As many as 578 elementary school students from Windsor and Essex County face possible suspensions this fall. “These are students with incomplete or out-of-date immunization records,” says Stacy Manzerolle, manager of the healthy schools department for the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit. “They may be missing a booster shot or they may be missing information from their records.” A total of nine immunizations are required for students, including: tetanus, polio, measles and mumps. Meeting the immunization standards has been a requirement for families dating back to provincial legislation that was first introduced in 1990, says Manzerolle. “Our mandate is to review the records and ensure children and infants have received their vaccines for preventable diseases,” she adds. “We want to make sure we do what we can to help people comply with this. In some cases, it’s just a situation where the family doctors just need to send the immunization records to the health unit.” (Windsor Star, Sept. 19)