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Vaccine-related issues - Promotion/education/PR

March 1-7, 2004

►March 3, 2004 - School Program Curbs Teen Suicide Attempts: Study - Reuters via Yahoo!

 ►March 2004 - The Impact of Reminder-Recall Interventions on Low Vaccination Coverage in an Inner-City Population - journal article (Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

►March 2004 - Effects of an Advocacy Intervention to Reduce Smoking Among Teenagers - journal article (Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

February 23-29, 2004

►February 27, 2004 - Royal Plea over Third World Vaccines Campaign - PA News via The Scotsman - "Queen Rania of Jordan made an impassioned plea today for help to save the lives of one million children in the poorest parts of the world...The glamorous royal urged donors to contribute to the work of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and the Vaccine Fund...Queen Rania, a mother of three, told guests at the luncheon she had asked her children about vaccinations...Her daughter had said jabs hurt, but then you get to wear a plaster...'To a child, wearing a Band Aid is enough to make it all worthwhile.'"

Comment:  It's easy to be so pro-vaccine when you are blissfully unaware of the 100,000+  vaccine-associated reactions, probably representing well over a million, which have been reported in the United States alone.  But is ignorance really bliss?  And can what you don't know still hurt you?

►National Infant Immunization Week April 25 - May 1, 2004 - Theme--Vaccination: An Act of Love - Love them, Protect Them, Immunize Them - CDC  

►February 25, 2004 - Texas nonprofit corporation launches vaccine information service - Infectious Diseases Society of America via www.eurekalert.org

February 16-22, 2004

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February 9-15, 2004

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January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

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January 19-25, 2004

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January 12-18, 2004

►Mass Vaccination Clinics - California Distance Learning Health Network - Thursday, March 18, 2004

January 5-11, 2004

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December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

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