Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/ask-dr.-sue-immunization-news/5012963/
Vaccines are powerful tools in disease prevention, but immunization, one of the best ways to prevent infectious diseases (especially for children in group care where close contact increases the risk of spread of disease), must be as safe as possible. The United States Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics acted swiftly to revise the routine immunization recommendations in July. These changes were too important to wait for the routine update of the schedule that takes place every January.For the rest of 1999, checking whether children are up to date requires merging at least two pieces of information. First you must understand how to use the 1999 routine immunization schedule. Then you need to merge the July 1999 changes with the 1999 routine schedule.
Free Device: 1999 (4th) Edition of the Immunization Dose Counter
The routine immunization schedule is complex, but to help apply the schedule to individual children's immunization records, you can obtain the newest (4th) edition of a device called the Immunization Dose Counter. The 4th edition was published in May 1999 with an educational grant from the Merck Vaccine Division.
This device has a sliding panel with a dot to line up the child's age. ...