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Public Health Department recommending Resolution supporting the IZ Xtreme school based vaccination campaign that aims to protect all 6th and 7th graders in El Dorado County against several serious communicable diseases.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Resolution 123-2007.
FUNDING: Federal Vaccines for Children Program.
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Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost: There is no fiscal impact or net County cost associated with this agenda item.
Background: IZ Xtreme is a school-based vaccination campaign that aims to protect all 6th and 7th graders in El Dorado County against several serious communicable diseases.
These diseases, which include meningococcal disease, pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, tetanus and cervical cancer due to human papillomavirus, are largely preventable with new vaccines that are now recommended for children in the middle school years. The campaign will also provide the new FluMist nasal spray vaccine to protect against influenza in the coming winter flu season.
The new vaccines are highly effective in preventing disease from the strains of microbial agents they are designed to target. They are also very well-tolerated, with only mild, local reactions reported after tens of thousands of monitored doses, and they can be given simultaneously with no adverse effects and minimal discomfort.
Promotion of IZ Xtreme will begin when school resumes in August. Consent forms and information packets will be sent home by school districts to the parents of all 6th and 7th graders during September. Public health nurses will then provide vaccines to students in their schools during school time in the first two weeks of October.
Parents may choose not to have their children participate in the campaign for any reason. Onl...
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