Kelly Haight, communications manager at NCDHHS states, “This requirement has been in the works since May 2014, when the North Carolina for Public Health approved an immunization schedule”.

Gov. Roy Cooper declared July as “Adolescent Immunization Awareness Month” to “bolster efforts to better protect our youth from the dangerous and often deadly disease meningitis” and “to increase public knowledge, acceptance and use of vaccines to protect children, preteens and teens against serious life-threatening diseases”.

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