Sentence examples for precautionary vaccination from inspiring English sources

Health officials have ordered a precautionary vaccination program for 5,800 students and faculty and staff members at six Ohio schools after two high school students in Alliance died of bacterial meningitis.

B1 ARTS E1-10 DINING F1-12 SCIENCE/HEALTH Mass Vaccination in Ohio Health officials ordered a precautionary vaccination program for 5,800 students and faculty and staff members at six schools after two high school students in Alliance died of bacterial meningitis.

Despite the desire for precautionary vaccination, only 259 (62%) respondents who believed they were unvaccinated would accept smallpox vaccination if cases were reported in Australia.

This finding is similar to that of a US survey, which indicated a strong community desire for precautionary vaccination against smallpox (5 ).

In the US study, a similar proportion of respondents (63%) believed that smallpox cases had occurred in the past 5 years, but a greater proportion would accept precautionary vaccination (61%) and a slightly lower proportion (52%) would go to their own physician for diagnosis and care (5 ).

At Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles, Dr. Coleen Sintek, 51, a cardiac surgeon, and Dr. Marjorie Bernstein Singer, an oncologist, both argued against precautionary vaccinations, saying they believed there was enough time to vaccinate after an attack started.

Many public health experts say the precautionary vaccinations are necessary.

"Business is picking up," the mayor observed with open relief in the heart of this fretful community as state health officials prepared six high schools in the area for a precautionary program of vaccination against bacterial meningitis, a stealthy disease that took the lives of two local teenagers late last month and has infected a third.

21 Precautionary behaviours such as vaccination and hand washing with soap as well as behaviours to limit contagion when coughing and sneezing ('catch it, bin it, kill it') were also a focus of media reports and government publications.

Staff are also offered prophylactic rabies vaccination as a precautionary measure, even though New Zealand is free from rabies.

This finding may explain the general willingness to accept vaccination as a precautionary measure in the absence of a bioterrorism event (7 ).