--- title: University of California Requiring Students Get Measles Vaccinations description: The announcement comes as California deals with a virulent measles outbreak canonical: https://time.com/3699789/university-california-measles-shots-vaccines/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-06T23:20:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:57.707Z article:section: Health og:title: University of California Requiring Students Get Measles Vaccinations og:description: The announcement comes as California deals with a virulent measles outbreak og:url: https://time.com/3699789/university-california-measles-shots-vaccines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1fc9ee29c27a5a8/69877e1e524fc038cadec5bb/73909004.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: university of california vaccination og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: University of California Requiring Students Get Measles Vaccinations twitter:description: The announcement comes as California deals with a virulent measles outbreak twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1fc9ee29c27a5a8/69877e1e524fc038cadec5bb/73909004.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # University of California to Require Measles Shots for Students > Sponsored content. 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TIME's Science Cop Jeffrey Kulger takes on the misinformation coming from opponents of childhood vaccinations_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Feb 6, 2015 11:20 PM UTC  UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus, April 17, 2007 in Berkeley. The University of California system has mandated that all incoming students be vaccinated. UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus, April 17, 2007 in Berkeley. The University of California system has mandated that all incoming students be vaccinated. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Feb 6, 2015 11:20 PM UTC The University of California will require incoming students to be vaccinated for measles and other diseases beginning in 2017, as the current outbreak that began at Disneyland continues to spread. The new policy has far-reaching implications, with nearly 250,000 postgraduate and undergraduate students across University of California’s 10 campuses. “The University of California will require incoming students to be screened for tuberculosis and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017,” the UC said in a [statement](http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-plans-require-vaccinations-incoming-students). The policy has been in the works for a year, but it is being announced at a critical time for vaccinations. California is dealing with a rash of measles infections, a highly contagious disease that began at Disneyland in December and leaving more than 100 people ill across 14 states since then. Health experts have attributed the California outbreak to increasing numbers of parents’ decision not to [immunize their children against measles](http://time.com/3696139/measles-outbreak-2015-cdc-says-vaccinate/). Parents’ fears that vaccines cause autism stem from a single paper in the late 1990s, which today has been debunked as false. Highly infectious diseases like measles and mumps can be particularly virulent on college campuses, where students live in close quarters. A mumps outbreak at Ohio State University last year [infected](v) 447 people. ## Transcript So, our recent report claimed that a 2004 study withheld a link between vaccines and autism in African American boys. No surprise, the anti- vaccine crowd considered this a big win. But again and always, they're wrong. Here's why. [ MUSIC ] First, the subjects excluded from the study had no birth certificates available. Meaning data on their mother's age, race and more could not be confirmed. And that information was vital for the work the investigators were doing, More important, the people criticizing the research make the familiar mistake of confusing associated with causation. While it's true that the study did find a slightly higher rate of autism among some kids vaccinated between 24 and 36 months of age, it's almost certain that those children were already autistic and were vaccinated later as part of a basic health requirement for attending special education program [ MUSIC ] programs. If you join the Army and get a mandatory crewcut before basic training, you don't then conclude that military service causes baldness. Finally, the narrator of a disgraceful web video spreading the rumors about the study is Andrew Wakefield. The British researcher whose fraudulent 1998 paper falsely linking vaccines to autism got the entire got the entire anti- vaccine mess started. Wakefield has had his license to practice medicine revoked in the UK. And is hardly in a position to be offering opinions on anything at all. So for the billionth time, vaccines are safe, effective and vitally important. Rumor mongering, on the other hand, can kill. 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