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Missed shots: adult vaccines.(part 2)(Industry Overview)

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| November 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One of the public-health system's least known and most deplorable failings is this: Each year, some 40,000 Americans die of diseases that could have been prevented by routine adult vaccines. That's the same number that die from traffic accidents annually. And while sustained private and public support has made near-universal child immunization one of the shining medical success stories of the past century, adult immunization has languished in sometimes fatal neglect.

"Even most physicians don't realize that the vast majority of vaccine-preventable diseases--and deaths--occur in adults, not children," says William Schaffner, M.D., chairman of the department of ...

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