Author: WLWT Digital Staff / Source: WLWT
BURLINGTON, Ky. —
Following a chickenpox outbreak at a Northern Kentucky school, a high school senior’s request to go back to class has been denied.
An outbreak of chickenpox at Assumption Academy, a small Catholic school in Walton, is putting the vaccine used to keep kids healthy under the microscope.
“This vaccine has been used for decades,” Dr. Gary Marshall said. “Hundreds of millions of doses have been given.”
Marshall is an infectious diseases expert. He’s defending the actions of the Northern Kentucky Health Department. Officials with the agency told Assumption Academy that students who haven’t received the chickenpox, or varicella, vaccine need to stay home until the outbreak is over.
That decision prompted a court challenge by senior Jerome Kunkel whose mother signed a form objecting to the vaccine based on religious grounds. The form includes the following language: “In the event that the county health department or state health department declares an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease for which proof of immunity for a child cannot be provided, he or she may not be allowed to attend…
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