Province to launch measles 'catch-up' campaign, offer shots at schools, clinics

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Program will run from April to June, protecting as many kindergarten to Grade 12 students as possible before the end of the school year

VICTORIA — British Columbia has recorded 19 confirmed cases of measles this year and the province is responding by launching a measles immunization catch-up drive next month, aiming to vaccinate 95 per cent of the province’s youth.

Dix says the catch-up program will run from April to June, protecting as many kindergarten to Grade 12 students as possible before the end of the school year.

 

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