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Monica Z. Knight, Director of the Bureau of Disease Control and Environmental Health
with the Mobile County Health Department, talks this week with a WKRG television
reporter about the number of students in Mobile County who haven't been vaccinated
because of religious or medical reasons. There are 36 such cases in Mobile as of February 2015.
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MOBILE, Ala. -- As the number of cases of measles continues to climb across the U.S. this week, media outlets in Mobile have been looking to the Mobile County Health Department to answer questions about how many students in public and private schools in the area are exempt from having age-appropriate childhood vaccinations because of medical or religious reasons.
While no cases of measles have been reported in Alabama in 2015, other states in the western U.S. have seen cases of the childhood disease that can lead to other serious health conditions.
In Alabama, some 92 percent of school-age students have received their needed vaccinations, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
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