Government Told To Start Hib Boosters For All Infants

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GOVERNMENT TOLD TO START HIB BOOSTERS FOR ALL INFANTS 
27 January 2003
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have advised the Department of Health to begin a one-off, catch-up vaccination programme, immunising all children between 6 months and four years old with an extra dose of the Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccine. Latest figures from the PHLS have shown rates of Hib infection to increase four-fold in the under-fives since 2001, demonstrating a decline in immunity after receiving the vaccine. Dr Ramsay, immunisation consultant at the PHLS, believes that this campaign will act as a temporary holding measure and a routine booster may be added to the childhood immunisation schedule in the long term.
 
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