Estado de la erradicación del sarampión en los Estados Unidos
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s.d.1969
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The Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962 authorized the Public Health Service to give financial assistance for the benefit of carrying out improved immunization programs. Annual appropriations for this purpose have ranged from $8 million to 10.2 million a year. At the present time 105 immunization programs are under way According to the National Communicable Disease Center, which is responsible for administering the program, the percentage of children in the 1 to 4 age group who had received, between 1962 and 1965, the basic series of three or more of the DPT innoculations increased from 68 to 73.9 per cent (one million more). Similar figures indicated an increase in school immunization activities. Furthermore a steadily increasing number of children under one year of age are being immunized. The success of the oral poliomyelitis vaccination campaign was shown in the increase in the percentage of 1 through 4-year old children vaccinated between 1962 and 1963, which rose from 6 to 49.0 per cent, over seven million more pre-school age children In 1965 the Vaccination Assistance Act was amended to include measles vaccination. In early 1966 the National Communicable Disease Center started to supply live measles vaccine to state and local immunization projects. It had already increased its activities in measles surveillance, and marshalled its resources to encourage measles eradication programs ...(AU)
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Status of measles eradication in the United States
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