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Article: VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROMOTES NATIONAL ADULT IMMUNIZATION AWARENESS WEEK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 27, 2007
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The Vermont Department of Health issued the following news release:
The Vermont Department of Health is promoting National Adult Immunization Awareness Week, Sept. 23 - Sept. 29, to raise awareness of adult immunizations and to encourage their use.
Additionally, the Health Department will begin a new program that will supply Vermont health care providers with vaccines that they can administer to their adult patients. The program will also work to promote adult immunizations and remove barriers to receiving vaccine, with the goal of improving immunization rates among adults.
The new program will begin in Bennington and will initially supply both the pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccine as well ...