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More than 25,000 Ottawa students have been warned to get their immunization records up to date or face suspension.

The students at the city’s four public school boards and private schools received notices in recent weeks from Ottawa Public Health. Beginning in January, students attending French elementary schools whose immunization records are still not updated will be suspended. Suspension notices will go out to students at other boards and private schools in subsequent weeks.

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Suspension notices have become a routine part of the school year in Ottawa for thousands of students since Ottawa Public Health began increasing immunization surveillance in 2015 with yearly reviews of all students’ records.

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Routine childhood immunization against infectious diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella are mandatory for school children under Ontario law unless their parents are granted exemptions for religious, philosophical or medical reasons.