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The vast majority of young children in the United States continue to receive routine vaccines, a new report says.
Immunization rates for children between the ages of 19 and 35 months remained at or higher than 90 percent for the most routine diseases, according to a report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Less than 1 percent of young children were completely unvaccinated, the report says.
"Nearly all parents are choosing to have their children protected against dangerous childhood diseases through vaccination," Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, says in a statement.
Still, there are likely communities where high numbers of unvaccinated children can be found, the statement says. In 2008, there were outbreaks of measles, primarily in children who hadn't received the vaccine.
The report is based on data drawn from more than 17,000 households with children born between January 2006 and July 2008. It says coverage against polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B and chicken pox remained at 90 percent or higher, and that the rate of vaccination for hepatitis A and the birth dose of hepatitis B had increased significantly.
The rotavirus vaccine, which was licensed in 2006, had been given to 44 percent of the children. The percentage of those children receiving all three doses of the flu vaccine had decreased, reflecting a national shortage. That vaccine is now widely available, the report notes.
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9-19-2010 @ 9:01AM
Peg said...I think vaccinations are Http://www.childrenshealthsecrets.com so important, I'm glad they are being done so much again.
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9-19-2010 @ 10:08PM
Sandra Tucker said...The ordinary whole-cell pertussis vaccine is acknowledged to be the deadliest of all the vaccines. The US National Vaccine Compensation Program (which has paid out over $1 billion to vaccine-damaged children) obliges drug companies that produce vaccines to contribute to the program by paying an excise tax on each dose of vaccine, based on likely risk. In 1997, the latest figures available to WDDTY, the DTP vaccine was taxed at the highest rate per dose - $4.56 - compared with $0.29 for polio and $0.06 for DT (without pertussis). Only the MMR vaccine, at $4.44 per dose, approaches the DPT in ‘taxation’. This is tacit acknowledgement by the government that the pertussis vaccine carries the highest risk of them all.
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9-20-2010 @ 9:27AM
Mihir said..."The ordinary whole-cell pertussis vaccine is acknowledged to be the deadliest of all the vaccines."
source?
also, you fail to mention the whole-cell vaccine is not used in children < 7 years old as of 1997. which, surprise, is where your "latest" figures come from.
got any figures for the acellular vaccines that are used now? or are you bringing up the vaccine bogeyman?
9-20-2010 @ 11:07AM
Lily Shahar Kunning said...Vaccine bogeyman? How about some rational discussion about a topic that deserves it?
I just got off chat with a pregnant friend of mine in Wales. Her medical team and all of the UK do not vaccinate before 9 months AT ALL, as it is known to interfere with the passing of immunity from mother to child (both in utero and through breastmilk).
After 9 months, they vaccinate way more selectively than we do here in the states. Depends on how much the family travels, actually.
I hate the extremists on both sides of this debate. Especially the ones that think those that don't buy the "you must vaccinate your child on our schedule" people are deluded. Try using more respectful language.
Most of us investigating this issue and not buying the medical hype hook, line and sinker are actually doing RESEARCH.
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9-20-2010 @ 12:28PM
Anita said...Bravo Lily, very well said!