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Mar 30, 2009 8:08 pm US/Pacific

More Calif. School Kids Not Being Immunized

SAN GERONIMO (CBS 5) ― Most doctors urge parents to immunize their children. But a growing number of parents, who believe the shots do more harm than good, are sending their children to school without vaccinations for infections such as measles and mumps.

Data analyzed by the Los Angeles Times show parents in affluent areas are more likely to weigh the options of immunizations and exempt their children from the shots. Sonoma County's Sunridge Charter School in Sebastopol leads the Bay Area in number of exemptions with 76 percent.

In Marin County, more than half of the children are not immunized at the Marin Waldorf and San Geronimo Valley schools. At Waldorf of the Peninsula, nearly 73 percent of students are exempted.

But the numbers fall dramatically in the East Bay and Napa County, with a high of 30 percent at North Oakland Community School.

Since 1997, the number of children without the state-mandated shots has more than doubled. Local, state and national public health officials continue to say high vaccination rates will keep these childhood diseases at bay.

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