Sentences with phrase «where vaccine rates»

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The reason the oral vaccination is used in the vaccine campaign is it provides intestinal immunity that is so crucial in stopping the person - to - person transmission spread in settings where you might have a high transmission rate of the virus — like in tropical areas or areas with suboptimal sanitation.

In the latest trial, reported in the October issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, the vaccine prevented 70 % of severe diarrhea cases on American Indian reservations, where incidence rates are higher than in the general U.S. population.

The highest HPV vaccine initiation rate was among girls living in communities where the majority of the population was Hispanic (69 percent), and the lowest rates were among girls living in majority non-Hispanic white communities (50 percent) and non-Hispanic black communities (54 percent).