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April 13, 2001
“Immunization Blitz Stepped Up”
London Free Press (www.canoe.ca/londonfreepress)
(04/13/01) P.
A3; O’Brien, Jennifer
Health officials in London, Ontario, will use public
service announcements in an effort to influence the city’s high-risk youth
population to get vaccinated against meningococcal disease. One expert notes that less than 60 percent
of the target group has been vaccinated thus far. Five confirmed cases of meningococcal disease in the London area
prompted the campaign, which aims to vaccinate 40,000 adolescents and young
adults who attend high schools north of the south branch of the Thames and the
river west of the forks and college students at Fanshawe College and the
University of Western Ontario. Between
80 and 90 percent of high school students have been vaccinated, so the announcements
will be geared towards college students and other high-risk non-students,
according to London’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Graham Pollett.
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