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Article: U.S. National Infant Immunization Week Targeted Children Who Lack Vaccinations.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- May 22, 2001
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2001 MAY 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
More than 900,000 American children are not routinely immunized, the consequence of which may be a revival of nearly eradicated diseases, say University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physicians.
Allaying the fears of parents about vaccine side effects and motivating and educating others to have their children routinely immunized was the purpose of National Infant Immunization Week, which ended April 28, 2001.
Widespread childhood immunization in the past decades has freed parents from fear. Polio, whose frequent outbreaks caused panic only 50 years ago, is now a distant memory in the ...