Unvaccinated students in LA will be BANNED from classes for 21 days amid growing measles outbreak 

College students in Los Angeles who cannot prove they’ve had the measles vaccine will be barred from their campuses, health officials declared.

California, which imposed some of the nation’s strictest vaccination rules after a short-lived measles outbreak in 2014, is seeing a spike in cases, largely connected to people with measles landing in airports.

But the law, banning personal or philosophical reasons to skip a vaccine, came in too late for the state’s teenage and young adult population, and will not have touched the millions of out-of-state students who come to LA to study.

Now that the state has recorded 38 measles cases this year – up from 11 this time last year – they are cracking down.  

According to a statement on Thursday from the LA County Department of Public Health, up to 100 students at UCLA have been ordered to stay in their residence for 21 days.

They believe some students at Cal State LA may also be ordered to stay in.

‘Both universities are assisting with the implementation of quarantine orders and determining how best to support students who must be quarantined and who live on campus,’ officials said in the statement. 

The move comes a day after the CDC revealed the rate of measles this year has hit a record-high since measles was declared eliminated in 2000, with 695 cases in less than four months. 

According to the latest CDC report, released on Monday, measles has been reported in 22 states this year. 

This week, officials in Southern California warned they expect more measles cases to come after confirming five in Los Angeles. And officials in Northern California warned of a potentially large outbreak after a man with measles went to the cinema in Redding, just north of Sacramento.