A bill doing away with personal exemptions to vaccination for kids is getting support from some local health officials.
Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz of Oshkosh wants to make the change. It would keep the medical and religious exemptions in place.
Menasha Health Director Nancy McKenney tells AM Fox Valley that having high vaccination rates provides greater protection for people that can’t get them.
Appleton Public Health Director Kurt Eggebrecht says a growing number of Wisconsin parents are taking advantage of the personal exemption loophole. He says Wisconsin’s rate of children without immunizations is twice the national average.
Wisconsin has not seen an outbreak of measles yet this year. But 22 other states are reporting cases of the highly-contagious disease.
