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healths
CSULB
waits for tetanus immunizations
By Heather Clarke
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
National immunization
shortages have left Student Health Services at Cal State Long
Beach waiting for new shipments.
Health Services is currently in short supply of tetanus immunizations.
Larry Harvey, clinical coordinator at Health Services, said
they have been out for a long time, but new supplies are on
the way.
In the meantime, Health Services is sending students to the
Long Beach Public Health Department if they are not in immediate
need of the vaccine.
“Usually you get tetanus every 10 years. During the shortage,
if your 10 years were up, unfortunately you couldn’t get a
booster, but that’s been resolved,” Harvey said.
The Health Center currently has plenty of the Measles, Mumps
and Rubella, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis A vaccines, Harvey
said. Health Services is now on schedule with all of its vaccines,
he added.
The tetanus shortage began in 2000 from the decreased production
of the vaccine by the United States manufacturers, Wyeth Lederle
and Aventis Pasteur, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. The amount of tetanus distributed
nationally decreased from 2001 to 2002 by 40 percent.
In good supply, Health Services has a contract for a shipment
of the flu vaccine which will arrive no later than the last
week of November, a month earlier than two years ago, Harvey
said.
“We’re doing fine here. A lot of it is thanks to the Long
Beach Public Health Department,” Harvey said.
He explained that the LBPHD enables Health Services to provide
the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine for students 18 and
younger for free.
Tetanus immunizations are $2 at CSULB and $12 at LBPHD.
The CDC recently announced on its web site that tetanus is
no longer in shortage and the routine schedule for the vaccination
recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
may be resumed.
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Todd Leland/Summer
On-line Forty-Niner
Susan Li
and granddaughter Daria, cool off on a warm summer day at
a campus water fountain.
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