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Preventable Disease
Young Adults Unaware of Threat of Infectious Disease and the Availability of Preventive Vaccines
August 3rd, 2009
Young adults may have grown up in an era of information overload, but they have alarmingly little awareness of the risks of vaccine-preventable diseases and the need to keep up with vaccinations into adulthood, new data show. For example, 84 percent of Americans over the age of 50 know that tetanus causes lockjaw and that they need to get a tetanus shot every 10 years. By contrast, just 49 percent of young adults aged 18 to 26 are aware of that fact, according to a survey commissioned by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). "Unless all adults, and young adults in particular, get more savvy and keep up with recommended...
Source: Pharma Business Week (2009-08-03)
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