 thousand more kindergarten to Grade 12 children were fully immunized between April and June as part of the province’s catch-up campaign in the wake of 29 cases of measles this year in B-C. He says a large number of students in Grades 10, 11 and 12 made their own decision to get vaccinated if they’d had just one dose of the measles vaccine or none at all. Dix says that’s a positive development, and speaks to the value and need for education with parents and children. Two separate doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine provide immunity against the infectious disease, the first at age one and the other between the ages of four and six.
