title: Notes from the field: Outbreak of pertussis in a school and religious community averse to health care and vaccinations--columbia County, Florida, 2013.
abstract: On August 30, 2013, the Florida Department of Health in Columbia County was notified of a Bordetella pertussis laboratory-positive unimmunized child attending a local charter school (316 students from pre-K through 8th grade) in a large religious community averse to health care and vaccinations. Kindergarten immunization records showed that only five (15%) of 34 students were fully immunized with pertussis-antigen-containing vaccines. In seventh grade, only one (5%) of 22 students was fully immunized with pertussis-antigen-containing vaccines. Of the children who were not fully immunized in these two grades, 84% had religious exemptions.
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Matthias
authors: Cristina
authors: C
authors: Dusek
authors: Scott P
authors: SP
authors: Pritchard
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Rutledge
authors: Paula
authors: P
authors: Kinchen
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Lander
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001886:Bordetella pertussis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D010567:Pertussis Vaccine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012574:Schools; D014611:Vaccination / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014917:Whooping Cough / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D010567:Pertussis Vaccine