Global Vaccination Recommendations and Thimerosal
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Global vaccination recommendations and thimerosal.
Vaccines remain one of the most effective ways to prevent infectious disease and deaths globally. Universal childhood immunization provides herd immunity against many infectious agents and is a policy that has achieved dramatic reductions in common childhood illnesses. Thimerosal, which contains ethyl mercury, has been used as a preservative in vaccines to prevent contamination of multidose via...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-1760