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Schedules Revised for Flu, Meningitis Vaccines
Date:1/11/2008

dorms, as well as military recruits, the statement said.

Schuchat said the meningococcal disease recommendation modifies and simplifies the previous recommendation for routine vaccination with MCV4 of children 11 to 12 years of age, teens before starting high school (approximately 15 years of age), and other people at increased risk.

"Our goal is routine vaccination of all children beginning at age 11 years. College freshmen living in dormitories are at increased risk of meningococcal disease and should be vaccinated with MCV4 before college entry, if not previously," Schuchat said.

The new schedule also clarifies and updates recommendations for use of pneumococcal vaccine, which protects against pneumonia. Healthy children 24 months through 59 months of age not completely vaccinated should receive one dose of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV4). Children 2 year of age and older with underlying medical conditions should receive pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV), the statement said.

More information

For more on vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, visit the CDC.



-- HealthDay staff



SOURCE: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, news release, Jan. 11, 2008


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