Routine "immunization visits" for adolescents targeting seven diseases urged by CDC, pediatrics assns.

Executive Summary

"ROUTINE" VACCINATION VISIT FOR ADOLESCENTS URGED by the Center for Disease Control & Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association. The recommendations will be published in the Sept. 13 issue of CDC's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, National Immunization Program medical epidemiologist Walter Williams, MD, told an Aug. 15 Washington, D.C. press conference convened by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.