Kentucky judge rules against unvaccinated student

Published April 3, 2019 7:39pm ET



A judge in Kentucky ruled against a high school student who sued after he wasn’t allowed to play basketball because he did not get a chickenpox vaccination.

The student, Jerome Kunkel, 18, filed a lawsuit against the Northern Kentucky Health Department, claiming that he did not get the vaccine for religious reasons, a local Fox affiliate reported.

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