Chico Unified School District

Children must be immunized for:

State law requires students beginning Kindergarten have all required immunizations.  Students missing immunizations will not be able to start school until we received these records.

Sixth-graders must have the Tdap immunization (for whooping cough). This is required before the beginning of seventh grade.

The Tdap immunization can be received through your child’s health care provider.  Local pharmacies also offer the shot.  If you feel your student may qualify for free immunizations through the Vaccines for Children Program, contact Butte County Public Health for an appointment. 

If your child has already received the Tdap immunization, please sent a copy of the shot record to your child's school.

Head lice is common in Preschool and elementary aged children. Please reference Chico Unified School District's Board Policy regarding Head Lice - View BP 5141.33

Novel CORONAVIRUS (NcOv)

 

According to the Butte County Public Health Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring an outbreak caused by a novel (new) coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Chinese authorities identified the new coronavirus, which has resulted in hundreds of confirmed cases in China, including cases outside Wuhan, with additional cases being identified in a growing number of countries internationally. The first case in the United States was announced on January 21, 2020. There are ongoing investigations to learn more.

 

Patients with confirmed 2019-nCoV infection have reportedly had mild to severe respiratory illness with symptoms of: fever, cough and shortness of breath. CDC believes at this time that symptoms may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 after exposure.

 

Norovirus is a common cause of viral gastroenteritis ("stomach flu") outbreaks, but it is not related to flu or influenza.

 

  

Measles is a highly contagious virus that lives in the nose and throat mucus of an infected person. It can spread to others through coughing and sneezing.

Resource Page - Measles

The measles virus can live for up to 1 hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. If other people breathe the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then touch their eyes, noses, or mouths, they can become infected. Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected. However, measles does not survive more than 1 hours outside the human body.

Infected people can spread measles to others from four days before through four days after the rash appears.

Measles is a disease of humans; measles virus is not spread by any other animal species