State Faces New Headache Over Vaccinating FLDS Children

A state requirement that children in foster care be inoculated against disease has prompted another round of headaches for lawyers who represent 464 children taken from a polygamist ranch last month. Most children are immunized against diseases including chicken pox, polio, measles and smallpox before they start school. But many, if not most of the children of the Yearning For Zion ranch, owned and operated by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, have not been immunized. All are homeschooled on the 1,700-acre ranch north of Eldorado.
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Posted by Editor at May 9, 2008 08:38 AM