Tuesday, August 2, 2011

What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disease & The Vaccine

Vaccine Awakening, July 18, 2011
by Barbara Loe Fisher

Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between two and 12 months old3,4 in addition to the two doses children already get at 11 and 16 years old.5 ...

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