CDC Issues 2008 Childhood Vaccination Schedules
Vaccine Schedules CDC site
The 2008 recommended immunization schedules for children 18 years and younger have been published in MMWR.
Among the changes from 2007:
The live attenuated influenza vaccine (FluMist) is now recommended for children as young as age 2.
The meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4) is recommended for high-risk children aged 2 to 10 years and all children 13 to 18 who haven't been previously immunized. (Routine MCV4 vaccination continues to be recommended for normal-risk children aged 11 to 12, as well as children through age 18 at increased risk for meningococcal disease.)
A new catch-up schedule advises that children aged 7 to 18 who received their first dose of the tetanus and diphtheria toxoids/tetanus and diphtheria toxoids and acelluar pertussis vaccine (Td/Tdap) before age 1 should be given four doses, with 4 or more weeks between the second and third doses.
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