Vaccine Info
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Childhood vaccination schedule                                    Adolescent vaccination schedule

There is a recommendation that all teens 11-13 or in high school get MENACTRA (to prevent meningitis) and that all girls 11 and up get GARDISIL (to prevent cervical cancer). 
See http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/11teens8.pdf

There is a new recommendation that everyone older than 4 get a chicken pox booster (unless they have had the pox already)

There is a new Tetanus booster that also protects against pertussis (whooping cough) for children 11-13 years old.

Hepatitis A vaccination is strongly recommended for our state for age one and up.

There is a lot of erroneous information about vaccines on the internet.  
See below for web sites with real info.

MMR does not cause autism !! see CDC web site explanation

DTaP does not cause autism  !!

None of our vaccines  contain thimerosal. 
There have been no cases of mercury poisoning from thimerosal containing vaccines !!

We do not use live DTP. 
We do not use live Polio vaccine

For information on vaccine preventable diseases, (to see what the actual diseases are that vaccines effect)
click here
: http://www.cispimmunize.org/ill/ill_main.html

Please check these web sites for more information:
Center for Disease Control    
American Academy of Pediatrics

 

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