Survey helps set baseline for teen vaccination
October 5th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
Washington — Adolescents were included for the first time in a large national survey on immunization rates, and the news is good and not so good depending on the vaccine in question.
More than 84% of teens had received three or more doses of the hepatitis B vaccine — in use for about 15 years — and 89% received two or more doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine — in use for decades. But only 11% received the Tdap shot, and about 12% were immunized with the meningococcal conjugate vaccine.
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