DeKalb County to Check Student Records for Measles Vaccination

With 137 schools and about 100,000 students, DeKalb County Schools is the third largest in the Atlanta area, and in light of the recent measles case in Georgia, officials will visit each school to make sure students are vaccinated.

Doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston recently treated an infant who contracted the potentially deadly measles virus, Patch previously reported.

Although the case was not involved with DeKalb County, the school district is one of several in the metro-area that will review students’ immunization records.

“We have teams that are going out into the schools and they are actually checking the permanent files of the students to make sure that those documents are present,” Dr. Vassane Tinsley with the DeKalb County School District told WSB TV.

DeKalb schools say the exact immunization percentage in the district is unknown, but estimates it to be in the high 90th percentile, according to the news outlet.