Texas now requiring meningitis vaccination for all college students

Texas now requiring meningitis vaccination for all college students







Former presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed
into law new legislation that requires all college students, including
those living off campus, to get injected with a meningitis vaccine. The
new guidelines, which reportedly received bipartisan support, require
that all students under the age of 30 show either proof of vaccination
or a signed affidavit of exemption before being allowed to come to
class.

Effective beginning spring semester 2012 for all students enrolled at
both public and private colleges and universities across Texas, the
mandate expands a previous one enacted in 2009 that requires only
students living on campus to get the shot. And even though all students
still have the freedom to decline the vaccination as a matter of
conscience or for religious reasons, many of them are not being told
this by their schools, and are just going along with it.

Though the entire state of Texas had only 34 reported cases of
meningitis among young people between the ages of 15 and 29 in 2009,
Gov. Perry, the Texas Medical Association (TMA), and several state
senators expressed vehement support for the new bill, S.B. 1107, which
further expands the government's reach into the personal health choices
of Texans.

Authored by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth), S.B. 1107
is the companion bill to the earlier Jamie Schanbaum Act of 2009, which
was enacted beginning January 1, 2010, in honor of Jamie Schanbaum, a
University of Texas student who developed Meningococcal Septicemia that
ended up causing her to lose both her legs and all ten of her fingers,
according to reports.

But rather than continue to give students the option to evaluate the
facts and decide for themselves whether or not to get the vaccine, both
the Texas state government and the TMA have decided to force it on
everyone, despite the fact that the condition is extremely rare. The
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) also lists some very serious
reported adverse events associated with the meningitis vaccine that
include nerve damage, double vision, the deadly skin disease
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, and even death (http://www.medalerts.org).

The whole charade hearkens back to Gov. Perry's 2007 executive order
that mandated Gardasil vaccines for all Texas schoolgirls. This mandate
was later repealed, but it appears as though Perry and the other
vaccine-pushers in Texas are up to their dirty work once again trying to
force chemical injections on the young people of Texas.

You can see who voted for and against S.B. 1107 by visiting:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us




Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/034953_meningitis_vaccines_Texas_college_students.html