The Acceptance of three simultaneous vaccine injections recommended at 12 months of age

Authors

  • Jeffrey N Hanna Tropical Public Health Unit, PO Box 1103, Cairns Queensland 4870
  • Ruth C Bullen Tropical Public Health Unit Network, Queensland Health, Cairns, Queensland
  • Debora E Andrews Tropical Public Health Unit Network, Queensland Health, Cairns Queensland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2004.28.55

Keywords:

multiple vaccine injections, simultaneous vaccinations, meningococcal C conjugate vaccine

Abstract

Since January 2003, vaccination with Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine (MenCCV) is recommended at 12 months of age, at the same time as the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines. Most (83%) of a cohort of 751 children in north Queensland born in January 2003 received the three injectable vaccines simultaneously. Of the 122 children who had not received MenCCV with the other two vaccines, 88 (72%) had received it by 18 months of age. The median age of receipt of MenCCV in the children who had received the three vaccines simultaneously was 12.3 months, whereas the median age in the children who had not received it at the same time as the other two vaccines was 14.0 months. This study suggests that non-simultaneous vaccination puts children at-risk of receiving MenCCV late, or not at all, and has implications for the introduction of universal infant pneumococcal vaccination program, starting in January 2005. Commun Dis Intell 2004;28:493–496.

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31/12/04

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Hanna, Jeffrey N, Ruth C Bullen, and Debora E Andrews. 2004. “The Acceptance of Three Simultaneous Vaccine Injections Recommended at 12 Months of Age”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 28 (December):493-96. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2004.28.55.

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