Low child vaccination raises school outbreak risk in The Hague
The Hague says child vaccination is "at a worryingly low level", which raises the risk of infectious disease spreading in schools.
No neighbourhood in The Hague meets the World Health Organization's vaccination norm for children. In Transvaal, only about half of children are vaccinated.
The municipality says the vaccination rate is "at a worryingly low level" and concludes that this raises the risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases. "This creates an increased risk of the spread of infectious diseases within schools," it says.
The WHO says a group is sufficiently protected when 95% have been vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella. For diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B and RS virus the norm is 90%.
The municipality says the number of jabs given lately looks "more stable" than the decline in earlier years.
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