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Adults largely don’t need tetanus, diphtheria vaccine boosters, researchers say

Adults largely don’t need tetanus, diphtheria vaccine boosters, researchers say

With certain exceptions, US adults could safely forego tetanus and diphtheria booster vaccination—if uptake of childhood vaccines stays high, an Oregon Health & Science University–led research team wrote yesterday in Clinical Microbiology Reviews. Discontinuing the 10-year doses could save about $1 billion each year, said the researchers, who compared the impact of the tetanus and diphtheria vaccination programs to that of …

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