Tennessee Department of Health reminds parents now is the time to get back-to-school immunizations

Keeping your child’s vaccinations up to date helps keep schools Safe

Nashville, TN – Frequent news reports about whooping cough and measles, diseases long thought vanquished by vaccines in the US, serve as a reminder of the importance of getting back-to-school immunizations for your child now.

In Tennessee, children enrolling in school for the first time and all children going into seventh grade must provide schools with a state immunization certificate before classes start as proof they have had all the immunizations necessary to protect them and their classmates from serious vaccine-preventable diseases. [Read more]

Tennessee Department of Health says Recent Mumps Cases a Reminder of the Continuing Need for Vaccination

Nashville, TN – A small cluster of three cases of mumps associated with international travel was recently reported in Tennessee. These cases provide a reminder of the importance of the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine.

Although mumps is rare in the United States thanks to high levels of immunization with the MMR vaccine, it is still common in other parts of the world. [Read more]