Major changes in 2007 pediatric vaccine schedule

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Major changes in 2007 pediatric vaccine schedule

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> Sheri

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> http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2007/01/03/eline/links/20070103elin027.

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> Major changes in 2007 pediatric vaccine schedule

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> Last Updated: 2007-01-03 12:31:31 -0400 (Reuters Health)

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> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued

> its annual recommended immunization schedules for children and adolescents

> in the United States -- these include extending the age range for

> influenza

> vaccination and giving the new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, the

> first vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, to girls between 11 and 12 years

> old.

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> The changes in the 2007 schedules, which were approved by the Centers for

> Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Family

> Physicians, include:

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> --Routine administration of oral live rotavirus vaccine to all infants at

> ages 2, 4, and 6 months. Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea

> in infants and young children and kills roughly 500,000 children a year

> globally. In the US, it affects 2.7 million children in an average year

> and

> 75 percent of children get diarrhea from rotavirus by their 5th birthday.

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> --Administration of a second dose of varicella (chickenpox) vaccine to all

> children between 4 and 6 years of age.

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> --Administration of the HPV vaccine to girls 11 to 12 years of age, with a

> catch-up vaccine given to girls 13 to 18 years of age.

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> --Annual influenza (flu) vaccination has been expanded to include children

> between 6 and 59 months of age. Vaccination is also recommended for close

> contacts of children between 0 and 59 months of age.

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> SOURCE: Pediatrics, January 2007.

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> Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

> Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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