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2004 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 20% of U.S preschool children lack required immunizations, placing them and their classmates at risk for illness, according to a new study based on the federal National Immunization Survey.
Whether the children were in day care made no difference in immunization rates, said Carol A. Stanwyck, PhD, and two colleagues from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose work appears in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
"School-entry legislation in the United States has been a critical factor in keeping coverage rates high among kindergartners and first-graders," Stanwyck said. "Immunization regulations related to childcare facilities have not had a similar impact."
Current school laws have resulted in vaccination rates of more than 95% among those older children. But similar laws or regulations in all states and the District of Columbia applying to childcare settings have not proved so successful.
For children 19-35 months old, the rates were only 76% for those in childcare and 73% for those never in childcare. The difference between those in or not in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Preschoolers not getting vaccinated on time.