“Vaccines Cycling to Teens: Adolescence Is the Time for Routine Prevention”

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The potential availability of four new vaccines for teenagers by 2010 could make the vaccine sector a bigger part of medical practice, according to Aventis Pasteur vice president of medical affairs Michael Decker. The diphtheria-tetanus vaccine might be joined by a whooping cough booster, a better meningococcal vaccine, a herpes inoculation, and a human papillomavirus vaccine. A subcommittee on adolescent immunization has been created by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to consider the development of such products and their eventual use. Two obstacles to greater teenager vaccine use are cost and parents’ wariness about inoculating their children against sexually transmitted diseases.

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