West-central Illinois school districts mostly appear to be keeping pace with the state's vaccination rates for schoolchildren, according to new data from Illinois Department of Public Health.
Despite a federal effort to reduce the number of vaccines required for children, new data show that immunization rates remain high among school-age children in Illinois.The measles vaccination rate is 96.8% throughout the state, according to data recently published by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).The panel uses data from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) collected from school districts across the state.Other parts o…