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Pediatricians play key role in CDC vaccine achievement

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reached their immunization goals for 2-year-old children ahead of schedule, thanks, in part, to the conscientious reporting efforts of U.S. pediatricians, the agency said.

The Childhood Immunization Initiative, Healthy Kids 2000, set a goal that by the year 2000, 90 percent of 2-year-old children will have received their primary vaccination series. According to 1996 data compiled under the CDC's National Immunization Survey (NIS), 90 percent of the nation's 2 year olds had received one Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine, three each diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis vaccine (DTP), oral poliovirus vaccine and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (Hib), and 70 percent had received three or more doses of Hepatitis B vaccine.