Guidelines

Agencies Take Initiatives To Increase Immunizations

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 23rd, 1996

The National Council of Adult Immunization sent letters to a group of university presidents in September 1996 urging mandatory prematriculation immunization of college students.

The letter, entitled "Recommendations for an Institutional [Prematriculation Immunization Requirement]," includes guidelines for the following vaccines: "... tetanus-diphtheria; MMR; measles; mumps; rubella; tuberculosis; hepatitis B and varicella."

An MMR Vaccination Action Group has launched a separate initiative to "... [incorporate] second-dose measles requirements in state laws and/or public health regulations," the National Council of Adult Immunization said.

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