http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx

Our high school is 14.4%, still awful. 98368, but type only 983 for the zip code and it gives the whole area. Worst with 983 is "Five Acre School Sequim 98382 36.50% "

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20150205/NEWS/150209992/clallam-county-health-officials-contact-people-known-to-have-met-man

Then there is the downtown Seattle and SeaTac one, people who got it from this guy should get sick Feb 1-15. Unrelated to the Disney cases.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/ap/washington/county-says-adult-with-measles-visited-2-seattle-l/nj4HP/

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/4e6217c9e351405295b59445ca11cc7e/WA--Vaccines-Washington

A Washington state lawmaker introduced a bill Wednesday that would not allow personal beliefs to be a sufficient reason to not vaccinate a child.

Rep. June Robinson, a Democrat from Everett, said she has 11 co-sponsors for the measure, which hasn't yet been assigned a number. Supporters include Rep. Eileen Cody, the chairwoman of the House Health Care & Wellness Committee.

Washington currently allows vaccination exemptions for medical, personal or religious beliefs. Robinson's bill would remove the personal belief allowance for an exemption.

Robinson, who works for Public Health Seattle-King County, said the philosophical exemption "just makes it too easy for parents to not think about the effect that they're having on the community."

"I think people really need a legitimate reason to send their kid to school and not have them vaccinated," she told The Associated Press. "They're putting the rest of the school, the rest of the community, at risk by doing that."

The Washington bill was introduced the same day California lawmakers introduced a measure that would require all school children to be vaccinated unless a child's health is in danger.

as to what our local school's policy is.......they have 3 boys ranging from K to 7. When I was growing up in the 50s in the NYC metro area, you couldn't register for school without proof of vacination. I don't know if that was state law or local policy, but it seemed to be a pretty universal requiremnt.

As a kid, I had the measles, german measles and chicken pox but never the mumps. It concerns me that so so many parents rely on a debunked single paper linking the MMR vacine to autism. The whole education system is in disaray....the dumbing down of the US. Something I'm sure the Koch brothers are pretty happy about.

The non and under vaccinated kids there are now quarantined at home, they put out a notice for people who were in the clinic the same day and exposed and now have a yellow measles tent out back to avoid having potential cases come into the clinic building. 1 person in my county is being tested and I fear what will happen with our 24% non-vx primary school.

I missed seeing this when you first posted.

I checked my own area and the highest non-vac rate is at one of the high schools at around 10-11%; the elementary schools were all very low, I think the highest rate for the younger kids was 5.6%.

It's pretty incredible that Port Angeles could be so high. No wonder they're having an outbreak!

I sure hope that examples like your town will change some minds of the parents who think that they're "protecting" their kids by not protecting them at all.

That high of a percentage is unbelievable in this day and age.

High school in PT is around 17%, can't remember the #, better than primary but still really scary.

who'd had contact with the first Clallam Co case. It sounds like that one school with the sick little girl is taking good precautions with the quarantines, but it's a bit late, if their rate is 16% un-vaccinated. Maybe this will be enough of a scare for all of them to get in line to have the MMR.

I did what you suggested up-thread and started searching all around the state to see just how badly unprotected our state's school kids are. It's pretty shocking and hard for me to believe. When my daughter started kindergarten, it was required to have proof of all her immunizations and I guess I just didn't notice when the state relaxed those rules.

What the heck is up with PT and holy cannoli... out in Sequim... 36.50%?? The alternative high school in my area was rated at 11.1% with the highest rate of all our schools, but after I got to thinking about it, I doubt there are even 300 students who attend that school (it's connected to Job Core), so it means maybe 30 teens in this little town are at risk. Just from that one school!

It seems the scariest rates are mostly found at independent private schools, but even so, didn't any of those parents ever hear the horrors of measles from the older people in their families?

I've not paid much attention so far to all of this measles talk going on, so thanks for bringing it up here.

(I'll bet that middle-aged guy over in Clallam County, the first confirmed case, and now the forty-something who's come down with the measles weren't paying attention, either.)

was discovered to not be strong enough. He had asked if he could simply get a booster but the clinic said check his levels first which leads me to wonder if they are now having a run on the vx locally. PDN (peninsula daily news) says the local public health clinic has been getting many coming in, but the paper now charges for online access and I've read what they allow this month, too tired to clear my cookies and cache to read the full article.

It seems the extremes are not vxing, ultra righties and lefties, all those "alternative" people unlike my type of alternative person. I have heard all too often "we had measles parties when we were young" (or substitute "there were...you" for the younger set) with blank looks when I tell them that was German Measles/rubella, not the very dangerous Hard Measles/rubeola. Too many do not understand that this is a different sort, that they are different diseases rant rant rant rant...

Her fever got so bad my folks had to give her an ice bath in the tub. They had a quarantine sign hung on our front door, too.

To this day, we still kid her that she got brain damage from that virus, and it really did screw up her lungs and eyes. She had to get glasses to start school as just a tiny girl. My mom kept blankets hung over all the windows in half the house, even after she got better, cause the light made her eyes hurt.

The scariest thing to me is that I don't think that I ever got them. I was sure exposed, but I never got any rash or fever. Every story that my mother ever told about that disease was only about my brother and sis, how sick they were; not a word about me having them.

I know a few young "new ager" types (didn't want to type that earlier, lest it might offend someone) who have the absolute oddest theories on child rearing, schooling, medicine, and lots of other stuff that makes even me look normal. I am a definite eccentric but basic common sense tells me that you should never fuck around with a deadly virus.

To me, it's at least a hopeful sign that they're running short on the MMR, if what you're wondering is true. That means that maybe people are waking up and getting their kids taken care of now. Who ever dreamed that we'd have to worry about measles in 2015?