Unvaccinated students in LA will be BANNED from classes for 21 days amid growing measles outbreak California has recorded 38 measles cases this year - up from 11 this time last year The state abolished personal exemptions for vaccines in 2014 after a brief measles outbreak But the new rules will not have extended to teenagers and young adults
By Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:15 BST, 25 April 2019 | Updated: 21:16 BST, 25 April 2019
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College students in Los Angeles who cannot prove they've had the measles vaccine will be barred from their campuses, health officials declared.
California, which imposed some of the nation's strictest vaccination rules after a short-lived measles outbreak in 2014, is seeing a spike in cases, largely connected to people with measles landing in airports.
But the law, banning personal or philosophical reasons to skip a vaccine, came in too late for the state's teenage and young adult population, and will not have