CO: Tetanus vaccine shortage prompts school waiver

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Saturday, April 14, 2001 - A nationwide tetanus
vaccine shortage has prompted the Colorado Board
of Health to allow children to enroll in school
without receiving required DPT booster shots.

. . .

"It's definitely not a public health emergency yet,
but obviously we're all a little nervous," said Dr.
Mark Groshek, a Kaiser Permanente pediatrician in
Littleton.

Denver Post

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), April 14, 2001


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