Current immunization practices

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What protection from tetanus does your patient with a bleeding cut need? When should the toddler who was given immune globulin at 14 months of age receive measles vaccine? How safe is it to give your egg-allergic patient measles or mumps vaccine or your pregnant patient influenza vaccine? If you are not sure, you will want to read this article (including part 2, which begins on page 199). In it, Dr Gillum and his colleagues answer these and many more questions that will help you decide when, why, and whom to vaccinate.