Article: Rising immunization rate earns CDC award.

Byline: Brent Jones

Mar. 7--The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention honored Baltimore health officials yesterday for significantly improving the city's immunization rate by targeting children in impoverished neighborhoods.

Baltimore received the CDC's "Most Improved" award, with 82.8 percent of city children 19 to 35 months old having received vaccines against a variety of diseases in 2004. With dozens of 3- to 5-year-olds in attendance as evidence of the program's success, Baltimore's health commissioner, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings announced the recognition at the Health Department's East Baltimore-area ...

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