>>But why should someone -- an adult, specifically -- have to lie to avoid taking a shot the government thinks is a good idea? If the government wants to do an information campaign saying we think this shot is a good idea for you to get, and here's why, that's one thing. But making it a requirement to attend college? Humbug.
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>It's a public health issue, like requiring restaurant workers to wash their hands after using the bathroom. If the number of people immunized goes below a certain level, the system fails.
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>FWIW, college dorms are well-known as incubators of all kinds of diseases. (Get your mind out of the gutter-not just those. <g>) Even without it being the law, our docs pushed very strongly for my boys to have certain vaccines before they went off to school.
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>I'm curious, too, whether what Tracy posted is the law for all college students or for those attending a state college. IOW, is it the college's regulation and, in this case, the college happens to be the state? I know Yale definitely had some rules about what vaccinations we had to prove. (Can't remember for Amherst--it was too long ago.)
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>Tamar

All schools in the state:

http://www.ncpha.com/Documents/NCImmunizationLaws.pdf
http://ncrules.state.nc.us/ncac/title%2010a%20-%20health%20and%20human%20services/chapter%2041%20-%20epidemiology%20health/subchapter%20a/10a%20ncac%2041a%20.0401.html

Summary of State Regulations of Immunization in North Carolina:

Students attending a college or university, whether public, private or religious, are required by G.S.130A-152 to present a Certificate of Immunization or a record of immunization from a high school located in North Carolina. For out-of-state students, a Certificate of Immunization or high school immunization record indicating that the person has received immunizations is required to attend a college or university in North
Carolina.7 Refer to 10a NCAC 41a .0401 for dosage and age requirements for immunization

There is more listed for public K-12, etc on the same site...