Required shots for going back to school in Waynesville

(Waynesville)–The Waynesville School District is reminding parents and students that, to start the 2020-21 school year, Missouri law requires all incoming 8th-grade students to have two vaccines administered and incoming 12th-grade students to have one vaccine, unless they are exempted. Required vaccines that must be completed before a student enters 8th grade include T-dap, which protects kids from tetanus, Diptheria, and pertussis, and meningococcal, which protects kids from groups A, C, W, and Y, and needs to be given between ages 11 and 12, and again at 16 years. The required vaccine that must be completed before a student’s senior year is Meningococcal B, which protects kids from meningococcal group B, administered by 2 shots given 30 days apart, given at 16 years or going into the senior year of high school. Students who will be living in close contact are at higher risk of becoming infected with Meningitis B.