Pediatrics

AAP Issues Year 2000 Immunization Schedule

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 10th, 2000

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued its year 2000 childhood immunization schedule for the United States.

The statement represents unified recommendations from the AAP, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. These recommendations are issued by all three organizations in January of each year.

Specific changes in the schedule over the course of the past year include: suspending use of the rotavirus vaccine; using inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) for all four doses of the vaccine instead of the oral polio vaccine (OPV); and...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2000-01-10)

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