Last Updated on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 10:02 PM
The passage of House Bill 475 during the 2006 regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly requires all local school districts that provide information at the beginning of the school year about immunizations, infectious diseases, medications or other school health issues to parents and guardians of middle and high school students (grades 6-12) to also include facts about meningococcal meningitis disease and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the same. To help districts and schools provide this information to families, the Kentucky Department of Education's Division of Nutrition and Health Services has developed a letter about meningococcal meningitis disease.
• What Is Meningococcal Disease?
• Cabinet for Health and Family Services