Children and teens currently get 13 vaccines that protect them against 16 vaccine-preventable diseases, including DTaP, IPV (polio), hepatitis B, Hib, Prevnar 13, rotavirus, MMR, Varivax (chicken pox), hepatitis A, Tdap, HPV, MCV 4 (meningococcal vaccine), and influenza. Although that is a big increase from the number of vaccines that they were getting in the …
First approved in 2003 and very popular with pediatricians, parents, and children, it is recommended that FluMist not be used during the 2016-17 flu season.
Governor Mike Pence has said and done things that cast doubt about just how strongly he supports getting all of our children vaccinated. Pence lobbied against an Indiana bill whose goal was to increase low HPV vaccination rates in the state and allowed critics to change the Indiana State Department of Health’s evidence-based public health …
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