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Immunization policy sought
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said,
"If you can't find out whether or not you've had it (the vaccination), there's no medical danger in getting it again," he said.
getting it agile.
Yockey says that as many as 10 percent of KU students might not be immunized. Among those who have been immunized, 5 to 10 percent still can expect to come down with the disease.
"If the whole campus were immunized, we'd have about 2,500 at risk" he said. "Now we've got about 4,500 at risk."
"Most incoming students have been immunized; it's just getting them to prove it," Yockey said. "If we had the requirement by fall, we could say that in four years all students would be immunized."
4,500 4,500 To minimize the number of students at risk, Yockey said, KU officials have been working to make proof of immunization an enrollment requirement by next
The requirement is necessary, Yockey said, because many international students have never been immunized and many states do not have an immunization requirement. Kansas requires immunizations for children entering its public schools.
fall for incoming students.
"If every state had mandatory regulations, then ours would be academic, but that's at least 10 years away," Yockey said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that
James Strobl, director of student health services, Wes Williams, dean of educational services, and Yockey were ironing out a proposal for the immunization policy.
Yockey said he hoped to see the policy in place by the fall semester.
"One of the problems is if we have a policy like that, we have to have enforcement. That creates a lot of problems, like how do you deal with international students or people that have objections to any type of medical treatment," Ambler said.
"I wish we had it already in place so that the roughly 2,000 students not immunized would be protected," he said.
Measles spreading in Kansas City
by Candy Niemann Kansan staff writer
In Douglas County,it's mumps. In Kansas City, it's measles.
In Kansas City City, an epidemic of measles that has been spreading throughout the Kansas City area during the last month has health officials scurrying to get people immunized.
Rhonda Luther, a health program representative for the Jackson County Health Department, said that there had been 115 cases of the measles in Jackson County since the outbreak began.
No measles cases have been confirmed in Douglas County, but five cases are suspected.
Kay Kent, administrator and health officer for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said that the measles was even more contagious than the mumps and that the same vaccination was used for both diseases.
Several cases of the measles were suspected in eastern Kansas, but Cindy Wood, state epidemiologist for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that most were not the actual disease.
Because the measles is a more harmful disease than the mumps, calls that the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta receives concerning the measles outbreak will take precedence over the mumps.
tou was unrealistic for us to expect that with all of the traffic between the Kansas City and Lawrence area that we wouldn't have some cases of measles too," Wood said.
This means that the results of the mumps research they are doing in Lawrence could be delayed due to the Kansas City measles epidemic.
include fever, cough, watery discharge from eyes, runny nose and rash. The measles, like the mumps, is spread through saliva transmission, but is more contagious because the virus can also become airborne. Its vaccine, however, is thought to be more effective than the mumps vaccine.
Kent said that measles complications included ear infections in 7 to 9 percent of cases, pneumonia in one to six percent of cases, encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, in one of every 2,000 cases, and death in one of every 3,000 cases.
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Bradley Hersh, medical epidemiologist for the division of immunization of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said that the measles was a more serious disease than the mumps because people got sicker.
Residents permitted extra keys
by a Kansan reporter
Last semester, residents were limited to two free lockout keys, with a charge of $5 for each additional key.
In response to student complaints last semester, KU housing officials have changed their residence hallockout key policy in an effort to meet residents' requests.
This semester, the policy has been changed to allow five free lockout keys a resident, with the $5 fee starting with the sixth key.
"I feel we have really tried to work with the students on this," Jean Morrow, assistant director for residence life, said.
After housing officials experienced difficulties with an unrestricted lockout policy in the past, they made their policy restrictive last fall, Morrow said.
"When people would lose their keys, they wouldn't even bother to get their locks changed," Morrow said. "It was a responsibility issue for us. We elected to help them learn to keep their keys."
But representatives of the Association of University Residence Halls asked housing officials to change the policy after receiving complaints from residents.
With the new policy for the spring sercrester, housing officials will retain their policy of restriction, but residents will get three more free lockout keys before they are penalized.
"It's a lot fairer than just two," said Meaghan McDermott, president of Ellsworth Hall.
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