Originally published August 2 2005
Immunization rate exceeds federal goals
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A record high 81 percent of infants received all of their government-recommended vaccinations last year, according to the CDC. Wonderful: more children than ever are now being injected with mercury.
U.S. children are getting vaccinated at record high rates, with 81 percent of toddlers 19 months to 3 years old receiving the full recommended series, health officials said on Tuesday.
This is up from 79.4 percent last year and continues a steady upward climb, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
illustrate the tremendous progress we've made in preventing what were once common childhood diseases," said CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding.
"Most importantly, these results show that parents have high levels of confidence in our vaccination recommendations."
U.S. health officials have felt pressure from a few small but increasingly vocal groups who question the safety of childhood vaccines.
They first tackled the combined measles, mumps and rubella or whooping cough vaccine, and now blame a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal once used in vaccines for causing, among other things, autism.
Numerous official reports have absolved vaccines of causing damage to young children, but activists have won the backing of some members of Congress.
"In 2004, coverage for the 4:3:1:3:3 series, which includes four doses of Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (DTaP), three or more doses of polio vaccine, one or more doses of measles-containing vaccine, three or more doses of Hib vaccine which can prevent meningitis and pneumonia, and three doses of hepatitis B vaccine, increased to 80.9 percent, compared to 79.4 percent in 2003," the CDC said.
Most children are also getting newer vaccines against chickenpox and pneumococcal disease, the CDC's National Immunization Survey found.
More than 87 percent got the varicella vaccine, which protects against chickenpox, and more than 73 percent got at least three doses of the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, which protects against seven different strains of bacteria that cause pneumonia, ear infections and other types of infection.
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