UPDATED NEW JERSEY IMMUNIZATION REGULATIONS

 

New Jersey has some new immunization regulations which you should be aware of.

 

The administrative rules will require children attending licensed child care centers and preschools to receive annual influenza vaccinations and a pneumoccocal vaccine beginning in September 2008.

 

Also, children born after January 1, 1997 and enrolled in grade six or transferring into a New Jersey school from another state or country will be required to receive a booster dose of the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine (Tdap) as well as one dose of meningococcal vaccine.

 

 

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