Opinion No. Oag 3-76, (1976)

GEORGE H. HANDY, M.D., State Health Officer Department ofHealth and Social Services

You advise that at the present time in Wisconsin there continue to be outbreaks of diseases which are preventable by immunization. In order to prevent future outbreaks of such diseases, you desire to identify those persons who are unimmunized, and to provide them with voluntary immunizations as recommended by the Department of Health and Social Services.

To facilitate identification of inadequately immunized persons, a pilot project designed to explore the feasibility of an immunization data system has been…